When Derek Semmler issued an open invitation for guest authors, I was really excited to do a post for his site.
Also Derek was generous enough to say that the topic could be anything, so I wondered whether to do my usual great prices/discount post or to do one of my list posts. Then I thought to myself I have not done one of those ‘most expensive‘ posts for a while (which basically tells us that a lot of people in the world have more money than they know what to do with) so maybe I should do one of those.
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Finger Painting
Now if you tell me that an expensive painting is a great investment and that my money would double in a few years, sure I’ll think about it, but a lot of paintings are valued insanely high: the Mona Lisa for instance, is estimated to be worth some $670 million!
But that is only an estimate if it were sold.
The highest price fetched by a painting is $149.7 million (that is an estimate of what the price would be today)!
The mind boggles!
If I had that kind of money would I spend it on what appears to be a birds’ nest? Well that was a rhetorical question.
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Cinderella’s Slippers
The most expensive shoes now cost a staggering $2 million!
I know that every self respecting fashionista wants to be well shoed, but 2 mil, even if they are one-of-a-kind 4˝-inch stiletto sandals studded with 565 platinum-set Kwiat diamonds (which include 55 carats of clear diamonds and one big 5-carat stone) designed by Stuart Weitzman?
Wish I had the money though!
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Not Your Ordinary Bag
The other fashionista thing is the bag right?
Well plonk down a cool million for this bag made from platinum and studded with only 2000 diamonds.
Wouldn’t mind having it, but where would I go with it?!
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Don’t Hold This Wine In A Paper Bag
That Chateau Lafite is the Rolls Royce of wines is a given; but to pay $160,000 for a bottle of 1787 wine?
You had better save it for a really special date; and who knows if it is even drinkable! I mean just look at the bottle.
A good pair of jeans can almost be like a good friend, but would you pay $85,000 for a pair?
Well a pair of jeans by Levi’s studded with gold, diamonds and rubies are worth that much! But again, where would I wear them?!
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Vintage Or Dirty?
Now one source for good value for money graphic tees is here, which I recommend, but would I pay 13,000 bucks for a pre-owned T shirt?
(Did you notice it does not look very clean?)
In a word No!
You know what they say, money is the root of all evil today, well I would not mind a little of the evil 
What do you say?
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Derek, it is nice to see my post on your blog. Thank you.
Nicole Prices last blog post..Plan for Halloween
Nicole, thanks again for the guest post! It was great having you share a post here and I am in agreement on the things that I can do without, lol – now I just need to convince my wife of that too.
I can do without these expensive things also lol.
those shoes are pretty….
I can definitely do without these things, but I wouldn’t mind having the money to buy them, LOL!
I totally agree Ling, although I do know a few people who would probably really like those shoes…
Other than that, the other pictures actually didn’t even look like anything worth buying.
I’ll just stick with cheaper wines and…hey, I just got an idea *goes off to look through my
oldvintage t-shirts to find a couple to sell*Nicks last blog post..Quality vs Quantity – After a Lapse in Posting
Lol, i thought that post title was: “Most expansive things i CAN’T do without”, and when i started reading i was shocked
. But then i realized that this is wish list 
. I wouldn’t have anything against any of these item… But even if i would have money for them, i wouldn’t buy them…
haha, me too. i read it the same way!
echo echo echo. derek, i hit submit once, idk why it showed up twice. when you get a chance, can you delete this comment and one of my echo comments? kthx.
haha, me too. i read it the same way!
I don’t know, I do not think I could live without my Cinderella’s Slippers!
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)) fun stuff Cinderella’s Slippers!
I recently saw a diamond encrusted bluetooth headset which cost about $50,000. Now that I can do without
Insanity! I actually laughed out loud at the “nest” muse.
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Wow 2 million dollars for a pair of shoes.
Think I’d rather have the money
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