My boyfriend won a really expensive camera and then used that camera to become a videographer and left his 9-5 and became the founder of a video marketing business where he hired me and I quit my job to become his copywriter.
As a kid I won a pair of walkie talkies, but one was broken. My mom called the magazine or whoever did the giveaway, and they sent another pair without wanting back the broken one —> 3 walkie talkies for the price of 0
When I was 11, I won a creative writing session and got two lottery tickets. But I didn’t get to scratch em because my parents were very religious and didn’t believe in gambling. So I had to give them away.
Why wife has won door prizes and raffles more times than I can remember but they have never been the big stuff or big money. Last time it was a drawing. Like 7 names pulled the first 6 were ok but really kind of bullshit. My wife wins number 6, it’s a bunch of stuff supporting the local baseball team and some signed memorabilia from its star player, nice but no big deal.
I used to win a lot of stuff from my local radio station as in concert tickets, meet and greets with VIP and also other things. Some of my co workers would swear that I knew a way to cheat to win but I just got lucky I guess…so much so that I got to know the secretary at the radio station front desk on a first name basis and we kept in touch. I’ve met Alice in Chains,Lamb of god and also had some cool seats at my local sports games with some cool swag giveaways.
Had some weird thing back in high school where you could essentially pay to get out of classes for the day and instead just read the whole day and they had like drawings for prizes and stuff every hour and I ended up winning an at the time pretty high-end digital camera
I won a Valentine’s Day basket (with chocolates, a bear, stuff like that) from some BBC kids show back in the late 90s/early 00s. Honestly the only decent thing I’ve ever won and I’m in my 30s.
I won tickets to a concert, airfare and hotel to get there. Two weeks later, I was told i was the grand prize winner which included tickets to the Super Bowl and a meet and greet with my favorite artist.
When sports was first starting to come to Twitter, I won an all expense paid trip to Barbados care of Kevin Weekes of the NHL. He is from Barbados and hosted a multi-week trivia contest in partnership with the Barbados Tourism Board.
Long story short, I answered the right number of questions right first, and got to spend a week in Barbados with airfare, hotel, and excursions all paid for. It was amazing.
I’ve won a few. #1 – in the second grade I won the raffle to take home the class turtle at the end of the school year. #2 – won a collection of books by a particular author all autographed. #3 – won a big box of cat supplies from Jackson Galaxy in a caption contest. #4 – this is the biggest… won a trip for 2 to NYC (airfare, hotel and 2 tickets to a Broadway show.) Going in August.
We won a party tailgate package raffle. We got a full size yeti cooler and enough alcohol to completely fill the back of our suv with the back seats down. My kids we’re in college at that point. Our house was a very popular place to hangout that summer.
I remember being 10 and winning a 3 month gym membership. I was bummed so I traded the prize for the guy who won second place for his ben and jerrys ice cream thing.
I won a ” Lifetime of Free Showers”. Literally, it was 250 free showers, but good enough.
That may sound stupid to most people, but as a trucker, that was amazing as each one at that chain can cost up to $18. So I’ll drive “clean” for most, if not all, of the rest of my career.
Between my wife and I we’ve won concert tickets 1/2 dozen times or so.
The biggest win was to a country music festival a few years ago – saw many different artists. I’m not a huge country fan, but my wife is. However we did see Nazareth perform there as well. That was the highlight for me.
We’ve seen: Def Leppard, Billy Idol, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks, ZZ Top and Lynard Skynard all from tickets we’ve won.
I won a Dyson vacuum worth £650 in a charity raffle at work, right before I moved out of my family home 🥲 that was 2 years ago now and it has been the most useful blessing ever!!
My mom enters giveaways as a hobby. Some of the better prizes : an XBox 1, Playstation 4, a desktop computer, a trip to Branson, $5000. I think the weirdest prize was a case of 48 cans of black olives. We also have so many dumb branded stuffed animals and stress balls and such that they give as smaller prizes.
When I was a kid, there was a Halloween event at my elementary school. There was a massive jar of candy corn (probably like, 4ft tall) and everyone wrote down their guess as to how many pieces were inside. I nailed it and won the jar. I ate my weight in candy corn over the next few months lmao
I was one of 15 people that won the Nickelodeon orange pass weekend sweepstakes where we got to go to Hershey Park and stay the weekend at their hotel go on a tour of the city got to see the all grown up special rv having fun yet like a week or so early. It was a ton of fun.
