This is a question in a weekly Guardian interview which always interests me. Do NSC have any stand out crazy purchases? Any Damian Hirsts out there? Anyone bought a bottle of wine for 20k? I don't, but I am nosey.
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Aside from a house or car what is your most expensive purchase?
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Phat Baz 68
Get a ****ing life mate !
- Apr 16, 2011
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My 27 inch I MAC best thing I've ever bought
El Sid
Well-known member
Wife. Priceless.
Ex-Staffs Gull
New member
Sofa. $8000 AUS and great it is too.
Ex-Staffs Gull
New member
Lining up a large spa/hot tub though and it will be most expensive
Probably holidays, a few choice bits of furniture & cameras.
French Seagull
Active member
Daughters on going Uni education thanks to the Tories putting the tuition fees up 300% ! 
champion7
fast and furious
Wife and 2 kids
Taybha
Whalewhine
Fishing pole 3k and worth every penny
I assumed we were talking material things.
Immaterial things: Many tens of thousands of pounds on solicitors and a barrister for a legal thing a few years back. Holidays cost a lot too.
Material thing: a watch, followed a mountain bike and a MacBook Air. A suite of John Lewis bedroom furniture cost more than all of those combined but that was 6 items really.
I've often gone years without any form of insurance because of not having any single items of any great value - we don't have any valuable items of art of jewellery for example. I appreciate something like a house fire, meaning replacement of everything, would be costly so I tend to buy it now.
Immaterial things: Many tens of thousands of pounds on solicitors and a barrister for a legal thing a few years back. Holidays cost a lot too.
Material thing: a watch, followed a mountain bike and a MacBook Air. A suite of John Lewis bedroom furniture cost more than all of those combined but that was 6 items really.
I've often gone years without any form of insurance because of not having any single items of any great value - we don't have any valuable items of art of jewellery for example. I appreciate something like a house fire, meaning replacement of everything, would be costly so I tend to buy it now.
Caravan! (and motorbike)
sebtucknott
Active member
Things that cost more than my car...
Cameras and lens £15k
Sauna/gym in my garden £5k
MacBook Pro £1.5k
2x mountain bikes both £1.5k
Cameras and lens £15k
Sauna/gym in my garden £5k
MacBook Pro £1.5k
2x mountain bikes both £1.5k
Lush
Mods' Pet
Does an annual season ticket to London count? £5 effing K
This*
* for the last 5 years anyway... now I work from home enough not to buy one! Result!
Butch Willykins
Well-known member
My teeth.
Spent a bonus having them upgraded a few years ago.
Spent a bonus having them upgraded a few years ago.
Mrs T's wedding ring*
*actually it cost £35 at the time - but I am still paying for it 27 years later
*actually it cost £35 at the time - but I am still paying for it 27 years later
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
+1
Some holidays have been more expensive, but the iMac is still here.
My best computer EVER!