To ask , what has been your most expensive purchase?

[BigSteve]

Apart from house

I would say my laptop cost £800 so probably that.

Vet fees for our dogs. Somewhere in the region of about 7k probably, and didn't save them

My degrees
My wedding

My Macbook - £1,250.

House
Renovating said house
Ivf
Car

Car £16k easily the tops after the house. Dog or skiing kit is possibly second both over £1k. I don’t have much else in my life in terms of expenses tbh, I go skiing a couple of times a year and spend a lot of time in the car so for me value for money. Might have to reassess if I ever have kids though.

Current car. £85k for an Audi SQ7 that I don't really like anymore.

Baby grand piano. £6.5K.

Never spent that much on a car or anything.

I got knocked off my bike and my hand was shattered - had to have screws put in and everything.

Got compensation and instead of investing the money wisely I blew the lot on a Kawai!

I've had it about 5 years now - every single time I sit down to play I can't believe I've got it!

My wedding . Wedding dress. Wedding rings. Venue. Meal. All individually the most expensive thing ever but then we put them all together!

Car, at £15k.

Sofa was a couple of grand.

Oh, and house renovations. They were pricey too.

I've been fortunate enough to afford a number of big expenses over the years but 15+ years ago I spent 7k on a wedding dress.

I'm still married but that expenditure feels ludicrous today.

My education. University is expensive, but for me it was worth it.

Besides houses and cars:

School fees ☹️
£2000 on a mulberry handbag.

Aside from the house...
10k on a car
3k ish on 3 months volunteering in africa
Generally a few thousand a year on holidays pre dc - now cottage breaks in the uk so not much...

After house and extensions it would be the car ...it was around £25k....

My car. It’s a Ford Mustang and I am a middle aged woman. I suspect I look absurd and it would have been cheaper to have an affair with a 25 year old. But I just don’t care because it makes me irrationally happy every single day.

Aside from the house (including extensions, refurbishments and maintenance) and cars, the most expensive items I've bought have been art works.

As an ongoing outlay though, as opposed to a single purchase, the "children" win hands down! I have never calculated it exactly, but in the last 15 years we must have spent a small fortune on the kids - on their weddings, on helping to finance house purchases, paying for house improvements, Christmas and birthday money, monetary gifts when grandchildren were born etc etc.

I've just spent 16k on a car.

Next probably my sofa at 3k

I'll get years out of both though.

Aside from property, my wife's engagement ring paid for with a big chunk of the cash I saved whilst serving in Afghanistan. I like to look at it as something she'll wear every day for decades so only a pound or two a day.

My engagement and wedding rings come to £1k. Other than that - home renovations. We will have spent £50k going up the place and it only cost £100k to buy!

DH has paid for all the big purchases, so I suppose a Phil & Ted's pushchair, which DH thought we didn't need. (I so did, best purchase ever). Actually, I did buy an expensive carpet for our large living room last summer.

I can't tell you how much it cost as I just handed over my card and stuck my finger on my ears and said "Blah, blah, I can't hear you." to the salesman in the shop.

Excluding house and works done on house - ( first house was a money pit despite survey and all the basics needed to be done)

MSc - got me into industry I wanted had to pay fees and 12 months living costs and paid loan all back within a few years.

Wedding - but that broke down into series of bills but all told very tiny do and still cost about 3K.

OU courses - all added up and done before huge price hikes.

Holidays - last on accommodation nudged 1.5 K and travel there and items on it would make that more - takes all year to save for as is mainly so expensive has to be in school holidays and there are a few of us.

School fees for 2 children

My car was an 18 birthday gift, we rent our house, DD is only 7 months and a lot of her stuff (pram, cot, wardrobe etc) was kindly bought for us by DP's family. I haven't actually paid off any of my degree get as I haven't started working so I've managed to avoid lots of big costs so far

Biggest costs I can think of:
Car repairs a couple of weeks ago - £700
2 weeks interrailling around Switzerland - £800
University trip around Europe - £500

House
Car
Horse
Horse box
Driveway
Saddle
Camera
Laptop

Not all at once, over a 25 year period..

@quinnie. Our piano was £6.5k too although it's an upright (Grotrian-Steinweg) and it sounds lovely, at least it does when DH is playing it. A good piano is worth spending on and ours gets used every day. My MIL bought a baby grand (very cheap one, a few hundred) that sounds awful but she thought it looked nice.
Other than piano, car (obviously) and engagement ring.