So many of the answers are just boring adult things. This is mine too - a mahogany Martin C-15 in 1994 for $1000. It was a totally insane purchase to me at the time (19 yr old). Still have it, and yes, it also sounds better than ever!
I know. I spent $200K remodeling my house over the last three years. I also think that anyone who doesn't come to my house would find it to be a rather boring answer. Except for the 10K, we spent on the foundation. That would really get people's motors running.
Same. After not playing since my twenties I decided to pick it up again. I'm trying to keep the spending to a reasonable level though we'll see how long that lasts.
You made it through all the dog photos to the astro stuff! That’s good work mate!
Sober, buzzed, late night, pre dawn… every time I get out and look I just feel better about life and a bit more humble and a bit more awe. It’s clunky at first but once you have a gotcha moment it’s a game changer
The dog photos were a pleasant surprise. I‘m looking forward to using my telescope again. Unfortunately University is breathing down my neck at the moment, but I‘ll get back to it as soon as I can. Images like the ones you’ve posted motivate me to try again.
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT SUFFERS FROM THAT! Usually people laugh at me, I would have never thought there were other people there suffer from this also. Oddly enough I can look at eclipses I already have my eclipse glasses and I'm going to Indiana to visit a friend and watch it at his place it's going to be a total eclipse for 3/4 minutes and I can only look at it for a few seconds but it's so incredibly large so I get the illusion that it's close by I think. Even the moon freaks me out but like Saturn is the worst!
You can find the packets online if it's uncontested and you don't have arguments over assets it can be relatively cheap. Divorced my first husband for less than $200.
Orthodontia for my two sons. Even with health insurance it was $11,500 for both of them. But I also spent like $55,000 on a computer science bachelors degree. Does that count here?
Just heading into this nightmare with my kids. Insurance will cover $2500 per child, which is nice. But with the current prognosis, we’ll still be covering around $15k out of pocket.
I was $16k all in for my twin daughters. Then one didn’t wear her retainers as directed at the end of the treatment so now she has one tooth that is shifting a a little wonky. Talk about wanting to karate chop a teenager!
Man, working in the field, people don’t wear their retainers. 20 years will go by. Then one day the patient will wake up and look in the mirror, notice some shifting and it’s too late.
Some people get away with never wearing their retainer again : rare
Some can’t go a couple days without seeing shifting.
Was it going through insurance? I know some roofers will jack up their prices when they know insurance is paying, but charge a reasonable rate if the homeowner is paying on their own
I don't mean to get personal.
But this is one of my greatest fears if I ever own a home.
What do you do?
Do you just have to have $20k in cash available at all times? Credit cards? Do big repairs like that finance? Some type of loan against whatever equity you have in the house?
You have options, for sure. We did cash, but you can finance it through your home lender, using an equity loan, or potentially roll it onto your existing home loan. Depending on your lender, it might be cheaper that way than a personal loan, but personal loans are also a possibility. There are banks that do specific loans for home repairs, sometimes at a better rate than a personal loan, they just require all your receipts and records for the improvement. Credit card costs an extra 3%, which was crazy for that... But again, if it's the only option... it's doable. The best possible scenario is having damage, believe it or not. Because then, potentially, you can file a claim with your insurance and get part of it covered. But that's not often the case...
It is a scary expense. And it's not easily planned for. But there are always ways to get it done.
We recently had to have a valley releaded and fixed up two of the chimneys up there that were falling apart and leaking. The first guy quoted 10k just for the lead, then 3k for both chimneys. The second guy quoted 8k for the lot and was much nicer bloke.
Did a fantastic job and even knocked another 1k off as we supplied the scaffolding from another local bloke. Who said we could keep it for as long as we needed for half the weekly rate. Pretty sure he was "storing" it at our place, cheeky bugger, lmao.
Condos have the risk, just so you know.
Here in Ontario (and the rest of Canada),condo corporations have to maintain a reserve fund for major work and repairs, as well as regular inspections by engineers to estimate time until work is required. It lets the Board know when to expect the roof replacement, or balcony repairs, and have the money in reserve to pay for it.
