Visualise how much an amount of money is worth (by seeing how much you could buy with it).
£100k can buy all of the following:
1 UK Member of Parliament
Yearly Salary01/04/09£6476610 sofa
Woburn Medium Sofa, Pamplona Cranberry03/06/09£1850 × 10 = £18500Information from John Lewis3 hours of Jodie Marsh
HireDecember 2006£3500 × 3 = £10500Loan $2500 to Ramil Aliyev in Baku, City, Azerbaijan
to buy spare parts for his car2010-05-03US$2500 (£1566)Information from Kivaand
2 Oxford English Dictionaries
20 volume dictionary20/10/09£750 × 2 = £1500