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 ↗
I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.
My short film, Scrubber, in 2011. At that time in my life it seemed easier to pay for it myself than to apply for funds.
An education for my child.
A Banksy painting.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
As someone who cared about others.
To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrea Riseborough, James Norton, Adeel Akhtar, Daniel Mays, Paul O'Grady
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