Near this price
You can buy one of the following:
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Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (COL$254,400) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (COL$180,900) from waterstones -
1 Enough 1p coins to cover your body
Cover your body with a single layer of UK one penny coins in hexagonal close-pack formation for £12.58 (COL$36,730) -
100 Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (COL$8,755) -
1 McFlurry
McDonald's Ice Cream for £1.20 (COL$3,502) -
