Halloween Holiday

Did you know that Halloween is considered as the second most commercially successful holiday? Shops and entrepreneurs tend to earn money during halloween. Halloween candies, for example can average two billion dollars in sales in the United States alone.

Besides buying candies for trick o treaters, people also spend money on costumes, decors (jack-o lanterns, candles, cobwebs, etc) parties and Halloween invitations on halloween.

Most Expensive Sofa

A stainless steel sofa by Israeli- born designer Ron Arad currently holds the distinction as being the world's most expensive sofa. The highly polished Europa stainless steel sofa is worth more than 300,000.
Whoever buys this sofa also have to deal with a hard, non-cushioned, cold and uncomfortable seat.

Most Expensive Lighter

Many low end cigarette lighters can be bought for less than a dollar but the price range of the 3 x 6.5 x 0.8 cm Caran d'Ache Ecaille Chinese Lacquer gold plated lighter can be as high as $2,100 making it the most expensive luxury lighter in the world. More expensive than a bottle of appetite suppressants: the world's most expensive lighter

Most Expensive Donut

A donut offered for bidding on ebay by the staff of the morning show KMHX-FM in Houston made it to become the most expensive donut in the world. The "official Roula and Ryan Show hot, glazed, delicious, shipley donut" was sold for $5,200.00 US dollars.

A doughnut usually sells cheaper than a box of the best weight loss supplement but the world's most expensive donut was also sold to help raise funds for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina.

source: http://xpensivethings.blogspot.com/2009/07/donut.html

Mouse Uses $20 Bills to Make Nest

A mouse managed to get inside an ATM in Oregon and built a nest inside using chewed up 20 dollar bills (which could have been more than enough to buy faucets). The mouse has torn up two bills and damaged 14 others for its nest .

The bank already replaced the money that were not extensively damaged and the ATM continued to work just fine. The mouse was also already evicted although it still remains a mystery how it got inside the automated teller machine.

Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/169348/Mouse-builds-nest-in-Oregon-ATM-with-20-bills

Baby Walker Ban

The Canadian Health Minister in 2004 announced a ban on baby walkers because of more than 1000 reports of babies being injured while using baby walkers. The most common accident happens when babies fall down the stairs. Canada is the only country that has banned the use of baby walkers.


Other countries, on the other hand, ban chewing gums, smoking in public places and the Hydroxycat fat burner.

World's Most Expensive Laptop

In 2007, Luvaglio of London released what is considered the world's most expensive laptop.

The laptop has a 17-inch wide-screen LED display with an antiglare coating; 128 GB hard drive, blu ray player and of course laptop memory. It also has a self cleaning feature and has a security feature that requires you to insert a colored diamond into the power button to start it up.

The cost? $1,000,000 USD.

source: http://xpensivethings.blogspot.com/2008/04/laptop.html