1. Private Carribean Island
Cost: from $200,000
Buy Online: CaribbeanIslandBrokers.com Three guesses what Caribbean Island Brokers sell? The real surprise is that the cost of your own tropical paradise could be lower than you think. For $200,000+ - cheaper than the average British home - you could own a slice of paradise. | |
2. Virgin Galactic Space Flight Cost: $200,000
Buy online: VirginGalactic.com
Beardie Branson's going to be offering space flight for the masses. The cost? A cool $200,000 to be one of the fist 1000 punters, or a $20,000 deposit if you can wait until the first 1000 have been up. | |
3. Fly a Fighter Jet
Price: $11,950
Buy Online: AirCombatUSA.com
For $11,950, you and nine buddies can live out your Top Gun fantasies in California. But what price being able to use the phrase "you can be my wingman anytime" in context? | |
4. Fortnum and Mason Tercenturian Hamper
Cost: £20,000
Buy Online: FortnumAndMason.com
The Queen's fave grocer celebrated their 300 year anniversary in style in 2007. Delivered by horse drawn carriage (we're serious), the hamper includes foie gras for 25 and enough champagne to flood London. | |
| 5. Cohiba Behike Cigar Box Price: £8,800 Question: What’s the fastest way to see your money go up in smoke?
Answer: Spend an evening puffing your way through all 40 cigars in the £8,800 Cohiba Behike Cigar Box. | |
5. Guerlain’s KissKiss Gold Lipstick Price: $62,000
Buy Online: Guerlain.com Getting upstaged by your lippy isn’t something that happens every day. But then again, it’s not every day your wallet puckers up for the $62,000 smacker delivered by Guerlain’s KissKiss Gold and Diamonds customised lipstick. | |
| 7. Carl F Bucherer Alacria Wildcat Watch Price: $70,000
Buy Online: Carl-F-Bucherer.com The only way the Alacria Fancy Diva Wildcat Watch will be tamed is if it’s tied down… to your wrist. Cough up the $70,000 along with that hairball and get simmering, tiger. | |
8. Mane Yu Price: $5,000
Buy Online: Mane.com Yu (meaning ‘rain’ in Chinese) by Mane is the most expensive perfume on the market. For your $5,000 you will be one of only 500 lucky souls to spritz this heaven-scent limited edition fragrance. It is housed in a crystal bottle. Of course. | |
9. Ruby Television Price: $75,000
Buy online: OpulentItems.com This ruby-studded HDTV is the ultimate way to bring some bling to the small screen and for $75,000, it’s all yours. Careful those jewels don’t blind you though – you still want to be able to watch the thing… | |
10. Luna Desk Price: $12.885
Buy online: Spacify.com
We’d be surprised if you did any work if you buy the Luna Desk With Leather Inlay. It’s tactile stuff at $12,885, but be warned: sexually harassing your desk is a sackable offence. | |
11. Bobbi Brown Luxe Brush Collection Price: $650
Buy online: NeimanMarcus.com Vanity a sin? With the Bobbi Brown 24-Carat Luxe Brush Collection it should be regarded as your most redeeming feature. At $650 for the set, glue yourself to the mirror and start getting your money’s worth. | |
12. Dinner at Vivat Bacchus Price: £1,000
Book online: VivatBacchus For the perfect night at London restaurant Vivat Bacchus, all you need do is loosen your belt and your grip on your wallet. Then sit back, relax and enjoy the £1,000-per-head menu. Conspicuous consumption itself. | |
13. Morel Fat Lady Speakers Price: $20,000
Buy online: Morel.com Morel’s ‘Fat Lady’ Speakers come with a $20,000 price tag and they’re worth every penny of the junk in their trunk. Who said it ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings? Why, it’s only just begun | |
14. Human Touch Massage Chair Price: $3,999
Buy online: HumanTouch.com
The Human Touch Massage Chair priced at $3,999 is hailed as being the world’s first zero-gravity massage chair. We envisage weights being lifted from shoulders and the feeling of floating. Where do we sign? |
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15. La-Z-Boy Spa Price: TBC
Buy online: La-Z-Boy.com La-Z-Boy are the deluxe relaxation experts. For an undisclosed sum (but you can bet your bottom dollar it’s mammoth) the Laz-Y-Boy Spa replete with flatscreen TV, floating controls, pillows and massagers is yours for the taking. | |
16. Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed Price: $50,000
Buy online: StarryNightBed.com The perfect night’s sleep doesn’t come cheap. At $50,000 the Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed earns its stripes with anti-snore capability, temperature control, internet connection, iPod dock and a widget to record your movement and breathing patterns. That is one hard working bed. | |
17. Expansion Op Art Cutting Board Price: $350
Buy online:DesignerCuttingBoards.com
They say cooking is an art form. With an Expansion Op Art Cutting Board, you can prepare your food on an art form. Priced at $350 – well, they say you’ve got to suffer for your art too.
