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 wedding ring.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
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.
Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
A restaurant called Catch LA.
A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.
If I needed less sleep.
My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
Funny Irish woman.
Becoming invisible.
You are your own greatest asset.
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