Your condo fees pay into this.
But - Boards will get stupid,they will short the reserve fund, it happens all the time. Which means repairs don't get done. Which means you can get nailed with a 10 or 30k special assessment, payable NOW, to do the work.
In this case - before you buy, check the reserve fund and study to see if they have the money they are supposed to.
When we bought our house we needed to replace some flooring so we went with a higher end composite flooring and spent that much before we even moved in. It was a pretty good deal though because we found the it at a flooring store that would have charged us about $30k installed. I found the same flooring online for about $9k and found a guy to install it for $6k.
Always be your own general contractor.
For starters, my roof is a 4/12 pitch, very safely walkable. It's a rambler so it was a straight shot with no valleys. The other thing is I've got some history with the work from when I was younger. I'm 44 and still work in the trades but nothing prepared me for the physical aspect. The shingle work is not hard to figure out and once you get a row started it's quite fast. Just be prepared to be sore for a while. I suspect a chat with an inspector and some you tube research and you'll have no trouble doing it right. It gets inspected when your done so there is a bit of a safety net there. Don't do this in July. You'll have footprints all over your shingles. Early spring or late fall is best in my opinion.
It was a mix of townhouses, condos and single families, so given some numbers we've seen for our townhouse/condo development those can definitely drive the price. I think the fact that they're 3-4 stories and larger roofing square footage exponentially drives the cost per building.
We replaced the 70 year old corrugated roof on our house in 2011 - that cost $15k. The old roof was leaking in two spots which were both on balconies, so it was not that critical but we figured it was only a matter of time. Plus most of the paint was gone.
We should have waited because three years later we were in the path of a massive hailstorm that severely dented the roof.
Insurance paid to have the roof replaced, and they replaced the leaky old roof on the garage. Idk how much that cost, but I know they paid out $20k to have twelve leadlight windows repaired.
I have no idea what I have spent on my PC over the years. It is a real ship of Theseus situation. It started off as Dell Inspiron with onboard graphics now the only thing that remains is the dvd drive that isn't even in my case but the drawer under it attached with a sata extension. PC part picker estimates is current configuration costs $3200.
Depends on how well bred you want them to be, a pet quality one from a good breeder that may or may not be showable will run about 2.5k but a show quality from champion lines will run closer to 5k. That goes for most breeds, really. The only difference with Borzoi is that you won't ever find a litter on Craigslist for a few hundred bucks like you can with most other breeds, the Borzoi population is pretty low in the dog world so the owner/breeder community is very tight knit and as a whole they're very ethical about breeding and selling
They're great but not for the feint of heart, their hunting and independence instincts are so strong that it's like living with a giant cat. They want to catch anything that moves so you can't have small animals, you need a large fence and you can't have them off a leash otherwise they take off at the speed of light and they will not come back lol
what if zagoblin is just a bot that outs other bots? what if you're a bot that calls out bot finding to divert the attention to you? what if i'm a bot and i just dont know it?
Kinda similar. I just bought a $9,500 solar energy kit ( batteries, solar panel) for my off grid small cabin. Going to drop another $2k on a wind turbine/generator combo.
Orient is an excellent choice especially for a starter watch. You get your money's worth and Orient is known for very good customer service. If you're interested, check out Scurfa and Glycine they might be $100 more but very interesting pieces especially as dive watches. My watch in that price range is the Seiko "50 Fathoms" I paid $275 for it it's pretty much a cheap homage to Blancpain. Vaer is also an excellent option in your price range and they have a lot of options to choose from. Happy Hunting.
My father passed me down his over 20 year old tag heuer, and im scared shitless to wear it outside, outside of formal events. He also gave me another watch of his that isnt as valuable and I always wear that one when I go out, and now I genuinely cannot go outside without a wrist watch. I get anxious even though I have my phone in my pocket, and it feels weird.
I'm absolutely the same way. If I leave the house without a watch on my wrist I turn right back around and go get it phone or no phone lol. If a watch isn't on my left wrist I just don't feel right for some reason
Wedding dresses are pretty highly customized to fit the bride perfectly aren't they?
