Most expensive Possession/purchase

Alpha_zero

1400 most expensive item ever bought.
My current most expensive possession is 540 Euro.

_Kaiser_

My current car... €18k 6 weeks ago. Worth it though

IrishZeus

Aside from my car - it would be my watch. €5k - that was my wedding gift to myself.

893bet

My wife. Cost 25k or so.

Running costs vary by time of year.

unclebill98

Please include your Eircode in your post so the OP can check out your items in their own time.

Sleepy

Aside from the house and a bangernomics car I'd struggle to find a possession worth more than a couple of hundred quid tbh.

GingerLily

Car by a factor of 10, then laptop!

Grayson

Laptop/tablet. I bought a surface pro with my redundancy money when I was travelling.

hidinginthebush

Engagement ring for my ex. 
I still have it, and as I already knew the resell value is about a third what it cost :getlost:
2/10, wouldn't buy again.

Fratton Fred

The house, obviously.

It cost a lot, but around €400k less than the guy next door paid for his.

Its all about the timing.....

Gunslinger92

Just had a think and the answer is my phone, which is a bit mad isn't it..

MeatTwoVeg

Not counting the house or car, probably my watch about €3.5k. It's a beautiful marriage of precision engineering and artistry though.

Olishi4

Apart from my house and some jewellery, it would probably be my bed.

I wish I could say it was a campervan though. My uncle has a really cool one and heads off to France in it every year for a month or so. One day

JohnCleary

My boat. Cost more than my house ffs. The joys of being 25 and addicted to the water. Never looked back, has changed our lifestyle so much for the better.

The running costs are the killer though...annual costs are on par with your average mortgage

BrokenArrows

Most expensive single purchases in order high to low
Car(s)
Motorbike(s)
Engagement ring
Computer(s)
Phone(s)

Hopefully going to put a house on that list soon which will put the others to shame.

Pac1Man

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The house, obviously.

It cost a lot, but around €400k less than the guy next door paid for his.

Its all about the timing.....

When you can say that, you know you have a nice house.

IamMetaldave

GingerLily wrote: »

Car by a factor of 10, then laptop!

One of them is crazy expensive/cheap

hairyslug

Apart from house and cars, it would have to be the tv, nothing special about it

o1s1n

Planning a few pre Christmas burglaries op? :pac:

mansize

House
Annual Train ticket
Macbook
Fridge Freezer
iPhone
Overcoat

pilly

Wouldn't count my house as it will probably never be mine.

2 sofas each over 5k about 10 years ago, worth every penny. Still as comfortable as the day I bought them.

The Raptor

My collection. I won't say what it is but it's nothing sex related.

razorblunt

Aside from the car and gaff.
I bought the engagement ring for the wife, which is probably the best thing I've ever bought. Not alone for the price but I had picked up subtle clues about what her type would be, went off and got it, unbeknownst to her. We're 2 years married next week.
To me that's priceless.

I was saving up for a Tag for myself for ages too, jokingly used to wind the wife up that I never got a watch as an engagement present. Finally had the cash for a Tag but we were a couple of grand short for the offer on our gaff. Threw it into the deposit instead. The OH landed a big new job early in the year, surprised me with the watch as a thank you.

So from the above ... it's my wife.

Birneybau

The Raptor wrote: »

My collection. I won't say what it is but it's nothing sex related.

Shrunken heads? (Please be shrunken heads)

omb0wyn5ehpij9

My most expensive purchases would be:
3 cars (the most expensive being 13.5k)
4 motorbikes (the most expensive being 4.5k)
iPhone 6 (800 quid)
Laptops/computers
TV

weldoninhio

Alpha_zero wrote: »

1400 most expensive item ever bought.
My current most expensive possession is 540 Euro.

Beer belly, cost me literally thousands over the years. Thought I'd lost it when I went travelling, but it turned up once I got back. Must have put at least €80k into it. Which is quite scary when you think of it.

nelly17

House - not mine for quite a few years (if ever)
Cars
Wifes engagement ring
Les Paul Though is probably the most expensive 'Personal item'

House, flat, car, watch.

messy tessy

My most expensive purchase would be buying my car. Next is paying for my braces.

I can't wait next year to zoom around in my flash* car showing off my flash newly straightened teeth.






*not even a little flash. I love it though

Lau2976

Collection of paintbrushes or laptop

nelly17

Lau2976 wrote: »

Collection of paintbrushes or laptop

Collection of paintbrushes -can get expensive?

mzungu

My bicycle.

