The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
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An office in the garden.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
I bought a sports car over 20 years ago and still have it. She’s a black Z8 BMW. I love her: she’s my pride and joy.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.
Handing out the tequilas.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
Being giving to the detriment of myself.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
Very silly boy.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
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