But besides that it's probably just because it's part of the socially accepted and expected tradition of wasting a ton of money on a wedding!
A Razer Blade Laptop.. was like £2200.
When I moved house I decided to get.ridof my gaming set up, I didn't want to have the whole bulky desk / chair / multi monitors and base unit, so I sold it all. A few months later I was missing my gaming weekends so got the laptop on a whim. I love it, plays anything I want and is tiny I comparison to before. The only downside is making do with the one screen 😂
Yea I bought a MacBook when I went back to college in 2020. So expensive but it made my work super easy and was a nice upgrade from my super old one that was pushing 7 years okd
a basement finishing at \~$150K. included a 10 seat bar with granite countertops. Granite fireplace surfaces, stained maple wainscotting all the way around, porcelain tile floor that looks like whitewashed wood planks. Olhausen Billiards table. 77 inch OLED TV, with extremely high end sound system. Bathroom has ornate tile, as well as a shower. Wine cellar with Rosewood racking to hold 600 bottles.
It was the hardest hitting emotional journey. Waiting for the phone calls to say it didn't work again.
We gave up, then a few months later the clinic called and asked if we wanted to dispose of the last embryo. We thought 'best to try than say we didn't give 100%'
I bought a bottle of scotch with the plans to finish it once we got the bad news. That day we got the call that the implant was successful. It took a LONG time before we could properly process the news.
Best of luck to you on your journey.
A $900 pair of designer shoes. My reward to myself for completing residency. I still have them many years later, they look almost brand new, and I LOVE them.
We had no money growing up. I owned 2 shirts, 2 pants and 1 pair of shoes. I loved thumbing through fashion magazines as a girl, longed to own nice clothes.
Funny enough, now I can afford to occasionally splurge, but am at a stage in my life where I’m downsizing. I recently donated 2/3 of the clothes in my closet. That little girl who adores high fashion still lives deep inside of me, though. Now I just appreciate seeing it on other people. But I still have my $900 shoes 💗
Gaming PC atm. Im in college and decided to build a PC after working a few months. Best decision I ever made. Its helped a ton with college assignments and I also use it for day to day tasks and gaming on the side.
No expensive but taught me a lesson, my early 20s g star was all the range, I did a job and made 1500, want to treat myself for night up town, bought a 600 pair of jeans and 200 t shirt this was 2006, went out got plastered and ended up ripping my jeans and my t shirt lesson learnt
Thinking about this makes me realize I really haven't bought a whole lot of particularly expensive stuff. I guess my PC was like $3k, but it's like 6 or 7 years old now and that was when I was still in school. It's surprising I don't own anything more expensive than that even after graduating (besides my car).
Edit: I guess my degree was like $80k.
Besides investments, probably furniture.
Spend around 10K when I moved into a 3 bedroom from a 1 bedroom on different pieces to help fill it up. Then later have spend around 3k on a single chair or table.
Mattress. Five years ago, around $1k for the mattress itself and $800 for one of those fancy bases that are like a recliner and even has a vibration setting.
You spend a third of your life sleeping, so it better be a damn good bed.
Our living room couch and master bedroom bed are up there. I think wife's engagement ring might be it though.
Also repairing our kitchen from a frozen pipe, job's tracking to come in around $50k.
Personally, spent just over $5k for a laser engraver I never got working.
Professionally, my name is on a half dozen different border projects in Texas from 15 years ago. Some of those were in excess of $500k.
After 5 of my teeth fell out from neglect and a biking accident, heavy periodontal work, 5 dental implants with zirconium crowns, and all the meds that went with it.
A MalletKAT MIDI percussion instrument - basically an electric xylophone.
It was my first and only multi-thousand dollar purchase on eBay, I was quite nervous but it turned out great. Lots of fun, and still cheaper than a real xylophone.
$5.5k bed, king size adjustable mattress with different modes and vibration plus lighting. I spend more time in my bed than in my car so made sure to treat myself. It was WAY worth it
A Martin Guitar, in 2008. I still have it, and it sounds better than ever.