The Backwards Man

Pension

I'd be lying on a beach supping Tennent's somewhere if it wasn't for it.

Geuze

House.

100,000 capital loss.

Outlaw Pete

Apart from car, my projector. Paid €1,700 for it when it came out. Little cheaper now.

It turns either my sitting room or bedroom into a cinema and yet it's so slim and sexy you'd think it wouldn't be able to do anything of the sort.

It's the only inanimate object I think I have ever actually been in love with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FbdjNXhiKs

mcgiggles

Currently probably my engagement ring, then car, then laptop...
In a year it'll be my husband. That's going to be an expensive piece of paper :)

Fratton Fred

JohnCleary wrote: »

My boat. Cost more than my house ffs. The joys of being 25 and addicted to the water. Never looked back, has changed our lifestyle so much for the better.

The running costs are the killer though...annual costs are on par with your average mortgage

that is either a big arse boat, or you live in a flat in Sligo.

redbel05

Most expensive apart from the house is my dog...
Got her 12 years ago, friend of a friend gave to me as a 12 week old pup, free to a good home.

I reckon in terms of money spent on vaccinations, medical bills and food, she has cost me more than the price of my secondhand car. Of course in terms of value, she is absolutely priceless to me. Wouldn't swap her for 10 cars and a jet

Lau2976

nelly17 wrote: »

Collection of paintbrushes -can get expensive?

Very I have some handmade ones and a one good paintbrush can cost €300+. As well as that each paint type has its own type of paintbrush.

I'm not talking brushes used for painting a shed btw :pac: They're all fine art brushes.

Everybody else in college was spending their cheques on alcohol and clothes and I was saving for my next brush or palette :pac:

Beasty

Ignoring my houses, cars and bikes....

I've a few bits & pieces of sporting memorabilia. Some of it is on display in the National Football Museum in Manchester, including a few World Cup winners medals and a European Cup winners medal (pre Champions League)

Leaving out the house (and a half) and the cars that we have (3) - I guess the most expensive thing we own is the Jacuzzi I built myself in the garden. Its outdoor - fits loads of people - is heated (both the water - and over heard heating) - and has water protected ports around the outside for hooking in MP3 players which hook into a sound system around the over heard heating - the outside - and a few points near by around the garden.

Was quite expensive by the time it was done but still cost a very surprisingly small % of the cost I had quoted for "professionals" to come in and do the whole thing for me and their version was going to be less technically interesting (like the music system).

foxy farmer

25k on a tractor in 05.
But the purchase that indirectly has been the most costly was a "pedigree " simmental bull. Gave close to 2k for him a few years back. Turned out to be a complete disaster of an animal. Bred very nervous cattle. They wouldn't thrive. Extremely difficult to handle and had a poor resistance to any illness. The losses attributed to that bull would be more than10 times the price of the bull.

GingerLily

IamMetaldave wrote: »

One of them is crazy expensive/cheap

Laptop between 300 and 1200, car between 3000 and 12000, nothing abnormal about those prices for such big items!

JohnCleary

Fratton Fred wrote: »

that is either a big arse boat, or you live in a flat in Sligo.

By Irish standards, it's a big boat. Down in the Med it would be considered "doing OK for yourself"

uch

I bought a 20 pack box of Tayto, does that count ? Mightn't be my most expensive but probably my most treasured

IamMetaldave

GingerLily wrote: »

IamMetaldave wrote: »

One of them is crazy expensive/cheap

Laptop between 300 and 1200, car between 3000 and 12000, nothing abnormal about those prices for such big items!

When you said one was a factor of 10 more expensive than the other I was being a literal smart arse

Squeeonline

I think I spent about 2200€ on my laptop 3 years ago, meaning that it's worth about 50€ now.

I got an expensive machine because I needed it to not slow down over 4+ years and to be powerful enough to do moderate data processing. What I should have done, was buy two desktops, one for work and one for home, and probably still would have had enough left over for a netbook/etc for mobility.

Gwynplaine

My Sega Megadrive.

osarusan

Limerick FC season ticket.

The ticket, the hours off for away trips, the pints, the away tickets, the petrol, the replica gear, the mileage on the car, the food in places like Junction 14, the toll fees...year after year.

i wonder how much it all costs.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

My car - about 18k when it was bought
A headstone - 4ish k
A handbag (present) - about 2k
A few pairs of shoes between 795 and 2k
My engagement ring - just shy of 1k
Few handbags between 300-700

Car
Macbook pro