I have read a lot of trip reports of RTWs and though I want to stop at most of the destinations, I wanted to see how much something like a 7 day RTW cost in F.

I chose oneworld and priced it on the AA website:

DFW->LGW (AA)
LHR->SYD (BA) (stop in SIN)
SYD->NRT (CX)
NRT->DFW

and it came out to be $25,557.

How do folks afford to go on such flights? That's a cheap car, a few years of college, or a nice down payment on a boat.