kwickimom Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I enter all the blog giveaways and I won $100 giftcard to Walmart from The Peaceful Mom. That's it. I never win anything. I once knew a girl who won a car from one of those mall contests. Anyone else??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won tickets from the radio twice, once to 6Flags and once to a thing at the zoo. I enter HGTV Dream Home every year and I am convinced I will win one day! I'll let ya'll know when I do! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I once won perfume in a magazine competition. I haven't entered anything for years now, which would explain why I'm not winning :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won an Elton John greatest hits record. I was seriously excited! I won tickets to Sesame Street Live in a radio contest (my daughter hated it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripley Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I win lots of stuff! Friends and family get really annoyed because it seems I'm always winning - no matter how stupid or little a win, I win it. Last week I won a blu-ray player and DS from one of those grabber games at the arcade. Four tries, two wins. Earlier this month I won a thousand dollars at the casino; I only ever bring $50, whether it takes me five minutes or five hours to go through. My mom always gifts us scratch-off tickets for our birthday, however old we're turning is how many tickets she buys us. My brother and I have birthdays the same week - Mom has done this since we've each turned 21, and in the 15 years since we've both gotten tickets he has never one. I always win at least $2. :) I've won the last three scout raffles, and my friend (scoutmaster) used that to beef up sales - he told the other parents they had to dilute the pool to keep me from winning again. LOL We'll find out this weekend if that strategy worked. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Many years ago I won a VCR in a raffle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilma Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won circus tickets one time! And some sewing goodies from a blog another time. I love being a winner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachermom2834 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won an Atari at a school festival raffle when I was maybe 12? Whenever it was that they came out and were the big thing :) Was very funny because my father was adamantly against video games and swore we would NEVER have such a thing in our home. He let us keep it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter's Moon Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I have won a raffle in 8th grade for a t-shirt, a raffle for a notebook and college t-shirt when visiting a college, a weird lobster mirror at a church raffle, and a $25 ihop gift card at church. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 yup. a week ago I won a copy of despicable me 2 at a draw when we went to watch the movie (free family movie night). I have won money, books and food prizes off the radio when we lived in the city. When ds15 was 5 I won him a shot at mutton busting in the rodeo (radio prize again, I had to bah like a sheep while he rode my back-on the air). I have won a complete book set of HWOT materials (preK to cando cursive) when I attended the training and a gift basket at a home school conference. gift certificates and gift baskets at various conventions/conferences/presentations I go to. I don't win huge prizes and certainly not all the time, but I have won an aweful lot. THe year I won the cash on the radio it was one of those contests where they announce your name from their "friends" list and you have 15 minutes to call in and choose one of the "boxes" and you get the prize in that box. A friend heard my name and called me to tell me. I called in and ended up winning $750, At the time I was in major risk to being evicted for not paying rent(here if you miss 1 payment you get your notice, there is no dragging it on). That money covered the rent, the power bill etc. The timing couldn't have been better. Twice I also got chosen for special panels, so not really winning a prize and yet also still by random chance, one was a focus group for new tv shows and I got $50 to attend that for a couple hours, the other was for a new way of farming to protect wildlife and wild habitats and I got $200 for that one. I consider them pretty close to being contests since not everyone gets chosen to participate. I know a single homeschooling mom that entered a mall draw during back to school time and they won a trip for 4 to disneyland, there is no way they could have gone without having won, they had a great time. Now if only I could win the lottery :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won $1 playing Mega millions this week :laugh: . Not as exciting as the 600 million, but at least I didn't lose by playing! I won tickets to go see Weezer a few years ago. I was super stoked about that. It was an early morning text to win thing on the radio, and I was just getting home from running something to church. It was Sunday morning, the day after Halloween. So I spent 5 min or so texting, and then gave up. 5 min later, the dj at the radio station texts me back with, "Don't give up, you were the only one trying!" So I sat there and texted the 100 times or whatever I was supposed to do, and I won the tickets. Dh and I made an anniversary trip out of it and had so much fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won't say I've never won anything, but not much. However my family is a lot more lucky. The kids are always winning things from our library - they won tickets to Cirque du Soleil, a Kindle Fire, and have twice won a monetary prize in an essay contest. The library is crazy good to my kids. And dh won $32K on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire back when it was really popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I've won a few small giftcards before $5 to $25 range, a bamboo cutting board, and some silly tool for cleaning your face doing random drawings. As a senior in high school I won $1000 at graduation for an essay contest I was chosen to participate in. There were only 2 other people I was competing against and they were too lazy to write anything good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwickimom Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won't say I've never won anything, but not much. However my family is a lot more lucky. The kids are always winning things from our library - they won tickets to Cirque du Soleil, a Kindle Fire, and have twice won a monetary prize in an essay contest. The library is crazy good to my kids. And dh won $32K on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire back when it was really popular. That is so cool to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire!! I should do another thread to see who has been on TV! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 As a kid I won a rickshaw at my dad's fishing club annual bash - he made me trade it in for a fishing pole. About a decade ago I won the last two seats under the shelter for a Beethoven concert at Ravinia from the Chicago Tribune. A couple years ago I won a very expensive espresso maker and a coffee grinder from Pioneer Woman - back when she had only a couple thousand folks reading her blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 As a kid, I won a bike in a drawing after Garbage Clean Up Day. Twice. As an adult, I have won the 50-50 split the pot things multiple times at baseball games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I've won various blog give-aways and local drawings. I know someone who won a trip to Peru from an instant winner card in a coffee container. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Some of the stuff you guys have won cracks me up! A rickshaw?? Last month I won front row tickets and a meet and greet with Brad Paisley. That was a fun night!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a Cabbage Patch doll on Christmas Eve when I was eight. It was seriously the best thing ever! I had wanted one for so long but my parents couldn't afford it. They did give me a dollar to enter the store raffle, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Ironically, the only blog giveaway I ever won had as the prize a copy of the third edition of The Well Trained Mind... My father-in-law wins everything though. His most recent win was a new Kindle Fire. He has won baskets of party supplies, Halloween decorations, and a bible study/devotional package in the last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OK Family Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a poster calendar from a drawing in 6th grade. I think though the boy drawing the names saw my name and pulled it. Otherwise I don't ever win. I always enter giveaways at pioneer woman and still hoping I'll win a pair of pretty boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 And dh won $32K on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire back when it was really popular. (emphasis mine) I like the way you phrased that. I don't think I have won anything. My mom just won a CD of a movie soundtrack when she attended the premiere. Good thing she liked the music more than the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Not often. Of course I don't often enter contests or raffles because I figure I never win anyway so maybe it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. :D I did once win one of those ceramic Christmas trees at a senior's function that I went to with my Grandma when I was around 10 or so. You know - the kind where you put a light bulb in the base and then you put little coloured plastic "light bulbs" or decorations in all the little holes in the tree so the light shines through them? Yeah - one of those. :D I also won a set of 3 large, standing-type decorative finials in pink, yellow, and mint green from Country Sampler magazine once. Except they're kind of ugly and don't really go with the colours in my house. Plus I had to pay shipping costs to Canada so I think I ended up paying about 50 bucks for them in shipping. They're in my basement in a box. On the plus side, they're quite heavy and could come in handy someday as a weapon to clock someone with. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a Blu-ray from a blog once...the best part was, it was something I really wanted, and would have bought anyway! And, a few months ago at "Social Media Night" at Busch Stadium, I won an autographed picture of a Cardinal. That was awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a free nail trim for my dog. I've never had a dog, but it was still nice to hear my number called at the raffle. And I just remembered the free hamburger coupon I got because our minor league hockey team scored more than 5 goals in a single game. I never did redeem it, but it had a place of honor on my corkboard until I noticed that it had expired six months earlier and I recycled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a 50/50 at a dance once. I think it was a little over $100. At the same dance we also won 3 items from the silent auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 You all know my daughter won a flat-screen television in a raffle at the plasma place. Back in 1994 I won a trip to the super bowl in Atlanta, Georgia. I didn't actually go to the game because they gave our more trips than they had tickets for. I was compensated for the price of the tickets. It was just Dallas vs Buffalo anyway and everyone knew Dallas was going to win (they did). We watched the game from a sports bar, but hey, I got to fly to Atlanta and we went sight seeing while we were there. It was very enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Farrar Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 (emphasis mine) I like the way you phrased that. I don't think I have won anything. My mom just won a CD of a movie soundtrack when she attended the premiere. Good thing she liked the music more than the movie. :tongue_smilie: Now I feel silly. It was interesting because the night before he was on, random people called our home to wish him luck because they used to announce who would be the next night's contestants. And I got to meet Regis, who was clearly a bit disgusted when dh was like, "I just won my whole year's salary!