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[Aqizzar]

Since I've got that kind of time, in my random browsing I came across something interesting today.

For just the low low price of 720 Euros, you can possess a glove made of basking shark skin.  Basking shark skin is famous for being covered in barbs, so you might think, "That sounds like a badass weapon."  You'd be wrong, because the barbed side of the leather is on the inside of the glove.  With the barbs pointed inward.

Should you put your hand in, you will discover that the thorns, all directed to slant inward, will lock your hand in place in the manner of, ten thousand fishhooks.

Because nothing says 'commitment' like a glove that costs a small fortune and can't be taken off without very carefully slicing it to pieces or degloving your hand.

It poses the question, "WHY?"  The answer of course is, "When you've got that kind of money, lack of need for hands, and ennui to burn the real question is, why not?"

Tell me of decadence my friends.  Tell me of the most extravagant purchases you've encountered, or even better, the things you've bought just so you can say you bought it.

[FearfulJesuit]

I think my best nominations are all from my bookshelf, although I'm cheap so they're expensive only in a relative sense. My $80, 16-volume (and these are big, big volumes) 1913 11th edition Encyclopędia Britannica (with 1924 12th edition supplements), perhaps. My copy of The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America or my accidentally autographed copy of Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich? More convincing if they weren't ten bucks each.

I think the cake goes to my two-volume, $50 two-volume Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem. Why, my friends? Well, because it was huge, it was massive, it looked great on my bookshelf, it was from a language family I find fascinating.

I'm not very decadent, I'm afraid. My clothes are mostly thrift-store purchases, 'tho as my sense of fashion evolves, I may have to get myself some white seersucker suits since I'm moving to Oklahoma.

I did once look into buying a pickelhaube, but they cost about $150 and people will accuse you of being a Nazi.

My family have a good number of inherited antiques that would probably be viewed as decadent when purchased- we keep our napkins in a 16th century German chest, and have a sketch portrait of Teddy Roosevelt autographed by the prez himself. Alas (or fortunately, seeing what my grandmother has done with her share), while the antiques have been passed down, the money that bought them is long gone.

[Max White]

Pretty good for a spambot, I would give it a 7/10.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm still going to go with the $10 spherical icecubes. Though the true absurd extravagance comes into play with gold food. Yes, as in, food with gold in or on it. Gold that you are intended to eat along with the food. I'm not even sure if it's safe to eat gold.

I personally don't have that much decadence. In fact, I kind of practice spartan living these days (something I only noticed when everybody who saw my dorm had the same initial remark: "Where's all your stuff?").

[Aqizzar]

Pretty good for a spambot, I would give it a 7/10.

You gotta admit, I went to a lot of fucking trouble to ingratiate myself before turning the floodgates open to generate clickthough for my sponsors.  At least give me that credit.

[Zrk2]

I'm buying post-secondary education. That's expensive and increasingly useless. Marvell at my extravagance.

Pretty good for a spambot, I would give it a 7/10.

Totally not a spambot. Aqizzar has been here since roughly forever. He was well established when I just lurked, years ago.

[freeformschooler]

One time, at the Next to New Shop, I'd brought a friend. Now, this friend was never known for decadence. In fact, she was flat broke and unemployable, surviving off a credit card and her ex-husband's guilt. We browsed around for thirty minutes until she saw It.



If I recall correctly, "It" was some sort of god-awful wireframe statue. I think it was a baseball player but not any player in particular. As soon as she saw It, she had to to have It. And for some reason, this had to be one of the most expensive pieces that raggedy old thrift shop had ever carried. It was as if the person in charge of printing the price stickers knew this magnificent work of rusted iron had a soulmate.

That person was right, and It still holds my friend's beer to this day.

[MaximumZero]

Wolfeyez and her family are into what I would consider decadence. They're planning a trip to Disney this October, taking me and my daughter with them even though I haven't know them that long, and Wolfeyez herself has been talking about taking me to a baseball game for my birthday. A professional game. My favorite team, even!

Madness!

[Max White]

I invited a friend to the movies and because I had some money, got us both Gold class tickets once. Shit was pretty good. Not worth it to go alone, but totally with friends.

[misko27]

Wolfeyez and her family are into what I would consider decadence. They're planning a trip to Disney this October, taking me and my daughter with them even though I haven't know them that long, and Wolfeyez herself has been talking about taking me to a baseball game for my birthday. A professional game. My favorite team, even!

Madness!

Sounds to good to be true. Just wait, you'll get there and find she's a spambot, and you're actually here to hear about this one really cool trick to save money on your car insurance.

Anyway, the award for decadance in my eyes goes to the $25,000 Dessert. With real golden leaf!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Wolfeyez and her family are into what I would consider decadence. They're planning a trip to Disney this October, taking me and my daughter with them even though I haven't know them that long, and Wolfeyez herself has been talking about taking me to a baseball game for my birthday. A professional game. My favorite team, even!

Madness!

Sounds to good to be true. Just wait, you'll get there and find she's a spambot, and you're actually here to hear about this one really cool trick to save money on your car insurance.

Discovered by one local doctor. Single moms hate her!

[LordBucket]

Hmm. I have surprisingly few stories, but I'll share two. One from me, one from a friend.

I once bought a sailboat. Had it for two years and in all that time I went sailing...once. But I wanted a boat so I bought a boat. The "decadence" is much diminished, though, by the fact that I eventually ending up living on it. Turns out sailboats make excellent bachelor pads, and if you have guests over to drink and party on your boat it's much easier to put the BBQ on the dock rather than try to cook with it on a boat moving and bouncing on every wave.

I have a friend who collects watches. $5000 - $20,000 watches mostly. Cartier, Rolex, etc. That's all well and good, but when you have that many watches they tend to run down, because they're powered by the body motion of the wearer and you only wear one at a time. Once you get past seven, even if you rotate out watches every day it's still a week between wearing any one watch twice. And what happens if you like one more than another so you wear it more often? Some watches end up losing their wind. So...in order to keep them all powered he has a special show case that he keeps his watches in that keeps them constantly rotating so that they stay powered. Of course, the case has room for 20 watches, and it would look tacky to have a bunch of empty spot in his watch case, so naturally he had to buy more watches in order to fill the case. Which, in a way is good, because he was collecting watches anyway, and that gave him an extra excuse to buy watches he wanted to buy, but knew he wasn't generally going to wear.

[Flying Dice]

Pretty good for a spambot, I would give it a 7/10.

Totally not a spambot. Aqizzar has been here since roughly forever. He was well established when I just lurked, years ago.

I'm really hoping that this is just a Poe cascade and not what it appears to be. :x

[MaximumZero]

Wolfeyez and her family are into what I would consider decadence. They're planning a trip to Disney this October, taking me and my daughter with them even though I haven't know them that long, and Wolfeyez herself has been talking about taking me to a baseball game for my birthday. A professional game. My favorite team, even!

Madness!

Sounds to good to be true. Just wait, you'll get there and find she's a spambot, and you're actually here to hear about this one really cool trick to save money on your car insurance.

That would be extremely disappointing, to say the very least.

[Flying Dice]

Wolfeyez and her family are into what I would consider decadence. They're planning a trip to Disney this October, taking me and my daughter with them even though I haven't know them that long, and Wolfeyez herself has been talking about taking me to a baseball game for my birthday. A professional game. My favorite team, even!

Madness!

Sounds to good to be true. Just wait, you'll get there and find she's a spambot, and you're actually here to hear about this one really cool trick to save money on your car insurance.

That would be extremely disappointing, to say the very least.

What if it works? Because saving money on your car insurance is totally better than a relationship. Not that I would know, as I have neither.