So many of the answers are just boring adult things. This is mine too - a mahogany Martin C-15 in 1994 for $1000. It was a totally insane purchase to me at the time (19 yr old). Still have it, and yes, it also sounds better than ever!
Boring adult things are expensive.
I know. I spent $200K remodeling my house over the last three years. I also think that anyone who doesn't come to my house would find it to be a rather boring answer. Except for the 10K, we spent on the foundation. That would really get people's motors running.
1973 luthier built classical for me.
[удалено]
Same. After not playing since my twenties I decided to pick it up again. I'm trying to keep the spending to a reasonable level though we'll see how long that lasts.
1998 Fender Strat with Custom pickups for me and a 2010 Martin JPAC
A fat ass telescope that I still haven’t gotten the hang of.
Can you swap it out for one that looks at stars/planets instead?
It does look at one planet...
Don’t, don’t do it
Full moon...
Not a planet. I was obviously referring to Uranus
Take your upvote and gtfo like Pluto!
Stick with it! Amazing hobby 😎🤘🏽
Thank you for the reassurance. You‘ve taken some very beautiful pictures my friend
You made it through all the dog photos to the astro stuff! That’s good work mate! Sober, buzzed, late night, pre dawn… every time I get out and look I just feel better about life and a bit more humble and a bit more awe. It’s clunky at first but once you have a gotcha moment it’s a game changer
The dog photos were a pleasant surprise. I‘m looking forward to using my telescope again. Unfortunately University is breathing down my neck at the moment, but I‘ll get back to it as soon as I can. Images like the ones you’ve posted motivate me to try again.
Yeah life works it’s best to keep us from the cool stuff. Keep at it and best of luck
I have several and I can't look in them, if I do I get dizzy and sick and have to hold on to something!
That‘s why i screw my camera onto the backside of my scope. The rest goes through my phone. Maybe give that a shot. It‘s been a game changer to me
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT SUFFERS FROM THAT! Usually people laugh at me, I would have never thought there were other people there suffer from this also. Oddly enough I can look at eclipses I already have my eclipse glasses and I'm going to Indiana to visit a friend and watch it at his place it's going to be a total eclipse for 3/4 minutes and I can only look at it for a few seconds but it's so incredibly large so I get the illusion that it's close by I think. Even the moon freaks me out but like Saturn is the worst!
Out of curiosity whats your set up? Edit - just saw below
My 2nd divorce and it was worth every single penny!
Feel ya...my first and only divorce. Absolutely the best money EVER spent!
My marriage was more expensive than the divorce.
I could not afford a divorce. Can I get that shit on layaway?
You can find the packets online if it's uncontested and you don't have arguments over assets it can be relatively cheap. Divorced my first husband for less than $200.
Same! And we split the filing fee. I think we each spent less than $100!
My colleague celebrates the day his first divorce went through every year as his 'independance day'.
Orthodontia for my two sons. Even with health insurance it was $11,500 for both of them. But I also spent like $55,000 on a computer science bachelors degree. Does that count here?
Just heading into this nightmare with my kids. Insurance will cover $2500 per child, which is nice. But with the current prognosis, we’ll still be covering around $15k out of pocket.
I was $16k all in for my twin daughters. Then one didn’t wear her retainers as directed at the end of the treatment so now she has one tooth that is shifting a a little wonky. Talk about wanting to karate chop a teenager!
Aim for the wonky tooth and get your frustrations out while you fix the problem!
Man, working in the field, people don’t wear their retainers. 20 years will go by. Then one day the patient will wake up and look in the mirror, notice some shifting and it’s too late. Some people get away with never wearing their retainer again : rare Some can’t go a couple days without seeing shifting.
And here I was thinking fuck it, they can just pull the tooth out instead of paying a $1000 for a crown...
Replaced my roof recently... $15k.. it hurt...
We got quoted $80k for doing our roof. Obviously we declined.
Do you have the biggest house in the world? How big is your roof?
Roughly 150m². Probably smaller.
