33 Astronomical Purchases That’ll Make Your Credit Card Go Limp
These credit cards swiped right and matched with multi-million dollar toys
![33 Astronomical Purchases That’ll Make Your Credit Card Go Limp](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/9/931659_320x180.jpg)
We don’t know about you guys, but whenever we order our oat milk latte and almond croissant (the reason we’ll never retire, we know, Uncle Larry), our hands get a little bit trembly as we reach out to tap our credit card. Kristen Wiig probably won’t pop up screaming, “Approved,” but on the rare occasion that it is approved, her voice rings out in our heads for sure. These ultra-rich folks with their ultra-extravagant toys, on the other hand, will probably never know that feeling. The affluent bastards.
![CRACKED.COM Rich people have the option to not get rained on during their wedding day... ...because they can opt for 'cloud seeding' service, which utilizes the expertise of pilots and meteorologists to add substances into the clouds, forcing them to rain ahead of time for the cheap, cheap price of $100,000.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/919447.jpg)
![Do you find it strange having CRACKED.COM multiple stylists? HOW ABOUT A STYLIST JUST FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE? SOME CELEBRITIES PAY UP TO $80,000 ANNUALLY TO HAVE THEIR CHRISTMAS TREES DECORATED BY PROFESSIONALS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/919448.jpg)
![In 1968, billionaire Howard Hughes was paranoid that a photographer could secretly take pictures of him from the neon sign of the Silver Slipper, which was across from his Desert Inn penthouse in Las Vegas. So he bought HALL the casino for GA $5.4 ING million SLIPPER ($39.8 million AMOSS adjusted for inflation), and then sealed the door accessing the sign. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/919445.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Media tycoon Sumner Redstone is reported to have given 1.5% of his net worth to various mistresses during a 'monogamous' engagement to his then-fiancee. Said woman's civil suit against Redstone alleges the following payments occurred: $21m to aspiring TV producer $18m to CBS flight attendant $6m to the flight attendants' sister $7m to an unnamed model $6m and a job at Showtime to his grandson's friend All in the course of a five-year period!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/919444.jpg)
![Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged sweater sold for $334,000 The garment of the late Nirvana singer holds the record for the most expensive sweater sold at auction. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/919443.jpg)
![Marty McFly's Hooverboard went for $500,000 The prop from Back to the Future // was signed by Michael J. Fox and significantly outsold the estimated $80,000 to $100,000. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/919446.jpg)
![Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany dress sold for $807,000 BLANCTOR Audrey Hepburn's original working script for the film sold for even more, a whoppin' $847,000. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/919442.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM So your cat died, but you can't bear to go on without him? For $725, you can have your cat taxidermed. But if that price sounds too upper-middle-class, $25,000 will get you a clone. Both procedures cost even more for dogs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/919441.jpg)
![Celine Dion needed a $2 million humidifier. CRACKED.COM She had Caesar's Palace install a humidifier above the stage during a three-year residency, to keep the desert driness from withering her precious vocal cords.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/919436.jpg)
![Kim Basinger bought a whole-ass town. CRACKED.COM In 1989, she went full Schitt's Creek and jointly bought a small town in Georgia for $20 million. 6 years later, she was bankrupt, and her shares were sold at auction.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/919434.jpg)
![Katy Perry bought a ticket to space. CRACKED.COM Back when they were engaged, Perry bought Russell Brand a $200k ticket for a Virgin Galactic flight for his birthday.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/919435.jpg)
![Paris Hilton bought a $325k doghouse. CRACKED COM Even if you didn't know that Paris Hilton had a custom duplex with designer furniture built for her dogs that cost more than the average house... surely, deep down, you suspected it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/3/919433.jpg)
![Thomas Jefferson had a million-dollar wine habit. CRACKED.COM Не spent over $1 million per year having that good European wine imported to the states. Impressively, he only died about $100k in debt.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/919432.jpg)
![Heidi Montag spent $10 million prepping for the apocalypse. CRACKED.COM Montag and husband Spencer Pratt were so sure that the world was ending via asteroid in 2012, that they started spending (and tipping!) lavishly. When the world didn't end, they had to move in with Pratt's parents.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/8/919428.jpg)
