Americans love barbecues…delicious meats seared to perfection make feelings that border on arousal for a red-blooded male. So here’s the reasonably-priced but questionably-useful Maverick ET 901 Remote BBQ Thermometer and Timer, available for $60. The device serves many of the necessary functions needed for great barbecue, measuring temperature and time needed to cook. But the main reason for its above-market price is the remote capability which allows you to monitor the food for extended periods of time from 100 feet away. As any good barbecuer, the type of person who’d invest in something like this, would tell you, it’s always a great idea to wander far away from the meat that’s currently cooking on an open flame. 7 out of 10 drunk fire marshals wholeheartedly agree.

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, at least if we’re to believe the propagandists at Kellogg’s. But if you want anything truly delicious, it might take a while. That’s where the $3500 ChefStack Automatic Pancake Machine comes in. Designed for busy restaurants or coffee shops, but available to the general public, the ChefStack will take your pancake batter and shoot out up to 200 pancakes an hour. Perfect for a busy cook or an obese person who’s always dreamed of eating their breakfast like the episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy worked at the cherry factory.

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What you see pictured above looks like an ordinary, attractive diamond. And at $8700 per carat for a canary cut diamond by Memorial Diamonds, it’s fairly close to market value. But the secret ingredient in making the diamonds is love. And by love, I mean the love you have for a relative, spouse, or pet because this diamond is made with the ashes of your loved one. With a process that involves creating a raw diamond crystal using the carbon from your cremated ashes, then cutting and polishing it, you can make a diamond with the same properties as a natural one with the power of science. Which is great, because I was really feeling as though my diamonds don’t have nearly enough dead guy in them.

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In spite of recent beliefs that she does more to damage women’s perception of themselves rather than aid it, Barbie is an icon. So to celebrate previous anniversary of the doll, De Beers designed the $85,000 Diamond Barbie. With miniature white gold jewelry and an outfit with 160 miniature diamonds, this Barbie doll (which looks absolutely nothing like any Barbie dolls I’ve seen) is ready to hit the town. Well, she’s actually extremely underdressed to enter any place that doesn’t have the name of a mint and an exotic animal in neon lights above the door, but still, you can’t put a price on whorish luxury.

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Perhaps it’s an unreal expectation on my part, but I think Paris Hilton is smarter than she lets on to the world; she’s pretty much the first nobody to brand herself well enough that people think she’s a real celebrity. But then I see something like Paris’s $325,000 Custom Dog House and can’t help but think, “Oh. My bad.” The dog house is two stories, with the inside decorated entirely pink and comes with furniture from Philippe Starck, air conditioning, and a crystal chandellier. The bottom floor is for hanging out and, presumably, entertaining guests while the upstairs is the bedroom area as well as a closet for all of the dogs’ clothing. More importantly, this dog house is more valuable than over 70% of the full-sized homes of the country. Quite an accomplishment for a house in which the occupants are likely to defecate on the floor at any given moment. Typically that’d fly only in Kentucky.

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