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

MSE_Laura_F

In the 2022 thread, some of the top examples you told me were:

• "In the mid-1990s I spent £1 on a Moulinex hand mixer at a thrift market, and it's still going strong today!"
• "30 years ago in a charity shop I bought what I thought was a cheap bracelet for £1. An evaluation showed it was Gold and Topaz and worth £460."
  
• "I spent £1 on a nice wool jacket at a car boot sale. I wore it the next day and was pleased to find about £4 in change in the pocket."
  

I'd love to hear about more of your £1 bargains. Send 'em this way.

annabanana82

£1 entry to top secret comedy club, with Jack Whitehall and Paul Chowdary performing 

af1963

Paid £1 (or maybe even 99p) in 2015 for a phone app that tracks and maps my skiing - distance travelled on skis and on lifts, altitude, location, speed etc.  Have now used it on over 100 days, so daily cost has been under 1p.  And I think I only spent the £1 because I had some phone credit I needed to use up before switching providers.

patient_investor

Bought one Bitcoin for £1 in 2011.

Dizzy_Ditzy

I bought a cashmere cardigan at Tesco eight-ish years ago. It was when they had their big £1 sales on 

zagubov

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?

sarahj1986

£1 for a pregnancy test in February. I’m 18 weeks pregnant with my second 

sleepymans

I bought a wind class stamp for a postcard entry to an itv competition bought a 2nd class stamp (2018) for a postcard entry to an itv postal entry competition….won £52k 😲

CatieE

A friend bought a ring from a charity shop for £1 thinking it was good quality costume jewellery. A few years later she found out it was quite valuable, and when she sold it, gave half of the money she made to the charity shop where it was purchased.

flow2

I bought 2 x heavy lead crystal vases, off an auction site for 99p, as they were collection only, and found out, they were a rare pair, from the early 1900’s and worth a few hundred pounds! I kept them though.

Murphybear

I haven’t had the luck of some of the others sadly.  My best £1 spend was buying a nice wool jacket for a £1 at a big market/boot fair a few years ago from one of the traders.  i wore it the following week and found nearly £4 of change in one of the pockets.  Good profit percentage wise