# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/41 "2009-10-18T00:39:34Z")
My laptop is the most expensive thing I own. A distant second would be my glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/42 "2009-10-18T01:03:26Z")
My engagement ring. Even our bedroom set (the whole set) isn’t more than my ring. I love the ring. It’s classic. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/43 "2009-10-18T01:10:13Z")
Our daughter’s insulin pump. Best $6,000 ever spent. Yes, it doesn’t exactly belong to us: but she’s 10, so… After that, our computers. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/44 "2009-10-18T01:13:15Z")
My grandmother’s little walnut Art Deco dining room suite, from the 1930’s. It was estimated to be worth $8,000 about 10 years ago and if there was any justice in this world, it would be worth a whole lot more by now. I doubt it!.. Wish I could take it to Antiques Roadshow and be happily flabbergasted that it HAS risen in value! ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/45 "2009-10-18T02:25:29Z")
My college diploma, if that counts, by a _huge_ margin, followed by my violin, then my laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/46 "2009-10-18T03:09:46Z")
[Refrigerator](http://homeappliances.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/xl611g.jpg): $7500 [Gas Range](http://specs.retaildeck.com/CACHE/FILE11112.JPG): $7000 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/47 "2009-10-18T03:33:43Z")
My Canon XH-A1 high definition 3-chip video camera at $3000. It kicks ass and produces an astonishing picture. If I were any good at marketing myself, I could make a lot with it, but I wind up just shooting friends, relatives and bands I like. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/48 "2009-10-18T03:52:56Z")
My violin, I think. Don’t remember exactly how much it was (I was about 13 or so when I got it), but it’s up there. It’s a nice instrument. I don’t play it much anymore, but I can’t bring myself to sell it. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/49 "2009-10-18T04:52:41Z")
My e ring was about 15k and my wedding band 5k and my earrings are 5k. My Balenciaga bag collection, I think I have 6 of them. The jewelry is from the same collection by Michael B in pave diamond and platinum. I’m going to pass it to my daughter. Probably next thing would be my 63 inch plasma tv but I don’t remember how much it cost. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/50 "2009-10-18T05:05:11Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > My college diploma, if that counts, by a _huge_ margin, followed by my violin, then my laptop. I don’t think that counts. I mean, you can’t sell it. Points for lateral thinking though. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/51 "2009-10-18T05:20:13Z")
Hmm, I would say my jaw - over $6k in orthodontic treatments over the past 12 years - but **RNATB** would say no cuz I can’t sell it 😃 My one computer I’ve put maybe $600 in to over the past 10 years, but I built it myself and just keep replacing parts so it was never a single purchase. Probably couldn’t sell it for more than $200. Do household items like appliances count? My central air conditioner was expensive. When I buy a new fridge (the existing one was free), that’ll be the most expensive thing I’ve bought that is not a permanent fixture. If appliances or household mechanics don’t count, then honestly the most expensive single item I’ve ever bought was my iPod Mini in 2005, which was $249. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/52 "2009-10-18T05:43:15Z")
My [Yamaha Disklavier grand piano](http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%253D2116%2526CNTYP%253DPRODUCT,00.html), for which I paid about $30,000 back in 2000. A nice gift I gave myself out of a little windfall. (If I had bought a piano worthy of my skill as a musician, I would have gotten [this one](http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/wp-content/gallery/2009-09-11-dr-drew/02-toy-piano.jpg).) ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/53 "2009-10-18T10:44:24Z")
I afraid the most expensive item I ever owe is my custom built PC which cost me about SGD 1.5K Darn, I feel poor. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/54 "2009-10-18T13:58:58Z")
I was thinking and thinking then remembered we have a backhoe. It’s worth about $10 grand. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/55 "2009-10-18T16:37:33Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > (If I had bought a piano worthy of my skill as a musician, I would have gotten [this one](http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/wp-content/gallery/2009-09-11-dr-drew/02-toy-piano.jpg).) Hey, don’t knock toy pianos. [In the right hands](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZ_djY9_f8), [it’s a wonderful instrument](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9pYzFu9LY). ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/56 "2009-10-18T17:20:20Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Probably my 8-core Mac Pro. Me, too. Love it. I suppose I could say my college diploma, but I figure the computer would fetch more at a pawn shop. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/57 "2009-10-18T17:43:43Z")
Collectively: the books. Individual item: my Canon EOS 450D Digital Single Lens Reflex camera with 18-200 mm Tamron lens. I paid something like 600 euros for that, excluding accessories. The laptop I’m typing on now is a good second, at around 450 euros. Everything else I own is dirt and dirt cheap 😃 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/58 "2009-10-18T18:10:51Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Hey, don’t knock toy pianos. [In the right hands](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZ_djY9_f8), [it’s a wonderful instrument](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9pYzFu9LY). Make me feel even more inadequate, why don’t you? Thanks a lot! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/59 "2009-10-18T18:47:15Z")
Nothing too fancy in our house or safe deposit box, just a few designer pieces of furniture by eames, noguchi and nelson as well as a few FLW custom knockoffs. The Eames chairs are made from rosewood so that ups their value a bit. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072/60 "2009-10-18T19:07:52Z")
You know, except for my house and car, I own nothing of significant value. I can think of a few things I’ve paid a lot for, but none would be worth that NOW. My computer cost $1400 but it’s worth half that now; our kind sized bed was a couple of grand but I don’t think you can sell a used bed for much. None of our furniture was worth more than the computer and it’s all used. I own no antiques or collectibles of significance. My wife’s engagement ring is presumably worth about the same as I paid for it but that’s specifically hers, not mine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-expensive-item-you-own/514072.md?page=4)