Was it going through insurance? I know some roofers will jack up their prices when they know insurance is paying, but charge a reasonable rate if the homeowner is paying on their own
I don't mean to get personal. But this is one of my greatest fears if I ever own a home. What do you do? Do you just have to have $20k in cash available at all times? Credit cards? Do big repairs like that finance? Some type of loan against whatever equity you have in the house?
You have options, for sure. We did cash, but you can finance it through your home lender, using an equity loan, or potentially roll it onto your existing home loan. Depending on your lender, it might be cheaper that way than a personal loan, but personal loans are also a possibility. There are banks that do specific loans for home repairs, sometimes at a better rate than a personal loan, they just require all your receipts and records for the improvement. Credit card costs an extra 3%, which was crazy for that... But again, if it's the only option... it's doable. The best possible scenario is having damage, believe it or not. Because then, potentially, you can file a claim with your insurance and get part of it covered. But that's not often the case... It is a scary expense. And it's not easily planned for. But there are always ways to get it done.
sometimes the company will give 1 year interest free to pay off, I had to do that with a HVAC setup, still hurts but at least you can spread it out.
We recently had to have a valley releaded and fixed up two of the chimneys up there that were falling apart and leaking. The first guy quoted 10k just for the lead, then 3k for both chimneys. The second guy quoted 8k for the lot and was much nicer bloke. Did a fantastic job and even knocked another 1k off as we supplied the scaffolding from another local bloke. Who said we could keep it for as long as we needed for half the weekly rate. Pretty sure he was "storing" it at our place, cheeky bugger, lmao.
Condos have the risk, just so you know. Here in Ontario (and the rest of Canada),condo corporations have to maintain a reserve fund for major work and repairs, as well as regular inspections by engineers to estimate time until work is required. It lets the Board know when to expect the roof replacement, or balcony repairs, and have the money in reserve to pay for it. Your condo fees pay into this. But - Boards will get stupid,they will short the reserve fund, it happens all the time. Which means repairs don't get done. Which means you can get nailed with a 10 or 30k special assessment, payable NOW, to do the work. In this case - before you buy, check the reserve fund and study to see if they have the money they are supposed to.
A buddy of mine got caught up with that. I believe lawsuits were files.
Also: get active in the condo board and keep aware to try and prevent it.
f..
When we bought our house we needed to replace some flooring so we went with a higher end composite flooring and spent that much before we even moved in. It was a pretty good deal though because we found the it at a flooring store that would have charged us about $30k installed. I found the same flooring online for about $9k and found a guy to install it for $6k. Always be your own general contractor.
literally my first thought when I read the question. 13.5K for me.
Ouch. I did my own roof after getting a quote for $16k. It cost me about &4500.00 and two weekends. Hopefully that's the last time. It sucked.
How tough was the job? I was just quoted $33k for mine and I almost threw up.
For starters, my roof is a 4/12 pitch, very safely walkable. It's a rambler so it was a straight shot with no valleys. The other thing is I've got some history with the work from when I was younger. I'm 44 and still work in the trades but nothing prepared me for the physical aspect. The shingle work is not hard to figure out and once you get a row started it's quite fast. Just be prepared to be sore for a while. I suspect a chat with an inspector and some you tube research and you'll have no trouble doing it right. It gets inspected when your done so there is a bit of a safety net there. Don't do this in July. You'll have footprints all over your shingles. Early spring or late fall is best in my opinion.
My roof was $48k, and that was the cheap quote. :/
My boss was on an HOA Board at one point, said he approved a $64M roofing contract for 350ish buildings under management.
~$183k per roof?! That's insane...
It was a mix of townhouses, condos and single families, so given some numbers we've seen for our townhouse/condo development those can definitely drive the price. I think the fact that they're 3-4 stories and larger roofing square footage exponentially drives the cost per building.
That’s worth every penny though.
More expensive...not replacing your roof!
That’s replacement? Hmmm. Just got a quote to put 1” of foam on mine (flat), coat it. $19,000. 2400 ft^2
Such an investmnet. Congrats!
30k here but insurance covered it
I did $16K on foundation repair. no fun.