A years worth of Bread (only 20 of them, not even one a week, so bit misleading)
A cd
Tickets to an unique and intimate concert from an artist I love.
A mug from my favorite radioshow.
50 € gift card for winning first price in an furniture upcycling contest.
And my favorite: a crafting package I won from a drawingcompetition for Some cheese brand when I was 7. It arrived in the mail when I was about 9, completely dented and damaged. The brand by then changed logo so it felt like a Time Capsule.
I won a sweepstakes from a huge arcade back in the day called Gameworks. I didn’t even remember filling it out but it was the best thing to ever happen to 12 year old me — Premier night tickets to the movie Mouse Hunt, overnight hotel stay at Shutters in Santa Monica, CA, limo ride and red carpet at the movie premiere, all day play free game pass for me and a friend, $500, and $500 in merch money at their store. It was awesome. Im 40 and still think about that high.
I won a years worth of Brothers cider in the UK (for those curious, a years supply is considered a bottle per day).
Was delivered on the back of a lorry and dropped off on a pallet. Unloading all those cases of cider and finding homes for it all was a pain in the ass, but a nice problem to have until I found out that their ‘Tutti Frutti’ flavour tastes of ass.
I won tickets to meet the cast of The Mummy, and Brendan Fraser made fun of the way I spell by name by reenacting my mom giving birth to me and screaming the letters. Best day ever.
won a sony walkman and some really nice sony headphones with noise cancellation on twitter several years ago. still have walkman player and sold headphones for a few hundred. couldn’t believe they actually shipped it out!
Years ago I entered a drawing put on by a local radio station and won 2 tickets to see Pearl Jam in St Louis. They took us (multiple winners, not just me and my friend) in a fancy bus from KC to St Louis and back. It was a blast!
I have been a lifelong fan of the amusement park Cedar Point. I had been a season pass holder every year for some twenty years. They held this contest in which they drew a winner every week for several weeks in a row. The winner was then allowed to choose 3 other people to also receive the prize.
So I called everyone I thought I could trust and asked them if I could enter them into the contest. I explained that if their name was chosen that they would get the prize and they would choose me as one of the three then they would get to choose the other two people.
I had gotten 18 people to let me enter their name. Week after week I entered all of these people into the contest. It was only the fifth week or so that my step Father’s name was drawn. So my step Father, my Mother, My Daughter and I won and we all have free season passes for the rest of our lives.
Unbeknownst to me, my mother entered my brothers and I to a drawing to FOX Kids to win Goosebumps books. Grand prize was the winner’s first name would be written in as the protagonist (if I recall correctly). I didn’t win the grand prize. I was one of the second or third prize winning groups. My prize was the entire mainline Goosebumps books that had been released up to that point. This was in the late 90s. I was in the 5th grade.
I didn’t win anything, but my dad won a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando for a week. It was for a Grand Opening of a new hotel. I can’t remember the name. It was fun hearing my dad’s voice on the radio the moment he won.
My mom and I were once listening to the radio when they were giving out Disneyland tickets. She went “watch this” and called the number. I laughed and went “there’s no way they’re picking up,” but lo and behold, they did! Four free tickets to Disney.
That was a fun trip. I happened to be wearing a Doctor Who shirt on that day, and a cast member at Indiana jones pulled a sonic screwdriver out of his jacket pocket. Made my day!
I “won” tickets to see Mitch Hedberg. Our local college radio station (how old am I) was doing a giveaway for tickets, you just had to be the seventh caller.
Well I wasn’t the seventh caller, and I was bummed. I called the station back later and asked if I could just have tickets (they were doing a few giveaways). They said yes. 🤷🏼♀️
I won the Taco Bell Xbox. It makes the Taco Bell “bong!” sound on start up. It was the One X, so I have since upgraded, but my daughter still uses it. 😁
Comments
Yes. A christmas turkey.
A book in my school fair
Yes, 2019 Blackhawks winter classic tickets
I won the chance to be an extra in Rooster Teeth’s “Lazer Team” movie. Due to a glitch 534 other people also won but hey, it was still sick
Real life PlayStation platinum trophy. It arrived destroyed and got 400$ of PlayStation store gift cards instead
I won a ps4 from tacobell
Yes! I won a car! I had to pay the taxes! It was a lot!
