(CNN)With
a spare $185 laying around and a serious lack of creativity, anyone can
waltz into Office Depot and drop some cash on 13,300 paper clips.
For
anyone who doesn't want to saunter into work and make it rain paper
clips like the patron saint of office supplies, you can spend that same
money on just one.
Prada created a sterling silver "paperclip-shaped" money clip, which Barney's
is selling for $185. At 6.25 centimeters long and 2.25 centimeters
wide, Prada's magnum opus clocks in at just over $13 per square
centimeter.
Unsurprisingly, people on Twitter were less than impressed.
"$185 for a paperclip? This thing better be able to hold my life together," one user tweeted.
The clip is really only
useful if you regularly carry at least $186 in cash. As another Twitter
user noted, "By the time I buy the paperclip, there won't be enough for
it to hold."
If your need to treat yourself is limited by your budget, Barney's sells two variations for $150.
The Prada paper clip is just the latest addition to a long line of unnecessarily expensive items from elite designers.
A blue tote bag from Balenciaga
went on sale earlier this year for $2,145 -- over 2,145 times the cost
of Ikea's original 99-cent bag that looked strikingly similar. And in
December, Nordstrom sold out of a leather-wrapped rock -- literally a rock -- priced at $85.
But
if you're still planning to blow your paycheck on the clip, don't fret:
"Prada" is engraved on one side, so no one will mistake the $185
investment for its one-cent counterpart.
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