# What is the most expensive item you own **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 16, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072 "2009-10-16T19:27:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/21 "2009-10-17T05:37:42Z")
Either a silk Persian carpet, or my framed collection of banknotes from 70 or so countries, which, although I have converted them into art, if exchanged for USD, it’d probably be over $10K. ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/22 "2009-10-17T07:16:18Z")
An interesting question. After a quick inventory, _my couch_ at around 2 grand is the most expensive thing I own? What a suprise! I guess that it is good that every member of my family uses it everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/23 "2009-10-17T08:22:09Z")
My mountain bike is worth about $7,500. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/24 "2009-10-17T13:09:28Z")
Several items between $5K & $10K apiece. Furniture, original art, muscial instruments. I don’t think I’ve got any single item which cost over $10K. Although I’m about to spend well north of that on some landscaping which is really just one big item plus some accessories. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/25 "2009-10-17T13:17:42Z")
Probably my dog, Nick. $1000 as a puppy, and he has 9 points toward his championship and 2 legs toward his junior hunter title now. I could probably sell him for a couple grand if I wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/26 "2009-10-17T14:09:50Z")
Our family-room couch, which is US-made and leather. Our bedroom furniture (like the OPs) is Stickley. A small fortune in both cases but the furniture (especially the bedroom stuff) will become heirlooms. We have no expensive electronics beyond the computers which were each less than 2K. Our TV is 18 years old and cost 400 new (it’s a 19 incher which was a good size then). ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/27 "2009-10-17T14:10:57Z")
I have two original canvases by E.C. Bell that are worth about $2—3,000. each. I knew E.C. dog years ago and bought these two pieces off of him when he was hard up for cash for about $100. each. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/28 "2009-10-17T14:15:27Z")
My single most expensive purchase that wasn’t a house or a car would have to be my [land](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2449907090_4eac07ef48_b.jpg). I bought 80 acres years ago with the intent to build a strawbale house on it. It’s still unimproved, but is hopefully worth what I paid for it - $30K. After that, my G5 Quad cost $3K (now worth $1K), and I have a sculpture that cost $2,200. I also have an oscilloscope that originally cost $30,000, but I got it used for only a grand. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/29 "2009-10-17T14:17:23Z")
My 50 inch Plasma TV that I got about 7 years ago. I think it was about $7000 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/30 "2009-10-17T15:17:25Z")
My mom’s (second) wedding ring is said to have cost five figures. I haven’t had it appraised though, so I don’t know. So aside from that, I’d have to say my watch. (I priced them recently, and they’re now going for twice what I paid for mine new.) ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/31 "2009-10-17T17:00:07Z")
[Probably my bicycle.](http://www.koga.com/nl/bike.asp?collectionid=11&segmentid=90&id=8884547) Which I did get at a discount. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/32 "2009-10-17T17:09:20Z")
My Nikon DSLR/10.5mm fisheye lens combo cost around $1550 a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/33 "2009-10-17T17:11:30Z")
Crikey! How’d I forget my camera? :smack: An Aaton super-16 camera, two mags, two batteries, and an Angenieux lens is the most expensive thing I have. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/34 "2009-10-17T17:20:04Z")
My good flute, then my old flute, then my laptop. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/35 "2009-10-17T17:46:40Z")
Must be a set of six Waterford Crystal tumblers that were a wedding gift to my great-great-great grandfather [Thomas Andrews](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_(scientist)) in 1846. I’ve no idea what they’re worth. I doubt I can prove the provenance, though. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/36 "2009-10-17T18:14:21Z")
Probably my wedding ring. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/37 "2009-10-17T18:27:34Z")
Even accounting for depreciation, probably my laptop. I’m a man of simple tastes. I’ll probably be getting a new bike soon, and it’ll probably be worth more than my laptop, but my current bike has been hit even harder by depreciation than the computer has. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/38 "2009-10-17T18:56:12Z")
My husband had a time in his life, early twenties, when he bought a lot of expensive toys, mostly musical instruments. Guitars, a Roland keyboard, electronics…We now have the guitars hanging on the walls, as decoration, and the Roland is used as a [toy for our baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiOnaP8eGpQ). He accumulated a debt of over 8000 USD over those things, which took him ten years to pay off. The stuff is not worth anything anymore now, but it is nice to have. Our kitchen remodeling cost 13000 euros, so that makes the kitchen the most expensive thing in the house. But if that doesn’t count, the most expensive thing is the 1200 USD flatscreen tv we bought two years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/39 "2009-10-17T19:30:54Z")
50" plasma TV, £1200. Stereo - mixed components from Electrocompaniet, Shanling, Marantz, Toshiba and Jamo - \>£11,000 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/40 "2009-10-18T00:26:12Z")
My diplomas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072.md?page=3)