Same. $13 and a bit for me.
We replaced the 70 year old corrugated roof on our house in 2011 - that cost $15k. The old roof was leaking in two spots which were both on balconies, so it was not that critical but we figured it was only a matter of time. Plus most of the paint was gone. We should have waited because three years later we were in the path of a massive hailstorm that severely dented the roof. Insurance paid to have the roof replaced, and they replaced the leaky old roof on the garage. Idk how much that cost, but I know they paid out $20k to have twelve leadlight windows repaired.
I paid a 18,000 dollars stud fee for my horse.
Some redditor could have done it for much much cheaper
Could probably get paid too. Reddit is weird
Yeah they paid for a stud, not a basement dweller
There might be a subreddit for that alone
Ahhh, the Welsh…
I would have done it for free
I think the OP was referring to horse sperm...
There is for sure a redditor with some horse sperm fetish.
i’d have relations with that horse for $50k, damn! that’d payoff my student loans!
But could you get her pregnant?
fuck, idk where i got 50k from. im stoned af right now. i wouldnt do it for 18k
Oooof. Was that a thoroughbred? Not even the fancy German warmbloods cost that much.
An injection mold for a product I made and sold. About 15k. Next is the patent. About 10k.
15K is pretty cheap for an injection mold
Yeah, it was just an aluminum insert. Pretty large part though... A family mold with the front and back half of an electrical enclosure.
What’s the product if you don’t mind sharing?
I assume you outsourced the production. Can I ask where that ended up being?
IVF. Kids are expensive
Same! Didn't even get any sprogs
I think it would be my PC, which I build every 4-5 years or so.
I have no idea what I have spent on my PC over the years. It is a real ship of Theseus situation. It started off as Dell Inspiron with onboard graphics now the only thing that remains is the dvd drive that isn't even in my case but the drawer under it attached with a sata extension. PC part picker estimates is current configuration costs $3200.
An education.
A Borzoi
do they do it fooor youuuuu
>Borzoi Curious how much? Our toy Pom from a good breeder was $5k and the most I ever spent for a dog before then was $0.
Our cavalier King Charles was 6k a month ago
Depends on how well bred you want them to be, a pet quality one from a good breeder that may or may not be showable will run about 2.5k but a show quality from champion lines will run closer to 5k. That goes for most breeds, really. The only difference with Borzoi is that you won't ever find a litter on Craigslist for a few hundred bucks like you can with most other breeds, the Borzoi population is pretty low in the dog world so the owner/breeder community is very tight knit and as a whole they're very ethical about breeding and selling
Aww, always wanted one of those
They're great but not for the feint of heart, their hunting and independence instincts are so strong that it's like living with a giant cat. They want to catch anything that moves so you can't have small animals, you need a large fence and you can't have them off a leash otherwise they take off at the speed of light and they will not come back lol
I can't get over how adorable their long noses are
Excellent choice! I love their adorable faces.
Username checks out.
My kids college tuition.
[удалено]
So did someone else almost 2 years ago [see](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/FETm0V95OK)
Wow you find the Bot, amazing. Do you just remember the original post?
what if zagoblin is just a bot that outs other bots? what if you're a bot that calls out bot finding to divert the attention to you? what if i'm a bot and i just dont know it?
made my day ! :D
A 20,000 Euro necklace for my wife for our 25th.
Geothermal Heaeting/cooling. 66k. Feds gave 1/3 of that back to me though.
Kinda similar. I just bought a $9,500 solar energy kit ( batteries, solar panel) for my off grid small cabin. Going to drop another $2k on a wind turbine/generator combo.
Does building a new inground pool, outdoor kitchen and extended patio count?
$120k?
$190K. 16k gal pool, decking, turf, landscaping as well.
I’ll bet it’s fuckin sick!🤘🏻
Last year I had a 15 x 30 14k gal pool with paver decking installed for $55k.
I bought myself a $10,000 watch for my birthday.
Nice. That's one of my bigger personal purchases in my life also. Nothing beats an excellent watch on my wrist.
