Might be the pool table. We got it for free when some acquaintances moved out of state and didn’t want the hassle of taking it along. We’d been pricing tables for a long time, but could never bring ourselves to spend the money (which is good, seeing as how we hardly use the darn thing anymore).
Next would be the leather couches. I’ve blocked the actual price from my memory, but at least a couple thousand dollars.
PC.
The single most expensive component being the Graphics card. Geforce GTX295
My wife is into photography. When she is using her Canon 5D with her 70-200mm lens, she has about $4K hanging off her neck. If she were to lose her fully packed camera bag … I don’t even want to think about it.
The scuba gear collectively cost over $10,000. I don’t remember what the single most expensive item was. Probably the drysuit.
My watch (Omega Constellation), slightly beats out PC and TV.
Probably the Rothko. The Raffael is a high quality work, but he’s still alive.
I surmise from this that one of the following has to be the case…
You have a really crappy PC and TV.
Your watch enables you to time-travel.
You paid too much for your watch.
You would be wrong, on all counts, then.
My art collection. It’s fair to say it’s worth high five figures.
My 3 shooting irons, they’re not all fine Purdeys, but they’re not too shabby either.
Seeing as this is essentially a politely phrased pissing competition, not bad for somebody just into their third decade. Work hard at school kids!
Ya know, I reall didn’t intend it as such, nor do I read it as such. For whatever reason I was thinking about my finances, net worth, and possessions, and I was really kinda surprised that no single thing I owned was worth more than a couple of thousand. And I feel like I have a lot of nice stuff - certainly everything I need and pretty much everything I want. (Only thing I want is a $2500 car.)
I occasionally see catalogs or TV shows or auctions featuring jewelry, art, or other indvidual objects costing $10K or more. I was simply curious how many folk owned such pricey items - and perhaps whether they inherited them, bought them, or whatever.
I found the range of responses - and the openness of the respondents - quite interesting.
One of them has to be correct.
I am guessing you don’t have a crappy PC and TV (since you can afford to pay too much for a mere time-telling device)
And I think it is safe to assume your watch doesn’t do much more with time than simply tell you what the current time is.
Therefore you paid too much for your watch.
I’m sorry, I don’t remember running over your dog.
Watches are male jewelry in addition to being mere time-telling devices. Do you balk at women that prefer diamonds to cubic zirconia, too? How about people that drive Lincolns when you could buy a P.O.S. Kia at 1/3 of price for something that merely transports you?
I think the unspoken outstanding issue is the price of an Omega Constellation…I thought they ran a few thousand US Dollars, but I no longer wear wristwatches (even though I love them as gear/toys) so what do I know?
No, you’re in the ballpark, which does make it pricier than a TV or a PC.
But the larger point: if we’re discussing value, then that’s entirely subjective. If we’re discussing price, that’s determined by the market. In either case, the watch is not overpriced or overvalued.
And if it’s good enough for James Bond, it’s good enough for me.
(which was a bonus. I had the watch before Bond revealed, in Casino Royale, that he wears an Omega.)
Ours would be our apartment buildings, although the bank owns most of them. Next in line would probably be the bedroom furniture we just spent about $5000 on.
Bond has always worn Omegas, but Seamasters, not Constellations.
My biggest splurge ever was a dining room set for $1200 on clearance. It was my first and only “real” furniture!
May I say - DAMN! I’m 49, and was obsessed with the Apollo missions when I was a kid, and would love to have had the opportunity to meet those three gentlemen, let alone come away with a memento like that.
About this being a pissing contest - I mentioned my expensive video camera earlier? That is the only thing worth more than $1000 I own. I have no car, I rent my apartment, I build all my own computers (apart from my laptop). But I needed an excellent video camera and (unlike some) know how to use it and know every button and knob on that sucker. My situation is like a carpenter owning a Milwaukee drill, or a car mechanic with a big box filled with Snap-On or Mac tools - you’ll save money over the long term by owning one quality tool that lasts.
Man, I dunno…how much would a plastic fish signed by Kurt Vonnegut, and a plastic ear signed, circa Blue Velvet, by David Lynch go for, nowadays? Seemed important at the time…