Reply to post: Me - a HK$50,000 SCMP Ikea Winner.

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

Anguilla

Me - a HK$50,000 SCMP Ikea Winner.

Many years ago - when I wore a younger man's clothes - I entered a South China Morning Post competition (can't recall what it required me to do).

I "won" a coupon worth Hong Kong $50,000 to be used on Ikea products.

Well, that sort of "win" could have required SWMBO & I to purchase another flat to use up all our winnings [and some more].

We took some items and then circulated around that anyone wanting some discounted IKEA stuff and were willing to collect the IKEA delivery from our home [Ikea demanded that all the HK$50,000 stuff was delivered to one address in a maximum of three deliveries].

That was more years ago than I can now remember. We had enough "buyers" to get rid of everything that we couldn't use and gathered in some loot for it.

Of all the items we got "for free" - only a solitary table lamp remains beside one of our TV's.

(No iniquitous TV license charge in HK !)

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