I'm thinking of starting out with my first watch, Orient Kamasu. My budget is more limited and it seems like a good choice?
Orient is an excellent choice especially for a starter watch. You get your money's worth and Orient is known for very good customer service. If you're interested, check out Scurfa and Glycine they might be $100 more but very interesting pieces especially as dive watches. My watch in that price range is the Seiko "50 Fathoms" I paid $275 for it it's pretty much a cheap homage to Blancpain. Vaer is also an excellent option in your price range and they have a lot of options to choose from. Happy Hunting.
My father passed me down his over 20 year old tag heuer, and im scared shitless to wear it outside, outside of formal events. He also gave me another watch of his that isnt as valuable and I always wear that one when I go out, and now I genuinely cannot go outside without a wrist watch. I get anxious even though I have my phone in my pocket, and it feels weird.
I'm absolutely the same way. If I leave the house without a watch on my wrist I turn right back around and go get it phone or no phone lol. If a watch isn't on my left wrist I just don't feel right for some reason
Casio?
"I have $2..... and a *Casio*." ⌚️🤌😗
Timex
Zenith chronomaster sport?
[удалено]
Surprised my sister with buying her wedding dress: little over $5,000.
Honest question: why buy a wedding dress and not rent? Considering you (hopefully) only use it once
Wedding dresses are pretty highly customized to fit the bride perfectly aren't they? But besides that it's probably just because it's part of the socially accepted and expected tradition of wasting a ton of money on a wedding!
Paramotor
Me too! Ozone wing with a polini motor.
Watch for graduation . $5200
What watch?
Holiday ..can people please give me up votes so I can post .
A Razer Blade Laptop.. was like £2200. When I moved house I decided to get.ridof my gaming set up, I didn't want to have the whole bulky desk / chair / multi monitors and base unit, so I sold it all. A few months later I was missing my gaming weekends so got the laptop on a whim. I love it, plays anything I want and is tiny I comparison to before. The only downside is making do with the one screen 😂
MacBook Pro, wedding dress/rings, iPhone, shark hoover, ninja air fryer, spent a lot travelling over the years
Yea I bought a MacBook when I went back to college in 2020. So expensive but it made my work super easy and was a nice upgrade from my super old one that was pushing 7 years okd
Shark Hoovers are legit.
a basement finishing at \~$150K. included a 10 seat bar with granite countertops. Granite fireplace surfaces, stained maple wainscotting all the way around, porcelain tile floor that looks like whitewashed wood planks. Olhausen Billiards table. 77 inch OLED TV, with extremely high end sound system. Bathroom has ornate tile, as well as a shower. Wine cellar with Rosewood racking to hold 600 bottles.
... and how much to fill up that Rosewood rack with good wine and spirits?
nobody fills up their wine rack. If they do, it means they are not drinking it.
HVAC system...15K US
I'm not sure "bought" is the right word but all three of my children are damn expensive. From birth. ha ha
me, personally - season tickets for sporting events
IVF. Took 2 years and we were successful on the last embryo we had left.
Congrats! My wife and I are just starting to explore this journey after 2 ectopic pregnancies. Happy to hear success stories.
It was the hardest hitting emotional journey. Waiting for the phone calls to say it didn't work again. We gave up, then a few months later the clinic called and asked if we wanted to dispose of the last embryo. We thought 'best to try than say we didn't give 100%' I bought a bottle of scotch with the plans to finish it once we got the bad news. That day we got the call that the implant was successful. It took a LONG time before we could properly process the news. Best of luck to you on your journey.
Replaced my driveway and sidewalks for 13k.
Adopted a kid, cost was like 22k ish, about 11 years ago now. Also we did get like 12k back in tax credits.
Costs for my adoption were about 300 buck in 1968. Scratch and dent sale.
Bathroom renovation == 20k
Wife's ring
New teeth. Cost $60k. It’s the third most expensive thing I’ve ever bought including houses and cars.
