What is the most you have paid for something?

can be for anything.

My wife - 5 squillion and counting.

it rather depends on what counts as "anything"? are we talking one single item, or could it be something like a holiday somewhere, or an event? If a single item, then it would be my spouse's engagement ring (about 2200 euros). If I can count a holiday, then I spent about 5 weeks in China two years and a bit ago, which probably cost me 3000 euros or so (flights included).

Too young to own a flat or a house, and haven't had the need for a car yet, but would expect those two to be high up on most people's lists...

I paid £120 for a Villa ticket v Man Utd in the Carling Cup final.

Didn't turn out to well.

Once paid 10 euros for a glass of coke in a nightclub in Paris.

How big was the glass?

And what do you mean by 'coke'?

Is the question the most I've ever paid for anything, or the most overpriced thing I've ever paid for?
my dad bought my car for me, so my biggest expense is probably the white tyres and tricked out rims I bought in June.... It probably exchanged to about £2000. Lived on Bread and noodles alone that month.

the most overpriced thing I've ever paid for, so to speak, was a few weeks ago in Ethiopia, when I tried to "encourage" a local to take me to Axum to meet the keeper of the Ark of the Covenant ... S.o.b took my money and forgot how to get there when I told him about my plans in Axum....

Spent 2 weeks in Ibiza 5 or 6 years ago. For some reason I'd got it in to my head that the exchange rate was something like 3 euros to the pound. As such I was doing 200-300 euros a day so when I got back and found out I'd spanked over £4k I was a little perturbed.

I have 4 kids. Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now. Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

westisbest wrote:I paid £120 for a Villa ticket v Man Utd in the Carling Cup final.

Didn't turn out to well.

Was that the one where the ref bottled sending Vidic off in the first two minutes? If so I was there as well.

Outside of house and car, bought TSMR a ring for her 40th that was pretty expensive, went to New York to do it as well so on reflection it cost a bleeding fortune. However, on the plus side I have no kids so it could be worse.

Outside of the obvious ones, house and car, I bought the bird a 2500 watch a couple of months ago, as watches go it isn't cheap but it most certainly isn't expensive either.

I've got a road bike, with the modifications I've made it's somewhere around 1600 quid. Again, that isn't really very expensive for a road bike when you consider what you can pay.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I have 4 kids.  Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now.  Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

That's just pocket change for you Tina, surely?

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I have 4 kids.  Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now.  Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

That's just pocket change for you Tina, surely?

Yeah but I thought it sounded cool.

Your spray tans but be approaching £100k?

Decided to have a hot tub put in the conservatory a couple of years ago........With the floor being dug up all the drainage issues and everything else..........Cost nearly 15,000...

Funny thing is we never hardly use the damn thing,..

Waste of money...

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I have 4 kids.  Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now.  Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

That's just pocket change for you Tina, surely?

Yeah but I thought it sounded cool.

Your spray tans but be approaching £100k?

I've never had a spray tan. I used to buy sunbed vouchers in blocks of 200 minutes but that stopped years ago.

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I have 4 kids.  Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now.  Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

That's just pocket change for you Tina, surely?

Yeah but I thought it sounded cool.

Your spray tans but be approaching £100k?

I've never had a spray tan. I used to buy sunbed vouchers in blocks of 200 minutes but that stopped years ago.

What about accessories for your Labradoodle? That must costing you a bit?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:What about accessories for your Labradoodle?  That must costing you a bit?

Like he said, the watch was £2.5k

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I have 4 kids.  Must be up to somewhere close to £100,000 by now.  Possibly more.

They are all under 12 so by the time they have all left home, I expect that figure to be considerably larger.

I still love them, though.

That's just pocket change for you Tina, surely?

Yeah but I thought it sounded cool.

Your spray tans but be approaching £100k?

I've never had a spray tan. I used to buy sunbed vouchers in blocks of 200 minutes but that stopped years ago.

What about accessories for your Labradoodle?  That must costing you a bit?

I've got a proper dog, non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

It is a bitch.

Labradoodles are actually proper dogs. I want a labrador and the missus wants a lap dog. We were going to get a Labradoodle as a compromise but she's paying so I think it is going to be a cockapoo now.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

An average human is just your regular guy on the street. Doesn't exercise a lot and isn't particularly strong. This is the type of guy a dog should be able to beat up in a fight.

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

It is a bitch.

Labradoodles are actually proper dogs. I want a labrador and the missus wants a lap dog. We were going to get a Labradoodle as a compromise but she's paying so I think it is going to be a cockapoo now.

Get one from a rescue home Sean... No need to buy and lap rat when hundreds are in homes looking for owners.

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

An average human is just your regular guy on the street. Doesn't exercise a lot and isn't particularly strong. This is the type of guy a dog should be able to beat up in a fight.

