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.
In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
An Andy Warhol Polaroid of Debbie Harry.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
I spend my money on vintage eyewear. I have a massive collection.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
Rory Stewart, Anita Rani, Emma Barnett, John Prescott, Kellie Maloney, John Lewis
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