I won a poinsettia plant once from a bank when I was 12 years old, that about does it.
Too many to fathom but my favorite wins were a year supply of toilet paper, $1000 gift card, and a shortwave radio.
I won two birds at a bird fair and a picture taken by someone there as well when I was 11 i thought it was sick especially because of the birds!
A wooden dice case, autographed by the ACQ Inc C-Team. Won it years ago and still have it in my collection.
A 50 dollar gift card that they never sent 😂😂😂😂😂
My boyfriend won a really expensive camera and then used that camera to become a videographer and left his 9-5 and became the founder of a video marketing business where he hired me and I quit my job to become his copywriter.
The butterfly effect is crazy cool.
As a kid I won a pair of walkie talkies, but one was broken. My mom called the magazine or whoever did the giveaway, and they sent another pair without wanting back the broken one —> 3 walkie talkies for the price of 0
10 pints of Halo Top lol
Soap… a years worth. 30+ years ago.
I’ve won books twice, chocolate once, and a little kitty figurine.
In contrast, some friends won a trip to France.
Won a trip to Grand Bahama from a grocery store promotion
I won an expensive watch at a department store opening’s raffle.
When I was 11, I won a creative writing session and got two lottery tickets. But I didn’t get to scratch em because my parents were very religious and didn’t believe in gambling. So I had to give them away.
Why wife has won door prizes and raffles more times than I can remember but they have never been the big stuff or big money. Last time it was a drawing. Like 7 names pulled the first 6 were ok but really kind of bullshit. My wife wins number 6, it’s a bunch of stuff supporting the local baseball team and some signed memorabilia from its star player, nice but no big deal.
Number 7 is $7500. in cash.
I used to win a lot of stuff from my local radio station as in concert tickets, meet and greets with VIP and also other things. Some of my co workers would swear that I knew a way to cheat to win but I just got lucky I guess…so much so that I got to know the secretary at the radio station front desk on a first name basis and we kept in touch. I’ve met Alice in Chains,Lamb of god and also had some cool seats at my local sports games with some cool swag giveaways.
Trip to Maui from a daytime talk show
Had some weird thing back in high school where you could essentially pay to get out of classes for the day and instead just read the whole day and they had like drawings for prizes and stuff every hour and I ended up winning an at the time pretty high-end digital camera
nipple clamps 💀
I won a Valentine’s Day basket (with chocolates, a bear, stuff like that) from some BBC kids show back in the late 90s/early 00s. Honestly the only decent thing I’ve ever won and I’m in my 30s.
I won a PS5 in a raffle and a free KBBQ dinner in a random giveaway.
a copy of the soundtrack to “CADDYSHACK”
I’m all right, don’t nobody worry bout me…
I won a free year of free healthcare through a virtual healthcare app. It was free for a reason.
An advance (galley) copy of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar Volume One
I won tickets to a concert, airfare and hotel to get there. Two weeks later, I was told i was the grand prize winner which included tickets to the Super Bowl and a meet and greet with my favorite artist.
home computer setup back in the 2000s
I won a fucking 14 pound turkey from drag bingo. I’m vegetarian.
Won a year of free pizza from Dominies at a Stag n Doe. Was actually 24 free large pizza coupons. Used every single one.
When sports was first starting to come to Twitter, I won an all expense paid trip to Barbados care of Kevin Weekes of the NHL. He is from Barbados and hosted a multi-week trivia contest in partnership with the Barbados Tourism Board.
Long story short, I answered the right number of questions right first, and got to spend a week in Barbados with airfare, hotel, and excursions all paid for. It was amazing.
I won the first generation of iPod shuffle. It could only hold 120 songs.
I’ve won a few. #1 – in the second grade I won the raffle to take home the class turtle at the end of the school year. #2 – won a collection of books by a particular author all autographed. #3 – won a big box of cat supplies from Jackson Galaxy in a caption contest. #4 – this is the biggest… won a trip for 2 to NYC (airfare, hotel and 2 tickets to a Broadway show.) Going in August.
I won an atv in a raffle. My I gave my boss $20 to buy a ticket for me, and I won. She wasn’t to mad.
I won a full set of kitchen appliances.
We won a party tailgate package raffle. We got a full size yeti cooler and enough alcohol to completely fill the back of our suv with the back seats down. My kids we’re in college at that point. Our house was a very popular place to hangout that summer.