![Elon Musk bought a submarine car from a Bond movie. CRACKED.COM Wet Nellie sounds like a playground punishment Musk got every day of his childhood, but it's the nickname of the car featured in The Spy Who Loved Me, and only set him back about $1 million.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/1/919431.jpg)
![Larry Ellison owns a Hawaiian island. KAUA'I NI'IHAU O'AHU MOLOKA'I MAUI LÄNA'I KAHO'OLAWE HAWAI'I ISLAND In 2012, the founder of Oracle bought 98% of Lanai for $300 million. The island is 90,000 acres, and includes a town inhabited by 3,200 people. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/0/919430.jpg)
![Will Smith's trailer is roughly the same size as an average European house. Its luxury, however, supersedes most homes. For the price tag of $2.5 million, he got a high-tech mansion on wheels complete with a custom-made marble kitchen and leather seats and ceilings. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/7/919427.jpg)
![Ken Griffin bought a penthouse for $238 million. $ S S The hedge-fund manager's purchase broke a record for the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S. Oh, and it's not even his permanent residence, because according to his spokesperson, he just needed a place to stay when in town, since his company was expanding in New York. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/6/919426.jpg)
![Amancio Ortega, founder of Inditex-- who owns the fashion line Zara - purchased two office blocks in Seattle for $740 million. They were being leased by Amazon, making him Jeff Bezos' new landlord. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/5/919425.jpg)
![Mukesh Ambani, the 13th-richest person in the world, reportedly spent upwards of $100 million on his daughter's wedding. The event was attended by many celebrities and politicians, including Hillary Clinton. There was even a performance by Béyonce. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/9/919429.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The family of the Sultan of Brunei owns a forgotten collection of 2,500 supercars. BN516 BQ 205 PO 28 The family has lost interest in the collection, and there are no plans to sell it or turn it into an exhibit, so it's literally rotting into oblivion in a big compound. Over 2,000 of the cars are beyond saving.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/4/919424.jpg)
![Mark Zuckerberg buys houses next to his. In order to have control over who lives next to him, Zuckerberg bought four different properties next to his Palo Alto home for around $30 million. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/2/919422.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Australian billionaire Clive Palmer wants only the simplest things in life. Such as building a $472 million functioning replica of the Titanic.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/3/919423.jpg)
![CRACKED COM In 2015, billionaire Liu Yiqian purchased an antique ceramic cup (which he casually uses to drink tea from in this picture) for $36 million using his Centurion credit card. The purchase earned him 421 million American Express points, which could be converted into 28 million frequent flier points - enough to fly him and his wife around the world more than a thousand times.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/0/919420.jpg)
![Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia's richest man, lives in a $50 million steel-and-glass structure nicknamed the glassle. The top two floors are all glass. On-site aides greet visitors with Welcome to the James Bond house. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/9/919419.jpg)
![King Salman of Saudi Arabia has a golden escalator that he uses to descend from his private plane. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/8/919418.jpg)
![MUKESH AMBANI BUILT A HOME FOR AROUND $1 BILLION. The richest man in India built his 400,000-square foot private residence in Mumbai. It has 27-stories, a garage with space for 168 cars, three helipads on the roof, gardens spreading over three floors, and many other ridiculous things. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/2/1/919421.jpg)
![Rich people requests ANOTHER 747 PLEASE A company modified several 747s for one customer, who purchased a new one because his spiritual advisor told him that one of his current planes was bad luck. Не let his wife use the bad luck plane for her personal travel. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/7/919417.jpg)
![Rich people requests EXTRAVAGANT HOME MOVIES Travel company Black Tomato paid a prominent Hollywood cinematographer $665,000 to film a family's sailing trip through the Indonesian Islands. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/6/919416.jpg)
![Rich people requests WINE FROM A SHIPWRECK For a rich couple's dinner, travel company Black Tomato hired celebrity chef Eric Ripert and a sommelier who served a port that he found on an 1800s shipwreck. It wasn't even a milestone or a birthday or anything. It was easily a $300,000 dinner. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/1/5/919415.jpg)
![Cribs of the rich and famous Michael Jackson's Neverland A ZOO. A train. An amusement park. Only for $200 million. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/9/919409.jpg)
![Cribs of the rich and famous Nicolas Cage's islands Cage spent seven million dollars buying a small strip of islands in the Bahamas. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/0/8/919408.jpg)