Reply to: Most expensive "impulse buy"

[ladymuck]

Not long now!!!!

Although, come to think of it, if you are 'Money, Money, Money' why aren't you buying a new one???

[TheFaQQer]

That's why I didn't get it made into a ring. I thought there was more chance of it getting knocked.

Not sure about the bad luck though. Australia hasn't done that badly over the years and the country is the world's biggest supplier of them.

I think that historically that the bad luck thing stemmed from them getting damaged so easily.

My grandmother would never wear them because they were meant to be unlucky.

[Denny]

Opals are unlucky.

They also scratch easily, so take good care of it.

That's why I didn't get it made into a ring. I thought there was more chance of it getting knocked.

Not sure about the bad luck though. Australia hasn't done that badly over the years and the country is the world's biggest supplier of them.

[Money Money Money]

You git! I want one of them! Let us have a go, be your best friend!

Not long now!!!!

[ladymuck]

Just spent £18,000 on a Nissan 350Z. Getting it Thursday!!!

You git! I want one of them! Let us have a go, be your best friend!

[robnjc]

Opals are unlucky.

They also scratch easily, so take good care of it.

they're also porous so do'nt get it wet.....

[TheFaQQer]

Won't include the usual big ticket items you'd normally spend a fair amount on like property, cars and so on. This year I bought....

A £700 on a limited edition Moorcroft vase in the spring. I'm too scared to put it out in case I drop it or break it. It's not seen a drop of water or a flower yet. Not sure it ever will.

I spent about £500 on a stunning but smallish Crystal Opal from Australia last year then got it set into a silver and 24 K gold + seed pearl pendant made for me by my favourite silversmith and jeweller. That cost me another £450.

Opals are unlucky.

They also scratch easily, so take good care of it.

[hyperD]

£3,000 on a Breitling Navitimer in St Martin.

Oh no, wait £40,000 on a TVR Tuscan and then forgot to tell the wife for two years as I got drunk with complimentary tickets to the London Motor Show by lunchtime.

Sales: "Would you like to put down a deposit hyperd?"

Me (drunkenly): "Yeah, good idea, here's my card...."

[Diver]

One of them double Mars Bars 60p. supposed to be on a diet, but, what the hell eh! you only live once

[Board Game Geek]

Korg Trinity Workstation £900 many years ago. (Should have been £1800, but I landed a real corker. I worked for a brand name music company, and the sales guy in our company was a drinking mate with a sales guy in Korg, so the sales guy in our company said "I'll sort something" and he got it for cost. I was shocked that a sales guy would actually keep his word on something)

[Denny]

£1300 on a new watch last year, £800 on another a few months later

I got a solid 18K gold vintage Omega ladies watch a couple of years ago. It's a wind up jobbie, but still keeps perfect time. The best thing of all is that it only cost me £200 because I won it off an e-bay auction. I since got it authenticated and it was from a reputable seller so no duds here folks!

[Denny]

Won't include the usual big ticket items you'd normally spend a fair amount on like property, cars and so on. This year I bought....

A £700 on a limited edition Moorcroft vase in the spring. I'm too scared to put it out in case I drop it or break it. It's not seen a drop of water or a flower yet. Not sure it ever will.

I spent about £500 on a stunning but smallish Crystal Opal from Australia last year then got it set into a silver and 24 K gold + seed pearl pendant made for me by my favourite silversmith and jeweller. That cost me another £450.

[DiscoStu]

Approximately $290 billion US on a small South American Country.

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[kirk]

£1300 on a new watch last year, £800 on another a few months later

[BrowneIssue]

Oh, no. That wasn't the biggest.

Went to view a new build flat in my lunch break. An hour later I had bought the last one on my block.

Just before the Tories put the interest rates up to 14%.

(To my knowledge, six of us bought "the last one in the block". But I only ever got to speak to five of my neighbours who owned rather than rented their flat.)