Back for 2023: What's the best £1 you've ever spent?

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I bought a Silver 925 antique necklace for £1 in a silent auction, I probably didn't do as well as I should have for the selling of it where I made £30, 300% profit not to be sneezed at!

LunaLater

Not £1, it was £10 but I’ll post it anyway.

In 1989 my chemistry teacher told me not to waste £10 to apply to Oxford, as it’s “not for people like you.”

I ignored her, was accepted, and left with a 2:1 in physics.

The return on that has been immense.

RobM99

2 x 50p for a sad looking pair of....





Chilli plants! Nursed them back to fighting-fit and bingo!

paulie576

Last year 50p for a great condition first press of The Beatles Please Please me single on the old red parlophone label from a car boot.
Sold for £200+on a well known auction site.
I don't normally sell any vinyl,but couldn't turn this one down.

NornIronRose

I needed a couple of wee occasional tables and was looking for a few weeks. 
Popped down to the chazzer by work and there was a nest of 2. Old pine but clean and do the job. Will upcycle when I cba! 
£1 for both! 

dutchcloggie

zagubov said:

Bought the Whatsapp app for my phone back when it was 79p. Let me do tons of really useful communication things with my phone.
Mind you they eventually  lowered the app price to zero pence.
Which leaves me wondering who's paying to keep them going?

Facebook bought them. YOU are paying for them to keep going because using WhatsApp means you give a lot of information to Facebook, which they then sell to advertisers.

NobbyTucker

I paid about 80p for four boat tickets to take my family through a cave to see the lake where they filmed the original Tarzan series with Johnny Weismuller. It was stunning. Family memories are great.

B54

Bought a pair of trainers in John Lewis sale reduced from £90 to £29 , got to the till and they came up as 29p and JL had to sell at that price !

B54

Bought a pair of trainers in John Lewis sale for £29 reduced from £90 , got to the till and they came up as 29p and they had to sell them at that price , had my card ready to pay and paid with cash instead !

NannyJaffaCakes

About 5 years ago I bought a lovely full length 'going out' dress (priced at £49 previously) for £1 from a shop that was closing down. I wore it a few times and then put it in a local charity shop and I hope someone else enjoyed wearing it as well :-)