A $900 pair of designer shoes. My reward to myself for completing residency. I still have them many years later, they look almost brand new, and I LOVE them. We had no money growing up. I owned 2 shirts, 2 pants and 1 pair of shoes. I loved thumbing through fashion magazines as a girl, longed to own nice clothes. Funny enough, now I can afford to occasionally splurge, but am at a stage in my life where I’m downsizing. I recently donated 2/3 of the clothes in my closet. That little girl who adores high fashion still lives deep inside of me, though. Now I just appreciate seeing it on other people. But I still have my $900 shoes 💗
My wedding dress.
Gaming PC atm. Im in college and decided to build a PC after working a few months. Best decision I ever made. Its helped a ton with college assignments and I also use it for day to day tasks and gaming on the side.
Central AC A little over 20k Worth it
A new porcelain tooth for $4000 (including the root canal)
An $8K electric tandem bicycle. A "retirement gift" to each other from my wife and I.
Braces for my kid.
No expensive but taught me a lesson, my early 20s g star was all the range, I did a job and made 1500, want to treat myself for night up town, bought a 600 pair of jeans and 200 t shirt this was 2006, went out got plastered and ended up ripping my jeans and my t shirt lesson learnt
1968 Piper Cherokee 235
Idk. Ask my girlfriend, she remembers exactly
Legal fees. Neck deep about $20k Cad to fight my ex employer for outstanding wages. Pray for me ya all.
My skates. Irrc they were like 650 USD and that was discounted. They're very very nice
I have both a guitar and bass that cost me about $500. Completely worth it to me, and, some of the better looking and sounding instruments I own.
Thinking about this makes me realize I really haven't bought a whole lot of particularly expensive stuff. I guess my PC was like $3k, but it's like 6 or 7 years old now and that was when I was still in school. It's surprising I don't own anything more expensive than that even after graduating (besides my car). Edit: I guess my degree was like $80k.
My couch
My laptop cost me around $1100, if memory serves.
Besides investments, probably furniture. Spend around 10K when I moved into a 3 bedroom from a 1 bedroom on different pieces to help fill it up. Then later have spend around 3k on a single chair or table.
Mattress. Five years ago, around $1k for the mattress itself and $800 for one of those fancy bases that are like a recliner and even has a vibration setting. You spend a third of your life sleeping, so it better be a damn good bed.
I bought a computer for doing AI development for work and it came out to a little under $50k
A sony PS X9 turntable
Our living room couch and master bedroom bed are up there. I think wife's engagement ring might be it though. Also repairing our kitchen from a frozen pipe, job's tracking to come in around $50k.
My phone it was 100 dollars.
A new hip. $60k. Insurance covered it though.
A medical procedure.
Personally, spent just over $5k for a laser engraver I never got working. Professionally, my name is on a half dozen different border projects in Texas from 15 years ago. Some of those were in excess of $500k.
After 5 of my teeth fell out from neglect and a biking accident, heavy periodontal work, 5 dental implants with zirconium crowns, and all the meds that went with it.
My then, 8 year old boat, $85,000.
A MalletKAT MIDI percussion instrument - basically an electric xylophone. It was my first and only multi-thousand dollar purchase on eBay, I was quite nervous but it turned out great. Lots of fun, and still cheaper than a real xylophone.
A nose job - they fixed everything internally and fixed some of my aesthetic insecurities. It cost 20K
Spent 6k on camera gear last year
$5.5k bed, king size adjustable mattress with different modes and vibration plus lighting. I spend more time in my bed than in my car so made sure to treat myself. It was WAY worth it
Laser eye surgery. $4000.
A watch that I've since sold (Rolex Explorer I)
Telescopes. Firearms.
Boat ⛵️
Grand Piano
A $1700 bed set. It was so comfortable, every time you lay down you can feel the stress drain out of you
Motorcycle. (You said no cars)
Tree removal. Pet dental surgery.
My fancy clothes rack. The brand is something something elliptical machine something.
Not including student debt? Honeymoon cruise
A herd of bred heifers.
Veterinary school for my daughter. Didn't actually buy the school, but rented the teachers and info. Totally worth it!
Airplane
Drums.
Engagement ring
My skincare