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Our old office building had a seldom-used community portal that was very well funded due to a lot of state and federal government tenants. Over the span of the year I won a slow cooker, 12 months of Disney+, and a $200 JB Hi-Fi voucher by virtue of being one of the only people throwing my hat in the ring.

Moved to a new building and we ain't got shit going on, it sucks.
 
My Mum used to enter competitions from magazines. One time she won a safari for two to Africa! It was back before safari tours were really a thing. I think the travel company used my Mum and Dad as guinea pigs.
Yeah my mother in law enters every That’s Life magazine competitions. She won a car once and numerous other little prizes.
 
Yeah my mother in law enters every That’s Life magazine competitions. She won a car once and numerous other little prizes.
There's a doco on disney about a guy in Japan who had to live off entering competitions for prizes for a TV show

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Yeah my mother in law enters every That’s Life magazine competitions. She won a car once and numerous other little prizes.

I was wondering if that was still a thing. The tricky part was 'tell us in less than 15 words why FreshFlush toilet cleaner is awesome'. People are probably using AI these days.
 
I was wondering if that was still a thing. The tricky part was 'tell us in less than 15 words why FreshFlush toilet cleaner is awesome'. People are probably using AI these days.
Yeah that win was probably 5-6 years ago but it’s definitely a thing.
 

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I won some CDs out of TV Hits. 3 Neneh Cherry CDs and a poster. Still got and love them
That reminds me of the absolutely stacked competitions they used to have on Video Hits. I remember when they were announcing the prizes they just kept going and going and going with the inclusions.

CDs, video players, TVs, posters, merch. Sometimes holidays. Exactly the type of competitiond I'd have killed to win as a kid.
 
That song and Black Hole Sun always reminds me of backpacking through Europe.

RHCP's Californication album reminds me of travelling around Europe in 2000, that was album was everywhere there back then.
 
I worked in a bottle shop when I was younger and they had a draw with a tooheys extra dry fridge filled with beer. I'd spent the previous month gaming the system by removing every entry that wasn't mine.

Come 5 minutes before the draw some bloke sees our manager about to draw it, asks if it's too late to enter if he buys some extra dry. Gets his entry in and wins the bloody thing. Only entry in the box that wasn't mine.
 
I worked in a bottle shop when I was younger and they had a draw with a tooheys extra dry fridge filled with beer. I'd spent the previous month gaming the system by removing every entry that wasn't mine.

Come 5 minutes before the draw some bloke sees our manager about to draw it, asks if it's too late to enter if he buys some extra dry. Gets his entry in and wins the bloody thing. Only entry in the box that wasn't mine.
****ing hell, you'd have been ****ing livid.
 

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