There are very few items money can’t buy. With cutting-edge technology and extravagant innovations just a click away, the possibilities for spending obscene amounts of money on over-the-top purchases are endless.
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Whether you’re in the market for diamond contact lenses or luxury ice cubes, there is no shortage of ways you can waste your money. From fast food to a ripe banana, here are six of the most outrageously impractical purchases people have made over the years.
Nothing says you’ve got a frivolous amount of money to spend like unspooling a roll of gold toilet paper during your bathroom routine. For what is typically a disposable household item, spending over a million dollars on toilet paper is probably considered a useless financial endeavor.
This product, which is made by the Toilet Paper Man in Australia, is made up of a three-ply roll of 24-carat gold flakes. Buying just one roll of this will let you figuratively flush money down the toilet, but don’t worry, as it is currently out of stock. However, this suggests that people have actually purchased it.
While a four-piece order of McNuggets costs only $3 or so (or a mere 75 cents per nugget), one particular nugget sold for a jaw-dropping six-figure sum.
“In 2021, someone paid nearly $100,000 for a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget that was offered on eBay with a 99-cent opening bid,” said Nora Curl, fine art and antiques expert and accredited appraiser for justanswer.com. “The Chicken McNugget was part of a promotional package with BTS, the Korean pop band, and resembled a character from a video game called ‘Among Us.’”
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Fine art often commands sky-high prices, but when the art piece consists of a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall, its artistic merit — and price tag — becomes hard to justify.
“In 2019, the talented and witty conceptual artist, Maurizio Catalan, shook the art world by duct-taping a ripe banana to a wall during the annual Art Basel Fair in Miami,” Curl said. “The art piece is entitled ‘Comedian’ and it obviously requires replacing the banana each time before it rots to mush. In 2024 a Chinese cryptocurrency founder bought the rights to ‘Comedian’ at a Sotheby’s auction for $6.24 million.”
Just DIY this masterpiece at home and save yourself over six million dollars.
