Have you finished your holiday shopping, Liberal Americans? If not, here is a list of stuff you can buy for that special person (sarcasm sign held up!). Some of these are soooooo socially irresponsible!
1) A $1100 Silver Pronged HDMI Cord
For $333 a foot.
2) 4 Pounds of Caspian Sea Caviar ? $7700
Instead of saving for retirement, you could eat a tin of caviar. It’s fresh from the Caspian Sea.
3) 7 Bob Dylan Hand Signed Hohner Harmonicas ? $25,000
You could start your own harmonica band.
4) Super Duper Awesome Sigma Photo Lens ? $26,000
Because our iPhone cameras are not enough.
5) The Full 1st Edition Set of LOTR ? $38,500
Seriously, as a book collector, these would be set up in a shrine of their own in my home.
6) Birthing Simulator ? $68,000
In case you’re going to be delivering a baby anytime soon.
This game is from Asia and is quite popular. This board took over 20 years to make and is from a Kaya tree.
8) 4.34 ct. Diamond Ring ? $101,000
If you’re going to buy your ring online, sight unseen.
9) Zenith Academy Repeater Watch ? $110,000
You can sell your house to buy this. I’m sure it keeps accurate time.
10) The Food Vault Disaster Preparedness Kit- $390,000
I wonder if Glenn Beck gets a percentage of this?
11) Reverse Osmosis Walter Filtration System ? $474,000
Guaranteed clean tap water. For only half a million dollars.
12) 1792 US Coin ? $2.5 Million
Only?14 of these are still in existence.
13) Michael Jordan Card ? $35 million
Originally purchased for $4 this card is now for sale for a cool 35 Million.
14)?1907 No Mint Mark Saint Gaudens Ultra High Relief Pattern PCGS PR-69 — $3,750,000
The finest known $20 1907 Untra High Relief Gold Piece. It’s considered to be the most beautiful coin in the world and listed as #2 in the “Greatest 100 U.S. Coins” book. From Amazon:
It was conceived by President Theodore Roosevelt who commissioned the foremost sculptor of the age, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, ?to emulate the finest ancient Greek and Roman coiners. Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), who had done extensive commissions for many important projects including for the Worlds Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), replied that he would be pleased to follow the coinage concepts of ?ancient Greece.
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