Don’t ask me why, but I’ve always felt that Hong Kong’s PriceRite is a cheap knockoff on Ikea. I never go into PriceRite nor do I normally pay attention to anything it displays on its shop front. This is why I literally did a double take when I saw these rather cute emoticon chairs on display. Won’t they be rather cute for kids? AND it would teach them early on how to utilise emoticons. (Sidenote: The first person documented to have used the emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman when he posted on a Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board on 19 September 1982.) Unfortunately, I didn’t venture in to ask for their price but only because I was wearing towering heels that day and didn’t feel capable of walking down several flights of stairs after having been on them all day. ;P

Available at PriceRite