Get ready to enjoy the most incredibly expensive and utterly
useless things billionaires like to spend their money on.
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Ever wondered what do people buy when money is really no
object? It turns out they buy some pretty ridiculous stuff.
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someone spent on a simple scribble!
Number 10 - A $6 million golden toilet
It was reported that a solid gold toilet was stolen
from Britain's Blenheim Palace, the birthplace
of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The toilet has a value reported of £4.8 million or $6 million.
The toilet taken in an overnight raid was considered an art piece,
although fully functional as a working toilet.
Made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan,
and interestingly titled "America," the toilet was made of
eighteen-karat solid-gold.
The perpetrator has not been found, but at least
he is using a loo to be proud of.
Number 9 - A $24,000 haircut
Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei,
dropped more than $24,000 for a haircut in a difficult time.
For one of the world’s richest men, it’s hardly
a snip to his wallet, but at $24,000 it could be the most
expensive haircut ever.
Worried about catching Swine Flu,
the Sultan made sure that his barber didn’t mix with other
passengers on the plane and hence paid £11,000 ($18,000)
for a private luxury cabin for him.
The hairdresser, Modestou, runs a barbershop
at the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, central London, and
usually charges £30 or $40 for a trim.
But the 74-year-old Sultan – one of the richest men
in the world – pays the barber thousands every
time he makes the 7,000 miles round trip to Brunei.
The Sultan has been going to Modestou at the
Dorchester for years, sometimes every three to four weeks.
The Sultan often flies him first-class,
costing about £9,000 each time.
The Sultan pays for everything: hotel, luxury food
and hands the barber an old school envelope thick with cash.
With a net worth of 20 billion, a flu-free haircut
likely feels like a worthy spend.
Number 8 - A roll of gold toilet paper for $1.38 million
Imagine a roll of toilet paper but instead of being
printed with dollar signs, imagine it in pure gold.
This millionaire expenditure isn’t one to take seriously. How rich do
you have to get before you start buying toilet
paper made from real gold?
This 3-ply roll of toilet paper is made up of 22-carat
gold flakes. It is actually safe for use and
is sold for $1.38 million.
Impress your guests to embark on a
thousand dollar flush.
Number 7 - A magnetic-floating bed for $1.6 million
How much would you pay for comfort,
especially if you were filthy rich?
How about $1.6 million for a one-of-a-kind
bed floating in the air?
Well, Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars
designed the perfect bed for you.
Ruijssenaars apparently spent six years of his
life designing this bed that can be suspended entirely by magnets.
But does a bed hanging in the air, actually
mean a better night’s sleep?
This bed uses magnets to levitate to 1.3 feet off the ground, and the
mattress can hold up to 2,000 pounds.
But again, where does comfort play in all this? Or is this mattress
simply designed to impress?
If $1.6 million for a bed is still out of your big budget,
then why not try the affordable $146,000 version?
But at one-fifth the size of the regular model,
it's unfortunately only the perfect size to elevate your
cat or dog in slumberland.
Number 6 - A $3 million window
It’s common knowledge that wealthy homeowners are
willing to pay for a view, but in this case,
it came at the price of a few additional homes.
But this unusual window is no ordinary piece of glass,
or so they say.
This window was allegedly the one used by the
sniper that shot JFK.
But what’s worse, no one can confirm that this
window was indeed the one used by the sniper,
so there is an ongoing lawsuit.
Whoever purchased this window with their
loads of extra cash, might’ve just gotten ripped off.
Number 5 - A $3.2 million dog collar
If diamonds are a girl’s best friend and dogs
are a man’s best friend, and you’re a millionaire
and have plenty of cash to spare,
then it’s natural to dress up your animal in diamonds.
Luckily for you, there’s a variety of designer
collars available for wealthy pet owners from I Love Dog Diamonds.
Not by the most original brand name,
but the La Collection de Bijoux by I Love Dog Diamonds
fills lavish dog owners with joy.
Specifically, the Amour, Amour dog collar
is the most expensive and costs $3.2 million.
he Amour, Amour dog collar is 52 carats and encrusted
with 1,600 individual diamonds. The collar has platinum
and crocodile leather and is designed to impress even
the most wealthy of dogs.
Make sure your dog doesn’t run away if he uses this – otherwise,
you can be sure you won’t be seeing your dog,
or the collar, again.
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Number 4 - A $14,000 tea bag
Tea is one of the most inexpensive drinks any
person can afford, next to the water, so it’s only natural
to make then one of the most
expensive tea bags in the world.
This tea bag is encrusted with diamonds and was made to
commemorate the 75th anniversary of
Brooke Bond’s PG Tips.
Notably one of the most popular tea brands in the UK, PG Tips
wanted to give themselves literally a high five - with diamonds.
The tea bag is covered in 280 diamonds and can
be used to brew tea, having actual tea leaves inside.
But the downside of a diamond-encrusted tea
is that you only get one use out of each bag.
And what do you do with a $14,000 used teabag?
Seems like $14,000 literally thrown away.
Number 3 - A $22 million signature
Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan belongs
to the royal family in the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Hamad has his own island, Futaisi Island,
and you might be surprised to hear the island itself didn’t make
it to this list, but the signature that he had put on it.
He wanted to make sure everyone knew that
this beautiful island was his, so he decided to have his name
formally etched into the ground of the island.
What better way to be remembered than
to have your name engraved on a two-mile-wide portion
of your private island?
The moniker was carved so deep that waterways
even formed and the letters were a full kilometre
tall in some places.
The name was so large that it was visible
from space, but his ultimate goal was to be seen from the moon.
We don’t technically know exactly how much it costs;
Business Insider suggests a price of about
$22 million for this namesake.
But the most puzzling part of all is that in 2012,
an image from Google Earth shows that the name
appears to have disappeared.
We aren’t sure how worthwhile an investment
that $22 million was after all.
Number 2 - A $48 million diamond encrusted Mercedes-Benz
It’s a stereotype of wealthy oil sheikhs to exude their copious
wealth.
This remarkable car is a favourite example of that.
In the middle east, it’s become popular for the rich
to dress up garish ultra-luxury cars. Whether they’re
royals or simply wealthy oil
tycoons, these private vehicles are a grand expense.
The supposedly diamond-covered Mercedes-Benz was originally
worth about $4 million before the over-the-top bling, taking the car’s
value up to nearly $44 million, certainly the most expensive case
we’ve ever seen.
Around 2010, rumours began to spread that Saudi
Prince Alwaleed purchased a Mercedes-Benz made completely
out of diamonds and even charged people $1,000 to touch it.
Number 1 - A $500 million super jumbo jet
Buying a private jet is pretty standard
millionaire behaviour. If you
travel a lot then it’s definitely not as useless as a million-dollar
window, but still a luxury expense.
But it could get questionable when upgrades
cost nearly 180 million, including jet space for horses and cars.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal did just that.
After shelling out $319 million for a double-decker jet, he increased
his bill by nearly a third to make some additions so he could travel
with all his horses and his two Rolls Royce’s on board.
It’s hard to imagine where he might travel that he would need both
the horses and the cars, but that’s the joy of being rich, it doesn’t
have to make sense, it’s simply fun to splurge on a luxury expense.
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