Which hit its peak in 1966. 
Threads like this are why I love the Dope. 
“Batman’s a scientist.” “It’s not Batman!”
Best purchase? My 1979 Chevy Vega station wagon. I still mourn.
When I got married in 2004, we had the event at a local coffee house. Rather than rent champagne glasses for the toast, we bought 100 champagne flutes at Ikea at a price of $10/dozen. We brought them over to the place and the owner said “can we buy these off of you after the event?” We agreed, of course, since we’d have to find some way to get rid of them, and asked what he would give us for them. A buck a piece was his offer.
We turned a profit by buying those flutes.
ETA, this is the second time in a week I learned that Melbourne was once called Batmania.
I think that buying a solitary winning ticket in a multi-state lottery like Powerball or Mega Millions would have to qualify as a “best purchase in history”. You might not be the richest person in the world afterwards, but it would definitely be the best $2 investment you could ever ask for…
I bought a plain, but solidly built wooden dresser for $8 from Fran’s Antiques and Collectibles many years ago, and it has served me well ever since then.
Definitely the best purchase in my history.
Loewen may be wrong. But it is true that whoever sold the island thought they were selling hunting rights, more or less.
Pretty much Napoleon had the right to sell us the Purchase.
To be honest, if you were a early 2000s-era AOL shareholder, you did turn a bunch of worthless paper into a 55% ownership stake in an actual company, so that was a pretty good deal. Might not rank as the “best” purchase in history, but not bad.
The day before our multi-community transfer station doubled the price of the pay-as-you-throw trash bags, I showed up at the gatehouse with my checkbook, and bought a whole case of 250, 33-gallon bags. He looked at me like I was nuts, and I was just as incredulous when laughed he told me no one else had done that. I didn’t buy bags for another 6 or 7 years, and weathered a third price increase in the interim.
They still use the same bags, and now I wish I’d bought 500. My best investment ever.
In 1995, Jeff Bezos conned his parents into a $250,000 investment in his startup. As of 2018, their shares were worth about $30B, a 12 million percent increase.
Caroline Lacroix was a 16 year old prostitute whom her lover Antoine Durrieux decided to pimp out to high paying clients after he accumulated a few hundred dollar debt due to horse racing. One of those lovers turned out to be King Leopold II of Belgium, and he showered her with gifts and cash (including 6 million dollars of blood money from the Congo Free State), when the King finally died in 1909 he left her with over $7,000,000 dollars (about $190,000,000 today) and afterwards she went back and married her pimp Antoine Durrieux again. However a few years later she decided to divorce him, though she left him a million dollars from her inheritance (about 27 million today). So basically about a $200 debt lead to Antoine gaining over 27 million dollars.