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18. Life Mel Honey Price: £40
Buy online: LifeMel.co.uk Just £40 will make you the proud owner of one pot of Life Mel Honey. This is potent stuff, with reports it has a beneficial impact on cancer patient recovery. Apparently Kylie eats it by the bucket-load. Good enough for us… | |
19. Zagliani Oversized Ruched Clutch Price: £1,045
Buy online: HarveyNichols.com All that glitters is not gold; sometimes it’s silver and just as gorgeous. Bag yourself the Zagliani Oversized Ruched Clutch. We expect this £1,045 item to be snatched up within seconds. Just not by us. | |
20. Clover Coffee Machine Price: $11,000
Buy online: CloverEquipment.com Now just what makes the Clover Coffee Machine worth $11,000? According to coffee-boffins, the Clover concentrates all its efforts on making a single cup of utterly perfect coffee. Whatever. Who’s doing the Starbucks run? | |
21. Most Gorgeous + Rock Solid Tipi Price: $2,892
Buy online: DHLoveLife.com Happy campers, step this way. The Most Gorgeous and Rock Solid Tipi should satisfy your lust for the outdoors. Make like a Red Indian, trade some furs with the white man and make this $2,892 canvas creation all yours. | |
2. Fisker Karma Eco-Car Price: $80,000
Buy online: FisherAutomotive.com It ain’t cheap going green, an undeniable truth born out by the Fisker Karma - $80,000 worth of premium hybrid automobile. Powered by a generator, it can run on electricity alone. | |
23. Louis Vuitton Shearling Handbag Price: $3,850
Buy online: Mr Vuitton does it again with the $3,850 Monogram Shearling Handbag. We can’t help thinking a) there’s a herd of sheep fighting to escape and b) why buy something plastered with that infernal monogram? Answers on a branded postcard please… | |
24. Portraits in Platinum Price: $12,995
Buy online: PmPortraits.com A Laser Engraved Metal Portrait in platinum will set you back $12,995, but think on it as an investment. When times get hard, you can simply melt it down, sell it off and bingo – solvent once more! | |
25. Cartier Eternity Rings Price: $10,000
Buy online: Cartier.com Diamonds set in platinum. Gets the saliva glands going, no? For those of you dying to jam one of these Cartier Eternity Rings on your digit (or with a partner equally keen) we think $10,000 is a small price to pay for forever. | |
26. Burj al Arab Hotel Price: $105,000
Buy online: Burj-Al-Arab.com The seven star Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai is comprised of nothing but suites and makes the Ritz look like a Travel Lodge on the southbound M40. For a seven night stay in the top suite, expect to pay around $105,000. | |
27. Halcyon Jets DreamDate Price: $1.5m
Buy online: HalcyonJets.com Romance comes with a fat price tag these days, as the DreamDate package from Halcyon Jets proves. For a cool $1.5 million you can treat your squeeze to the ultimate Valentine’s Day. Or you can invest wisely and never work again, up to you. | |
28. Flawless Cocktail Price: $70,976.50 A night on the lash usually throws up a few spurious bar receipts, but imagine the shock if one said $70,976.50. That’s what would happen if you got a bit plastic-happy in London club Movida and ordered the Flawless cocktail. We’ll stick with the Stella top, ta. |
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29. 1787 Chateau Latife Price: £105,000 Riddle me this: when a bottle of wine costs £105,000, do you drink it, cook with it or do you just look at it? If you stumble across the Guinness World Record breaking bottle of 1787 Chateau Latife, then do let us know. | |
30. Almas Iranian Caviar Price: $23,308
Buy online: Caviar-Deluxe.com Almas Iranian Caviar (almas meaning ‘diamond’ in Russia) is the Holy Grail of caviar. It comes from rare beluga fish that are over 100 years old and are white in colour. Get yourself a 32oz gold tin for $23,308. | |
31. Lantic Systems RC1 Remote Price: $53,000
