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Have you ever sat and pondered what you would do if you have an exorbitant amount of money?
Ponder no longer!
With your mass of money, you’re going to enjoy the luxuries of any of these ten extremely
bizarre, everyday items made and plated in gold!
10.
Christmas Tree Deck the halls with boughs of…
Gold?
Move over, holly, because there’s a new Christmas décor about to take over and it’s
all the craze for people with millions to spare.
In 2012, a jewelry store in downtown Tokyo decided to show its Christmas spirit the only
way it knew how – by creating a tree made purely of gold.
At 8-feet or 2.4-meters high and 3-feet or 1-meter in diameter, this golden Christmas
tribute cost $4.2 million to produce.
Nothing says “Spirit of Christmas” like a gaudy tree decorated in gold-plated silhouette
cutouts of 50 Disney characters.
9.
Slinky What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs
and makes a slinkety sound?
Probably not this 14-karat gold-plated Slinky, designed and distributed by the creators of
the original childhood favorite.
For about $99, we can’t assume you’d want to throw this pricey collectible down a flight
of stairs.
This shiny gold Slinky is not your childhood toy and ships with an acrylic display box
to ensure you’re less tempted to straighten it.
The real question is: Are there devoted Slinky collectors out there that find this gold-plated
version a necessity?
8.
Pacifier You’ve heard the phrase “born with a silver
spoon in your mouth”, but what about a golden pacifier?
Ulubulu, a company that specializes in baby accessories, may have given headway to a new
idiom with the designing of a diamond pacifier made specifically for Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie’s baby girl, Shiloh.
With 278 white diamonds, the pacifier is also made of 18-karats of European white gold.
The $17,000 pacifier is not just for display either, as it is outfitted with a real silicone
nipple and a movable handle.
Thanks to Ulubulu’s Personalized Pacifier line, you can even bling out your baby!
7.
Personal Massager Ever wanted something made of pure gold betwixt
your nethers?
LELO, a Swedish purveyor of adult products, has the answer for you in the form of a 24-karat
gold-plated personal massager known as INEZ.
For a measly $15,000, you can enjoy some truly pleasurable alone time while your wallet cries
in the corner.
LELO’s line of designer personal products extends to the TIANI couple’s massager and
the YVA mini-massager.
If you’re looking to save a few bucks on the INEZ, you can go for the stainless steel
line to save about $7,100. 6.
Shirt Everybody likes to look their best, but what
if your best cost $250,000?
Datta Phuge and his obsession with gold and looking good led him to purchase a 7-pound
or 3.1-kilogram shirt made entirely of gold.
For a man that loves to be draped in gold, the quarter of a million-dollar shirt proved
to be a coveted part of his collection and despite what you may think, the shirt was
more comfortable than it looks.
Designer Tejpal Rankar based the golden cloth on an Italian weave and was stitched with
velvet lining for maximum comfort.
Unfortunately, Phuge’s time with the shirt was cut short when he was murdered over an
alleged business deal, despite typically being surrounded by personal security.
5.
LEGO Imagine waking up in the middle of the night
and, while still very sleepy, stepping on a LEGO.
Painful, right?
Now imagine the same scenario, but that LEGO you step on is a $15,000 solid gold version
of said LEGO brick.
That’s one very expensive foot destroyer.
Back in 1980, the LEGO company started giving out these 2x4 14k solid gold bricks to employees
that had 25 years of devoted service behind them at the Hohenwestedt factory in Germany.
The brick was extremely rare, so it’s unlikely you’ll find one lying about; but for a reasonable
price, you can definitely take part in ruining somebody’s night.
4.
Cheese Love cheese?
Do you like to spread it on crackers as a light snack while you binge-watch Netflix?
Why not do it in style with Long Clawson’s White Stilton Gold Cheese.
For just $429, you can enjoy a pound of this highly sophisticated cheese, which is comprised
of edible gold leaf and gold-flecked Cinnamon Schnapps.
Known for being the most expensive Stilton cheese in the world, this gold-infused delight
was released for a limited time during the 2011 holiday season.
3.
Pills Now here’s a different take on this whole
“Gold” craze that we didn’t expect to come across.
The late concept artist Tobias Wong and Ken Courtney, best known as Ju$t Another Rich
Kid, created a pill that allows you to have gold coursing through your body.
For the biology majors with us on this list, you may have figured out by now what that
means, but for everyone else, what goes into your body typically comes out, and in the
case of these gold pills, you’ll be experiencing a rather luxurious bowel movement.
At a cost of only $425, you can enjoy golden excrement... if that’s your cup of tea and
if you are so moved.
2.
Toilet Bowl If you spend upwards of $5 million on a toilet
bowl, there’s a small chance that your priorities are a little out of whack.
Displayed at the Hang Fung Gold Technology showroom in Hong Kong, this solid gold crapper
was created in 2001, is a full 24-karats, and acts as the centerpiece of a bathroom
made entirely of gold.
For a chance to just use the toilet, guests need to buy $138 worth of jewelry.
That sounds like a pretty steep price to pay to sit on a seat that is pretty much guaranteed
to always be freezing.
Other golden John’s have popped up elsewhere, including Kim Kardashian’s mansion and the
Guggenheim Museum.
1.
Toilet Paper Should literally throwing money down the toilet
be your thing, we can think of no better addition to your household than the 22-karat gold toilet
paper from the Australian Toilet Paper Man company.
At an incredible 3-ply, a roll of this opulent sewer paper runs a cool $1.3 million.
The product is described as being the most expensive toilet paper in the world.
The golden paper produces gold flakes as it’s used, flakes that will speckle your floor
and your behind for the most magical and sparkly bathroom experience you could ask for.
According to the website, only one roll is available and it is delivered personally with
a bottle
of Champagne.