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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A family holiday – anywhere the kids demand. Last year, I wanted us all to go to Egypt and my daughter said, “No, we’re going to go to Grenada.” So we did.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 October 2018 source ↗
My partner was doing a play in Hong Kong last year and I went to visit him, and I bought him a beautiful teacup. But I didn’t look at the price tag before I took it to the till and it was £100, the most expensive teacup imaginable.
I took the whole family to live in the Basque Country for a year. My children and I have a hereditary blood condition so I took out a health insurance policy. I’m still furious that none of us so much as stubbed a toe.
My husband and I own some art, but we are not huge spenders.
I’ve never bought a property. The most expensive thing I’ve bought was a Hyundai Tucson.
As someone who cared about others.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
Patricia Hodge, Charlotte Church, Omid Djalili, Robson Green, Katherine Parkinson, Kiefer Sutherland
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