The Colorado Rockies sent me a t-shirt because I answered a question on twitter. I’m in Canada so thought that was pretty cool.
I won a Snap-On toolbox in a raffle. It retails for $8600, and I spent $50 on tickets
I remember being 10 and winning a 3 month gym membership. I was bummed so I traded the prize for the guy who won second place for his ben and jerrys ice cream thing.
I won a ” Lifetime of Free Showers”. Literally, it was 250 free showers, but good enough.
That may sound stupid to most people, but as a trucker, that was amazing as each one at that chain can cost up to $18. So I’ll drive “clean” for most, if not all, of the rest of my career.
Local jewelry store. Won a 16” stand of pearls right before my wedding.
I was the 9th caller to a radio station and won 2 tickets to see George Carlin back in 2001ish. It was a fantastic show!
Between my wife and I we’ve won concert tickets 1/2 dozen times or so.
The biggest win was to a country music festival a few years ago – saw many different artists. I’m not a huge country fan, but my wife is. However we did see Nazareth perform there as well. That was the highlight for me.
We’ve seen: Def Leppard, Billy Idol, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks, ZZ Top and Lynard Skynard all from tickets we’ve won.
A voice acting coaching session with a legend of a voice actor.
My high school sent out an alumni survey. I gave them a pretty scathing review. I won a $50 GrubHub gift card.
I won a Dyson vacuum worth £650 in a charity raffle at work, right before I moved out of my family home 🥲 that was 2 years ago now and it has been the most useful blessing ever!!
I won a Star Wars backpack from Lay’s chips when Episode 1 came out.
My mom enters giveaways as a hobby. Some of the better prizes : an XBox 1, Playstation 4, a desktop computer, a trip to Branson, $5000. I think the weirdest prize was a case of 48 cans of black olives. We also have so many dumb branded stuffed animals and stress balls and such that they give as smaller prizes.
I won the Fenway 50/50. Think it was 10k.
When I was a kid, there was a Halloween event at my elementary school. There was a massive jar of candy corn (probably like, 4ft tall) and everyone wrote down their guess as to how many pieces were inside. I nailed it and won the jar. I ate my weight in candy corn over the next few months lmao
I won a meet and greet and tickets to see Rammstein in 2012 from Revolver Magazine. Only thing I’ve ever won.
I won ten bucks from publishers clearing house and 100 from a texas lotto second chance drawing
I suppose nobody will say the monopoly from McDonald’s 😂
I was one of 15 people that won the Nickelodeon orange pass weekend sweepstakes where we got to go to Hershey Park and stay the weekend at their hotel go on a tour of the city got to see the all grown up special rv having fun yet like a week or so early. It was a ton of fun.
I won a free $500 tattoo from an IG raffle! It got featured in Tattoo Magazine.
2 plane tickets to anywhere in the continental United States.
I won a hardcover copy of the World of Warcraft comic autographed by Jim Lee. That was pretty cool.
A ton of beanie babies in the 90s. I was really planning to retire at 38 on those babies.
A years worth of Bread (only 20 of them, not even one a week, so bit misleading)
A cd
Tickets to an unique and intimate concert from an artist I love.
A mug from my favorite radioshow.
50 € gift card for winning first price in an furniture upcycling contest.
And my favorite: a crafting package I won from a drawingcompetition for Some cheese brand when I was 7. It arrived in the mail when I was about 9, completely dented and damaged. The brand by then changed logo so it felt like a Time Capsule.
won a dvd copy of shazam one time
I won a sweepstakes from a huge arcade back in the day called Gameworks. I didn’t even remember filling it out but it was the best thing to ever happen to 12 year old me — Premier night tickets to the movie Mouse Hunt, overnight hotel stay at Shutters in Santa Monica, CA, limo ride and red carpet at the movie premiere, all day play free game pass for me and a friend, $500, and $500 in merch money at their store. It was awesome. Im 40 and still think about that high.
I won a years worth of Brothers cider in the UK (for those curious, a years supply is considered a bottle per day).
Was delivered on the back of a lorry and dropped off on a pallet. Unloading all those cases of cider and finding homes for it all was a pain in the ass, but a nice problem to have until I found out that their ‘Tutti Frutti’ flavour tastes of ass.
