Strangest Things People Insure

Have you ever loved something so much you just had to insure it? It could have been something small but you couldn’t bear the thought of losing it. A lot of celebrities and athletes have had the same thought. Strangely for them however, it sometimes includes themselves, or parts of themselves.

Merv Hughes, for example is a famous Australian cricketer known for his excellent handlebar moustache. It’s so great that it’s worth $370,000. That’s one expensive shave! People have also insured their faces. The supermodel Claudia Schiffer has a face worth 5 million dollars. Why wouldn’t you insure that?

You may not think it could get any stranger than that but it does. At the peak of his career, singer and lady-swooner Tom Jones was known for his beautiful chest hair. So he insured it for $7 million!

For a longer list of strange things people have insured, check out this infographic.

This infographic is brought to you by Budget Direct, an Australian insurance company that focuses on “cutting the cost, not the cover”.  House and contents insurance is one of the many things that Budget Direct excels at so be sure to check them out.

10 Impressive Celebrity Engagement Rings

Engagement rings symbolize the great love between a man and a woman. It shows that the person has already found someone whom he or she intends to marry and spend forever with. It is for this very special reason that engagement rings need to be beautifully designed.

High-caliber celebrities have the means of buying expensive engagement rings to profess their intentions of marrying their partners. To give you an idea on how much they are willing to spend and what their designs are, Brilliance provides this infographic about the top ten most expensive celebrity engagement rings. It has details of which celebrities received these rings and their cost and there are even some bits of trivia about the equivalent of each ring if their value were to be spent for more common things. And if you want to buy a ring that is similar to any of these celebrities, Brilliance offers them at a lower price.

Source: Brilliance.com

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