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.
Passion projects. I built the world’s first CBD steam room, opened the first Jamaican restaurant in Tenerife, I’m about to open a bar. Because I come from poverty, I want to make sure my children have a better start than I did.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗
My Austin Healey.
I had this idiotic manager for a while who got me an Armani suit and then got the money off me.
I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
It isn’t supposed to hurt, I know that.
Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
Yesterday – I’m bipolar.
As an honest person who tried to help where he could. Nothing fancy.
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Jack Dee, Maya Jama, Carlos Acosta, Jon Snow, Ann Dowd, Douglas Stuart
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