I won a videographer package at a bridal show! It was a $1500 value and we were super excited!
Front row tickets to see Hamilton.
I won tickets to meet the cast of The Mummy, and Brendan Fraser made fun of the way I spell by name by reenacting my mom giving birth to me and screaming the letters. Best day ever.
won a sony walkman and some really nice sony headphones with noise cancellation on twitter several years ago. still have walkman player and sold headphones for a few hundred. couldn’t believe they actually shipped it out!
I won floor tickets to The Eras Tour through Capital One. It was pretty amazing. I entered on Twitter.
I won a Frozen pencil case. I gave it to my niece who was obsessed with Frozen at the time.
I didn’t have a job for a while after college living on winning stuff 🤣 won a bunch of PC parts, games, art work and a 3DS to name a few!
I got black listed from a local radio station for one year because I kept winning.
I won:
Tickets to Led Zeppelin cover band for myself and a friend
Tickets to a local semi pro hockey team where they put you and three friends on the bench between the two teams with buckets of beer.
Tickets to walk a brand new TCP golf course during a tournament with a few pros. Along with a pass to golf the same course for my dad and myself.
That was like 4 months and after that I wasn’t allowed to win.
Years ago I entered a drawing put on by a local radio station and won 2 tickets to see Pearl Jam in St Louis. They took us (multiple winners, not just me and my friend) in a fancy bus from KC to St Louis and back. It was a blast!
I have been a lifelong fan of the amusement park Cedar Point. I had been a season pass holder every year for some twenty years. They held this contest in which they drew a winner every week for several weeks in a row. The winner was then allowed to choose 3 other people to also receive the prize.
So I called everyone I thought I could trust and asked them if I could enter them into the contest. I explained that if their name was chosen that they would get the prize and they would choose me as one of the three then they would get to choose the other two people.
I had gotten 18 people to let me enter their name. Week after week I entered all of these people into the contest. It was only the fifth week or so that my step Father’s name was drawn. So my step Father, my Mother, My Daughter and I won and we all have free season passes for the rest of our lives.
Unbeknownst to me, my mother entered my brothers and I to a drawing to FOX Kids to win Goosebumps books. Grand prize was the winner’s first name would be written in as the protagonist (if I recall correctly). I didn’t win the grand prize. I was one of the second or third prize winning groups. My prize was the entire mainline Goosebumps books that had been released up to that point. This was in the late 90s. I was in the 5th grade.
my godfather does this as his main job…wins tickets to certain events and then sells them for major profit
the biggest score was probably NBA AllStar tickets sold them for 6500 and probably could have gotten more
In the 80’s a bicycle from Cap’n Crunch cereal.
Not me, but my grandfather won the entire showcase on the Price is Right lol. They still have the car he won and everything else
Not to brag, but I found the golden egg at my church’s Easter egg hunt as a child and won an inflatable bunny.
Concert tickets to see Prince. Concert tickets to the Houston Rodeo.
I won an realistic Alf costume from a drugstore give away. I was in college and short so I went trick or treating with friends.
I didn’t win anything, but my dad won a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando for a week. It was for a Grand Opening of a new hotel. I can’t remember the name. It was fun hearing my dad’s voice on the radio the moment he won.
I won an (hermione Granger) action figurine, must have lost all my luck after that.
My mom and I were once listening to the radio when they were giving out Disneyland tickets. She went “watch this” and called the number. I laughed and went “there’s no way they’re picking up,” but lo and behold, they did! Four free tickets to Disney.
That was a fun trip. I happened to be wearing a Doctor Who shirt on that day, and a cast member at Indiana jones pulled a sonic screwdriver out of his jacket pocket. Made my day!
I won a laptop from a school fundraiser if that counts
I won a rowing machine from sears in 1989
A Traeger grill and I use it more than most things I’ve paid for..
I “won” tickets to see Mitch Hedberg. Our local college radio station (how old am I) was doing a giveaway for tickets, you just had to be the seventh caller.
Well I wasn’t the seventh caller, and I was bummed. I called the station back later and asked if I could just have tickets (they were doing a few giveaways). They said yes. 🤷🏼♀️
Mitch was fantastic.
I won the Taco Bell Xbox. It makes the Taco Bell “bong!” sound on start up. It was the One X, so I have since upgraded, but my daughter still uses it. 😁
[removed]