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Raffles

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gototu · 02/10/2024 21:49

AiBU to detest a raffle?

They're always won by the person who can afford shitloads of tickets (or worse, by shear luck), by the people who could just walk out and buy the booty anyway? Am always sat there like a chump, having scraped the cash together.

I know. Tell me I'm over-reacting! I'm in my fifty- second year and counting down the things I suddenly have zero tolerance for. And it's for charity. (Hard hat donned.)

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Icanttakethisanymore · 02/10/2024 22:38

Well it’s always ‘by shear luck’ you just have more chance if you’ve bought more tickets. Raffles, like gambling generally, is a good way to get rid of money but possibly a bit of fun. If it’s not even fun then I’d definitely not bother partaking.

Oganesson118 · 02/10/2024 22:35

I like a raffle. Won a Nintendo DS on one once when they were quite a new thing. I was a student at the time so definitely not minted.

ThinWomansBrain · 02/10/2024 22:31

I once went to a raffle that was so disorganised that awarding of the prizes went on for hours. Indispersed with carols where they'd used at least two different carol pamphlets so nearly every time here were at least two mumbly carols going on.

I'd not driven, so was stuck with a group of people I didn't know well who appeared to think it was a brilliant evening.

Holidayhell22 · 02/10/2024 22:21

I can’t get worked up about a raffle.
Actually won a meal for 2 with wine at a very posh hotel once. It was a raffle for my dcs school. I would never have been able to afford the meal otherwise. It was about 20 years ago now and the wine alone was priced at £25 a bottle.

NahNotHavingIt · 02/10/2024 22:13

I'm old and immediately thought of cigarettes 😬

Raffles
Allthehorsesintheworld · 02/10/2024 22:11

Went to some fundraising clothes sale type do at my dc old primary school, years after they left.
DD wanted to try something on, asked me to go with her just as they were drawing the raffle. As she emerged from the changing cubicle but too far for us to go back quickly I heard them shout last call for ticket number ( my ticket) , no? We’ll pass to the next ticket….and my prize of posh champagne went to someone else 😢
Dont think I’d ever won in a raffle before. Or since.

MoneyAndPercentages · 02/10/2024 22:05

soupfiend · 02/10/2024 21:58

Oh god, this is what I thought your thread was about from the title, and they're not even called Raffles

https://www.poundland.co.uk/ruffles-raspberry-coconut-flavour-bars-pack-of-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3vO3BhCqARIsAEWblcAFB4V6Rwve6icS4-bNXofNhJphPTi4Bhte5Jtla1CXhiePJ4olU9AaAhsDEALw_wcB

I'd forgotten these existed! 😋

soupfiend · 02/10/2024 22:03

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Toblerone?

More chocolate

Rass · 02/10/2024 22:02

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Soubriquet · 02/10/2024 22:02

We did a raffle at my dc’s school last summer. Only paid for the one ticket so didn’t expect much. Unexpectedly won but the shampoo burns the head so it kinda didn’t work very well

WhereAreAllTheOddSocks · 02/10/2024 22:01

I don't mind them. I've had many losing ones.
The odd junk item or biscuits. Although 20 years or so ago now I felt pressure to buy tickets for one. I was skint. I used one of my last pounds to buy 2 tickets.
Both won , 1st was a tin of quality street. 2nd was £1000 cheque.
Never been lucky like that again

ItsTheGAGGGGGG · 02/10/2024 22:00

soupfiend · 02/10/2024 21:58

Oh god, this is what I thought your thread was about from the title, and they're not even called Raffles

https://www.poundland.co.uk/ruffles-raspberry-coconut-flavour-bars-pack-of-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3vO3BhCqARIsAEWblcAFB4V6Rwve6icS4-bNXofNhJphPTi4Bhte5Jtla1CXhiePJ4olU9AaAhsDEALw_wcB

I was thinking what chocolate bars are called raffles🤣🤣🤣

Cheerfulcharlie · 02/10/2024 21:58

I thought this was going to be about hotels

Rass · 02/10/2024 21:54

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soupfiend · 02/10/2024 21:52

Oh a raffle

I pictured the character and then wondered if you were talking about the chocolate bar

An actual raffle didnt come into my head

Which is odd because I walked past a pub earlier today with a sign outside advertising a meat raffle. I mean who does a meat raffle these days?

Or even attends one?

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