what one-off extravagant purchases do you have ? *not a gloating thread*

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A friend of a friend lives in Greece and has recently brought themselves an underwater sea scooter. A top of the range one. They are not well off by any means, but could afford to treat themselves to this. It looks a real smart piece of kit.

It got me thinking, we don't have any one-off extravagant purchases. Not that you have to have any, of course. There has just never been anything we have really wanted, with the exception of a new car. But this thread is not about buying to that level.

*edited to add this is a no judgement thread

A few years ago now, a large prehistoric tortoise cast in bronze. I had seen him (now known as Spike O’Saurus) outside a little metal worker’s shop in France, but the price tag was so 😱😱! (can’t bring myself to quote it) I walked on by.

The following year, however, he was still there, same price tag, but luckily dh agreed that this was a case of ‘sod it!’
So we sodded it.

I’ve since wondered whether the metal worker set the price so high because she didn’t actually want to part with him.