What are the Top 4 purchases you've ever made?

I mean in terms of purchases or investments that have drastically affected the course or satisfaction of your life.

Mine are:

1. My Masters degree, which I got in 2011. It saved me from a life of drifting and kickstarted my career, which has turned out to be unexpectedly lucrative.
Cost: EUR 2,500 + loan of EUR 10,500 to keep myself afloat through that time.

2. A month-long trip to the South Pacific with my wife. We did a very cheap wedding (about 2500 euro) but splurged somewhat a year later on the trip of a lifetime to French Polynesia. Such amazing memories of that time.
Cost: EUR 10,000

3. A specially commissioned family tree going back 9 generations to the year 1702. Something all the family can enjoy and hang on their walls, something to show my children which can place them in history and explain where they've come from.
Cost: EUR 650

4. A book on personal finance and index investing. Has transformed my life and given me good habits and a lot more money than I ever thought I'd have.
Cost: EUR 20

Mint Sauce

Last nights takeaway is still having quite an effect tbh.

SEPT 23 1989

Show off

Ubbquittious

Im really hoping Aonghus von Bismarck posts here

mad muffin

My wife. It only cost me 5 magic beans.

Pac1Man

My GTA Vice City soundtrack.

retalivity

A 1999 peugeout 206 i bought about 5 years ago for 400 quid, managed to get it thru the nct and got 5 grand for it in scrappage off a new car.
A pair of levis from tk maxx for 20 quid, lasted me about 8 years.
A good accountant.
Some magic beans.

orourkeda1977

A pint in temple bar. I stayed for 4. Never again

Capt'n Midnight

Tomalak wrote: »

4. A book on personal finance and index investing. Has transformed my life and given me good habits and a lot more money than I ever thought I'd have.
Cost: EUR 20

Ah. Shilling.

TheValeyard

Do not believe a word the OP says.


He is a well known Romulan Commander with exceptional skill in the art of deception and particularly skilled at fabricating stories.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

13 euro on a boards.ie subscription to change my name.

harvester of sorrow

Tomalak wrote: »

I mean in terms of purchases or investments that have drastically affected the course or satisfaction of your life.

Mine are:

1. My Masters degree, which I got in 2011. It saved me from a life of drifting and kickstarted my career, which has turned out to be unexpectedly lucrative.
Cost: EUR 2,500 + loan of EUR 10,500 to keep myself afloat through that time.

2. A month-long trip to the South Pacific with my wife. We did a very cheap wedding (about 2500 euro) but splurged somewhat a year later on the trip of a lifetime to French Polynesia. Such amazing memories of that time.
Cost: EUR 10,000

3. A specially commissioned family tree going back 9 generations to the year 1702. Something all the family can enjoy and hang on their walls, something to show my children which can place them in history and explain where they've come from.
Cost: EUR 650

4. A book on personal finance and index investing. Has transformed my life and given me good habits and a lot more money than I ever thought I'd have.
Cost: EUR 20

Not to suttle, I'm fu**ing loaded post...
:-/

The J Stands for Jay

Tomalak wrote: »

I mean in terms of purchases or investments that have drastically affected the course or satisfaction of your life.

4. A book on personal finance and index investing. Has transformed my life and given me good habits and a lot more money than I ever thought I'd have.
Cost: EUR 20

Should've gone to the library, bro.

Poor Uncle Tom

mad muffin wrote: »

My wife. It only cost me 5 magic beans.

So, you married the cow!

Cody montana

Car 1600
Car 1200
Flights to Australia via Dubai and Thailand 1200
Flights back from Australia via Japan 1000

Cheapskate!

Capt'n Midnight

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

So, you married the cow!

Nah, a cow's only worth three beans

XsApollo

Leather Levi’s belt,
I think I bought it at around 16years of age.
38 now and still going strong

JohnCleary

Yacht
Property
Car
Travel

What's my prize?

mad muffin

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

So, you married the cow!

My wife the cow, and other stories…

Mad_maxx

retalivity wrote: »

A 1999 peugeout 206 i bought about 5 years ago for 400 quid, managed to get it thru the nct and got 5 grand for it in scrappage off a new car.
A pair of levis from tk maxx for 20 quid, lasted me about 8 years.
A good accountant.
Some magic beans.

99 Peugeot 206 in 2014 was worth about 40 euro, you were had

Had you shown up with a packet of half eaten peanuts to go with your cash pile, the new car would have cost you the very same