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 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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 November 2018 source ↗
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
My penny farthing. It was £1,200. I’ve ridden it to Buckingham Palace and back.
My wife. I am a lavish present-giver. I love worshipping my wife with beautiful bits and pieces – it is one of my greatest pleasures.
An electric-yellow mohair rug.
As an accomplished dancer and tennis player, because I do neither, so my loved ones would be very confused.
The Guardian’s review of my book.
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
My mother, Hannah: nearly 82, mother of four, homemaker, retired GP and knitter extraordinaire.
I ran 10k once. I’ve got a medal.
Lack of magnesium.
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