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I once won a case of whiskey, but I couldn't afford the duties and so never had it shipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoxcell Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I would say that I never win anything, but I'm sure I have won something small before. It is extremely rare though and I can't recall if I did. My dh won a cheesy DVD player once but he doesn't win things often either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scholarly Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a cake in a cakewalk in high school. I think I'm due to win something else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAutumnOak Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won tickets to Six Flags when a radio station saw their magnet on my car...I also won $20 in a Bingo game once...Nothing major... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 :tongue_smilie: Now I feel silly. Aw, don't. I thought it was funny. I once saw a girl who'd gone to the same college as I did, on Supermarket Sweep! I loved that show. I have no idea why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Aw, don't. I thought it was funny. I once saw a girl who'd gone to the same college as I did, on Supermarket Sweep! I loved that show. I have no idea why. Because Supermarket Sweep was fabulous, that's why! Those gigantic wedges of cheese! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a book a few years ago. That's all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRG Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I've had my product reviews picked several times at Rainbow Resource($25 gift certificate) and I won a $75 random drawing there also. I think that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwickimom Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Some of the stuff you guys have won cracks me up! A rickshaw?? Last month I won front row tickets and a meet and greet with Brad Paisley. That was a fun night!!!! ooo so jealous!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeofgrace Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Many years ago when the PS3 first came out, our bank had a contest for children under 18 who had an account at the bank. My son was about 7, second grade, at the time, so I entered him in the contest. He WON!! We still have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrookValley. Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a 10-day Earthwatch trip to Costa Rica, all expenses paid, from Starbucks. Between my husband and I, we've won concert tickets, 50-50s, random raffles, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won the opportunity to throw out the first pitch at a Cardinals game in 1998. In fact, I confiscated my first pitch baseball from the boys yesterday before they threw it through a window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 We won a 32 gig iPad in a raffle back when they were first released and in short supply. Actually I'm using that iPad to post. The weird thing is we didn't even know we were in the raffle. It was part of a huge fundraiser at our local little league and there were thousands upon thousands of tickets sold. What we did not know is that everyone got 1 (one) ticket with the baseball registration. It was definitely a Charlie Bucket (Willy Wonka) moment for my son (and I) when we found out we won. We could not believe it. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a set of encyclopedias when I was 13. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairie~Phlox Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Not very often, but I have in the past. Recently Dh won an ammolite pendant on the cruise we were on. It was valued at $199. I think that's the largest amount of anything that we've won. I enter contests all the time, especially this time of year, but am never the winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evergreen State Sue Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 :tongue_smilie: Now I feel silly. It was interesting because the night before he was on, random people called our home to wish him luck because they used to announce who would be the next night's contestants. And I got to meet Regis, who was clearly a bit disgusted when dh was like, "I just won my whole year's salary!" Why would Regis be disgusted? It wasn't like Regis personally had to pay your dh. Maybe that's why he left (or asked to leave) the hosting job and Merideth V. took over. She seemed very nice to the contestants. Me? I don't remember winning anything. My dd and I like to watch Jeopardy and I'm lucky to even get 10 answers correct! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Why would Regis be disgusted? It wasn't like Regis personally had to pay your dh. Maybe that's why he left (or asked to leave) the hosting job and Merideth V. took over. She seemed very nice to the contestants. He was nice, but he gave dh a look that was clearly like, that is so pathetic. Sort of a disconnected rich person thing. He left when the show wasn't as big anymore. More being superior. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I won a Mickey Mouse money box in a bicycle decorating competition when I was about 8, down at the local fire station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 We won a 36" holiday snoopy from hallmark. The kids loved it. My son won a coloring contest and received a bunch of crayola stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I've won a lot of things over the years. When I was a kid I won 3-4 coloring contests. One of the prizes was a brand new banana seat bike. As an adult I've won a homeschool nature curriculum (that I never used, lol), a gas card, gift basket, Amazon gift card, and...can't think of anything else right now, but there have been other things. I love winning things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 When the new Star Wars movies came out (Phantom Menace, etc) my niece won a life-sized Yoda from Blockbuster. I mention it because she had no where to put it and we bought it from her. :) He is awesome and in our basement right now. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Life-Size-Star-Wars-Yoda-with-SUPER-RARE-Giveaway-Stand-Full-Size-Prop-/261320163783 It's like this one but without the stand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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