So your dog could, by your expectations, beat me up in a fight?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

An average human is just your regular guy on the street. Doesn't exercise a lot and isn't particularly strong. This is the type of guy a dog should be able to beat up in a fight.

So your dog could, by your expectations, beat me up in a fight?

In all fairness Tina a child managed it the other week so it is not too far out of leftfield.

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

An average human is just your regular guy on the street. Doesn't exercise a lot and isn't particularly strong. This is the type of guy a dog should be able to beat up in a fight.

So your dog could, by your expectations, beat me up in a fight?

In all fairness Tina a child managed it the other week so it is not too far out of leftfield.

He got a lucky shot in. Wouldn't happen in a rematch.

Controversial Stoppage was it Tino?

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

It is a bitch.

Labradoodles are actually proper dogs. I want a labrador and the missus wants a lap dog. We were going to get a Labradoodle as a compromise but she's paying so I think it is going to be a cockapoo now.

Get one from a rescue home Sean... No need to buy and lap rat when hundreds are in homes looking for owners.

Rescue homes are full of Staffies for a reason......

I would quite happily go for a rescue dog but the missus wants a non-molting breed and I don't really want my cats to be eaten.

I do quite like bedlington terrier / lurcher x (gypo's breed of choice) and I think she would have gone for that but it seems her heart is set on a cockapoo.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Rowley wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

An average human is just your regular guy on the street. Doesn't exercise a lot and isn't particularly strong. This is the type of guy a dog should be able to beat up in a fight.

So your dog could, by your expectations, beat me up in a fight?

In all fairness Tina a child managed it the other week so it is not too far out of leftfield.

He got a lucky shot in.  Wouldn't happen in a rematch.

You sound like Audley. Just accept the result and move on.

£4,500 on a car.

rick_dagless wrote:Controversial Stoppage was it Tino?

Made Froch v Groves look perfectly legitimate, mate.

Excluding the obvious (car, house) I spent about £8K on what was meant to be a once-in-a lifetime holiday for the family to Disneyworld in Orlando. It was so good we went again this year.
In terms of luxury items, I've bought a couple of pieces of art for around £1500 - £2000 each.

Rowley wrote:

westisbest wrote:I paid £120 for a Villa ticket v Man Utd in the Carling Cup final.

Didn't turn out to well.

Was that the one where the ref bottled sending Vidic off in the first two minutes? If so I was there as well.

Outside of house and car, bought TSMR a ring for her 40th that was pretty expensive, went to New York to do it as well so on reflection it cost a bleeding fortune. However, on the plus side I have no kids so it could be worse.

Yeah that was the won Rowley.

Terrible decision.

Mind the Windows Tino wrote:Made Froch v Groves look perfectly legitimate, mate.

 

seanmichaels wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Lumbering_Jack wrote:
I've got a proper dog,  non of these accessory breeds. If a dog can't win in a fight with an average human then it isn't a dog I'd own.

What's an 'average' human and is your dog called a) Tyson or b) Reuben?

It is a bitch.

Labradoodles are actually proper dogs. I want a labrador and the missus wants a lap dog. We were going to get a Labradoodle as a compromise but she's paying so I think it is going to be a cockapoo now.

Get one from a rescue home Sean... No need to buy and lap rat when hundreds are in homes looking for owners.

Rescue homes are full of Staffies for a reason......

I would quite happily go for a rescue dog but the missus wants a non-molting breed and I don't really want my cats to be eaten.

I do quite like bedlington terrier / lurcher x (gypo's breed of choice) and I think she would have gone for that but it seems her heart is set on a cockapoo.

Because chavvy scum get them as status symbols. Staffies are one of only 2 breeds the kennel club would recommend you having when a new born child is brought into the home.

I view people getting handbag dogs in the same way I do famous people adopting black babies. They don't love them as much as they would a proper dog (or their own baby) but do it as a kind of conversation starter. Attention seeking one might say.

CF wrote:£4,500 on a car.

Snap.

I once paid 20 quid for one stop on out metro (like and overground tube) system. Of course I had decided not to buy a ticket and was pulled up by the coppers at the other side. Serves me right I suppose.

Went to the wife's Christmas party on saturday night and i paid for round of drinks for myself the wife and two of her friends ... we ordered a pint of lager 2 white wines and a bacardi and coke and it came to £27.70 !

I bet the lager was for your Wife..

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:I bet the lager was for your Wife..

they were all for the wife she has a real problem

Kenny wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:I bet the lager was for your Wife..

they were all for the wife she has a real problem

Perhaps. But at least you can shag her and watch the sport at the same time. Her loss = your gain kenny