The best thing I have ever bought.....

[MrBen]

...is my new memory Mirrorfoam mattress! Seriously brilliant - I now look forward to going to sleep. You will never use a sprung mattress again. And at ?700 it is a bargain when you spend a third of your life asleep. And it changes your life.. So buy one. Now.

Anyway - what is teh best thing you have ever bought and why?

[HonaloochieB]

...was a drink for the mother of my son.

[Marmora Man]

Well I still have the tea and sugar jars I purchased for the first flat I bought back in 1979 - so tey've tood the tet of time. Have just bought an Ipod (first ever) and may soon start to thibnk this is pretty good too.

[jollybaby]

My rice cooker- soggy rice a thing of the past. Easily pleased

[PeckhamRose]

Bread machine from lilly on this very forum.

No, correction: my contact lenses. Changed my life.

No no, not those: it would have to be my motorbike. It is SO comfortable and I love it.

Orrr it could be the advert I paid for in Time Out all those years ago that found me MrRose!

[Keef]

My guitar. Although I still don't know how my effects board works properly 5 years after buying it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Series 1-5 of the Wire

Ok, seriously - Best Buy was - I did a major kitchen pots and pans haul in a now-defunct store in Peckham that was just mind-blowingly good value and quality.

[Strawbs]

My copy of Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking book.. changed my life!

[HonaloochieB]

Self-doubt and selfism were the cheapest things I ever bought.

[Brendan]

A plane ticket to England.

[Brendan]

One the best things to happen to England in a while as well.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Brenda renames herself, Modesty in a Blaze of Glory.

[Brendan]

Was that a reference to Modesty Blaise the comic strip or the theme song by Bon Jovi to the film Young Guns?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You know I'm an old timer. Can't be doing with that pseudo rock nonsense.

[Brendan]

Yeah but Bon Jovi?s like way old ya?know. From the ?80s innit.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Wotch it, sonny boy.

[jumpinjackflash]

My Panache gel bra ? fried eggs to melons in 0.3 seconds

[giggirl]

I own a lot of Vivienne Westwood clothes. I started buying them in the 80s when I lived very close to one of her shops. I don't wear most of them now but I'm slowly passing them on to friends who will cherish them and give them new life.

[Ant]

A really good pair of shoes.

/old codger.

[ratty]

My house!

[AcedOut]

A Nissan GTR...

...and then cancelling the order last week!

[Brendan]

A Datsun Skyline. Nice.

[RosieH]

If I say Marc Jacobs shoes I will sound shallow and vain? A very good set of german steel - chopping onions brings me more pleasure than is possibly normal.

Ultimately probably my freedom from a hideous, hideous job and stress-related alopecia - paying for it now in the freelance drought

[bigbadwolf]

My remote controlled helicopter.

Brick of Hashish along with an AK47 when I was working in Pakistan 2 years ago, loads of fun but I had to sell it before coming back which was a shame.

Tempur mattress of the TV which is apparently used by NASA, well the missus bought it.

Yamaha R1 1000cc motorbike although I'm still paying that off.

University education.

I want to get my private pilots license next year.

[RosieH]

what on earth did you do with an AK47?