The question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have 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 Dalí painting.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗
I told Sean Connery he’d have to lose his Glaswegian accent and take elocution lessons if he wanted to be an actor. When he became James Bond, I never got a chance to tell him how wrong I’d been.
A bed from Savoir Beds. People spend loads of money on cars, but spend more of their lives sleeping than driving. The maths is wrong, if you ask me.
I bought a pink leader’s jersey from the 1953 Tour of Italy which belonged to Swiss rider Hugo Koblet. I spent £45,000.
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
Alchemy. Love. Resilience.
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
Evolve or perish.
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
Not being there for my daughter.
Patricia Hodge, Charlotte Church, Omid Djalili, Robson Green, Sandi Toksvig, Julian Lloyd Webber
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