Counting Pennies

If you thought the flying car was a little expensive (I don’t, honestly!), you’ll be shocked to find out what other things cost. It seems that despite the crumbling economy and the shaky salaries, extravagant luxuries are still being bought and sold all over the world all the time. Like for example:

• Paying $3,829 for a haircut. London stylist Lee Stafford charges this for an exclusive men’s cut done at his home. Champagne included.
• Or dishing out $200,000 for the first G.I. Joe action figure. I mean… really? The original 1970 prototype is owned by a private collector.

• Compared to that, Barbie #1 may seem a bargain at $8,000. Of course, you can also buy the 40^th anniversary Barbie (produced in 1999) for $85,000.
• Anybody who knows me knows I have a weakness for bags. No shoes, no clothes. Just bags. So paying $27,700 for a Fendi bag somehow doesn’t scare me too much. Except that is made of crocodile leather, which seems too cruel to make it worth it.

• William Shakespeare’s signature is the world’s most expensive autograph, which may make sense since there seems to be only six of them in the world, none of them currently for sale. Auction price is estimated at $5,000,000.
• I love cheese. Love it. So much, in fact, that I may be tempted to pay a lot more than “normal” people would for a pound of special cheese. Not this one, though. It’s moose cheese. And it costs $900 a pound. And you have to go to Sweden to buy it.
• And if you thought making movies was expensive, just let me close with this price: $690,000. Sounds too low? Maybe, until you understand that that’s what a private collector paid for a movie POSTER in 2004. A poster. Just paper. It belongs to the 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis, and is one of only four in existence.

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