# Things Worth More Than You Paid **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225 "2013-08-14T16:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/41 "2013-08-15T17:37:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Amazon Prime. I’ve used it so much I can’t believe I haven’t worn it out. Good one. I’d say I use our Prime Subscription at _least_ once per week. I love how people included their pets! And **Amateur Barbarian** you make me kinda want a bird feeder. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/42 "2013-08-15T17:59:39Z")
16-gauge galvanized wire. It has a million and one uses. Somehow, the loop I have been snipping off of for 20 years has disappeared from it’s proper place in the basement. I’ve come to depend in it being there for all kinds of things. Family members deny all knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/43 "2013-08-15T18:12:52Z")
Shares of $AAPL dating back to 1993. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/44 "2013-08-15T18:39:11Z")
I can’t believe I almost forgot one of my best ever purchases -\*\* TempurPedic Cloud Mattress\*\*. They are expensive, but I was in misery and we figured if we were going to replace our mattress, we’d go big. Best. Decision. EVER. Gone are the aches and pains when I wake up in the morning. And every night I go to bed I am just so happy. The pillow is also worth it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/45 "2013-08-15T19:00:09Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I can’t believe I almost forgot one of my best ever purchases -\*\* TempurPedic Cloud Mattress\*\*. They are expensive, but I was in misery and we figured if we were going to replace our mattress, we’d go big. > > Best. Decision. EVER. Gone are the aches and pains when I wake up in the morning. And every night I go to bed I am just so happy. > > The pillow is also worth it. I’ll second this. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/46 "2013-08-15T19:11:42Z")
I’m sure a lot of my comic books are worth more than I paid. I’m sure most of them aren’t though. Well, maybe they are, since they rarely drop below cover price, and I did get a 25% discount on them. But only some are significantly more than I paid, which was my original meaning. A few of my video games are worth a lot more than I paid, like Suikoden 2 and Panzer Dragoon Saga. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/47 "2013-08-15T19:53:19Z")
My allotment. The annual rent is £40- except I’m currently getting it half price because I’m unemployed. So, for £20 I get space to grow my own food, plenty of exercise, friendly neighbours (as well as the… interesting… ones). I spend a few hours down there every day or so. Frankly, it’s been about the only thing keeping me sane for the last few months, and when I move, I can still keep it, unlike the back garden. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/48 "2013-08-16T15:34:14Z")
Many years ago, I was working at a thrift store, sorting through donated products. There was [a set of Rapidograph drafting pens](http://cdn.streamzoo.com/si_13177849_5uiwxqy5lp_lr.jpg) that was going to be thrown out, because it included ink, and was deemed to violate a policy about putting anything out that contained any “chemicals”. I called a supervisor’s attention to this set, and to the fact that it was probably fairly valuable, and could we at least not discard the ink and sell the set of pens without it? In the end, what happened was to invoke a policy by which employees of the store could buy something that otherwise was going to be discarded, and the price was set at fifty cents, which, with my 15% employee discount, became forty-two cents. I have never used them, and don’t know if I ever will, but I still have them. When I got home that day, I looked them up on eBay and saw that similar sets were going for at least $30 or more. [Here’s an Amazon search showing similar sets](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_gnr_aps?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Arapidograph+%223165-sp7p%22&keywords=rapidograph+%223165-sp7p%22)—probably the same set, in a slightly different case. Looks like it contains the same seven pens, the same ink, and the same few other accessories. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/49 "2013-08-16T15:57:54Z")
In college and for years after, my friends and I played _a lot_ of board games. Mostly Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary but there were others as well. For some of those games, the cost per hour of play is in the pennies, given how many times we played them. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/50 "2013-08-16T16:06:27Z")
My dog. A measly $65 donation to the pound. My Kindle Fire. A gift. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/51 "2013-08-16T16:08:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I only paid $64 for my marriage license, and got a whole new life in return. You got rooked, my friend. Mine was only $45. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/52 "2013-08-16T16:14:19Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You got rooked, my friend. Mine was only $45. Used? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225/53 "2013-08-16T19:13:25Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You got rooked, my friend. Mine was only $45. Mine’s lasted over 26 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-worth-more-than-you-paid/666225.md?page=2)