You could buy
You can buy one of the following:
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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand ($a18,720 thousand) from wikipedia -
Taxpayer funding of UK political parties
Yearly spending for policy development for £2 million ($a16,220 thousand) from electoral_comission -
All humans replaced with replicas made from butter
All humans replaced with replicas made from butter for £2,195 thousand ($a17,800 thousand)
Buy each rat in New York city
You can buy each rat one of the following items:
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Prescription medicine items
Cost charged by the NHS for an item of prescription medicine for £7.40 ($a60) from source -
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 thousand duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 ($a13,340) from wikipedia -
2 thousand Rooms at The Langham Hotel, London
Bed and breakfast in Classic Room at the Langham Hotel, London. for £310.80 ($a2,520) from source -
1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 ($a706.90) from source -
800 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 ($a502.70) from waterstones -
1 One cube of tap water one meter in size
One cube of tap water one meter in size for £1.37 ($a11.10) from hardcoded