Near this price
You can buy one of the following:
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House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (COL$734,300 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Hours of magistates court
Running costs. Image: Jonathunder. for £400 (COL$1,167 thousand) from source -
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Thumb
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (COL$43,770 thousand) from source -
1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (COL$4,801 thousand) from wikipedia -
600 Tubs of Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant
55 gallons of lube for US$1,495 (COL$2,844 thousand) from source -
1 Enough gold leaf to cover your body
Cover your body with a single layer of gold leaf for US$968 (COL$1,842 thousand) from amazon -
100 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (COL$180,900) from waterstones