Buy online: Lantic-Yachting.com This is the RC1 Remote from Lantic Systems. It costs $53,000 and can control EVERYTHING. Email, air conditioning, TV, stereo you name it, it’s got it covered. It will even control your spouse/motherinlaw/unruly children. (Not really, but you can dream.) | |
32. Ralph Lauren Alligator Lock Dog Collar Price: $495
Buy online: RalphLauren.com For the pampered pooch, we present the Ralph Lauren Alligator Lock Dog Collar, ringing in at $495. That little bow wow is going to look divine. We suppose if you have to be padlocked up, you might as well do it in style. | |
33. Nike Air Force 1 ‘So Cals’ Price: $50,000 Outkast star Big Boi was presented with these diamond studded Nike trainers by some American retailers desperate to ingratiate themselves with cool hip hop types. Mere mortals can order them for $50,000. |
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34. Fish Art Coffee Table Price: $50,000
Buy online: DLTDesigns.ca Functional and aesthetically pleasing is how we like our art, and the Fish Art Coffee Table fits the bill on both counts. The $50,000 price tag might seem like a lot, but the dexterous and innovative design justifies it. Just. | |
35. Tiffany Softbank Mobile Price: $94,000
Buy online: Holly Golightly would have dined out on the Tiffany Diamond Studded Mobile Phone. There’s over 400 diamonds stuck to this baby, making it worth $94,000. All that sparkle is simply quite mesmerising, darling. | |
36. Hennessy Beaute di Siecle Cognac Price: $150,000
Buy online: Hennessy-Cognac.com Happy 100th Birthday Hennessy! To celebrate they’re their making the Beaute di Siecle cognac. Think $150,000 worth of limited edition birthday blend. Just don’t let the kids near the drinks cabinet. | |
37. 8 Dance Watch Price: 12,000 euros
Buy online: The 8 Dance Watch is a timeless timepiece that will have you mesmerised. Exquisitely designed by Gabor Kanabe, the white gold case, sapphire crystal display back and alligator strap make paying 12,000 Euro a bargain. Possibly. | |
38. Brompton in a Box Price: $12,000
Buy online: PinelEtPinel.com The Brompton is the classic commuter staple and now it’s been all neatly folded up into its own natty little box. Well, more luxury trunk actually. For $12,000 this is travelling with charm. | |
39. Bengal Cat Price: £25,000 You’d better make sure your pet insurance is up to scratch when you acquire a £25,000 Bengal cat. They’re the most expensive moggy in the world and apparently they will play fetch like a dog. Ummm, we sense identity issues. | |
40. Serendipity Grand Opulence Sundae Price: $1,000 Fancy an ice cream? Don’t choke on your wafer when you get billed $1,000 at New York’s Serendipity for The Grand Opulence Sundae. For your money you get 23K edible gold, dessert caviar and chocolate so rare it’s practically extinct. We feel a little sick. | |
41. Lee Stafford’s ‘Couture Cut’ Price: $1,925
Buy online: LeeStafford.com If your idea of fancy hair cutting is Toni & Guy, then Lee Stafford’s ‘Couture Cut’ priced at $1,925 will have you screaming for the hills. But for those of you not taking any chances with your crowning glory, Lee’s your man. | |
42. Jewelled La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream Price: $2,000
Buy online: ShopLaPrairie.com For $2,000 the Jewelled La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream is here to aid the quest for eternal youth. Dotted with 2,400 Swarovski crystals, the secret of this cream is apparently the fish eggs it contains. The lengths we go to for beauty… | |
34. Botanical Wall Tiles Price: $895
Buy online: Esty.com These beautiful porcelain Botanical Wall Tiles are by Heather Knight. Priced at $895 for a set of six, they are inspired by nature and modelled on flowers, plants and lichen. Surely the chicest way to cover up those cracks. | |
44. Silver & Champange Marmite Price: £165
Buy Online: Selfridges.com Expensive tastes should be satisfied all round with the Valentine’s Day limited edition Marmite containing Champagne. Pots with engraved silver lids cost £165. Love it or hate it? We love it! | |
