Have you ever won anything?

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The only thing I've ever won was a train set when I was in my 20's.

DDog won a competition at a local fun dog show earlier in the summer, and is still munching his way through the food he won - it was about £50 worth so very generous. We also got a shiny rosette.

I won a basket of chocolates when I was in secondary school and picked the right square on a treasure map. Unfortunately, the name of the prize winner was announced in assembly and so it was discovered that I was skiving assembly

A cruise (though on condition I wrote a daily report about it)

It was on Holland America's Ryndam and was absolutely AWFUL ... or to put it another way, it was free and it still cost too much

I also bet £3 on the outcome of the general election in 2010 (bet on a hung parliament the January beforehand), and tripled my money! I knew there was a reason I did an A Level in politics...

Nearly forgot the time I won a 3 day trip to Uluru (Ayers Rock) and the surrounding area. I did, however, have to get myself there... it was a good job I was already in Australia, but it necessitated a 33 hour non-stop coach journey from hell to get there. Swings and roundabouts...

A night at the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh. They gave us a corner suite with a turret, whisky and posh chocolates. I was an undergrad at the time; luxury and bliss

I win on the premium bonds nearly every month. Mostly £25 but so far this year 10 lots. I too have £30,000. I also win on the lottery quite a few times. Only small amounts like £2.50 occasionally £25

Concert, festival and theatre tickets from a local radio station. Uggs, Converse, bouquet of flowers and meals out on Facebook pages.

Oh, and a two foot tall Easter Egg that I donated to a local children's ward.

Aged early 20's I won a flight on Concord through a work competition that I didn't even know staff had been enetered.
Haven't really won anything since

2nd prize in a Lego building competition when I was about 7 (the prize was a couple of Lego sets). Then nothing except the odd £10 on the lottery, until I won £15 on the postcode lottery a few weeks ago, and a £25 Marstons voucher this week for filling in a customer feedback thing.

A couple of photography competitions.
A £300 voucher from one of the sponsored threads on here.
The odd fiver or tenner on scratchcards.

Just recently, £240 worth of takeaways from Just Eat! I didn't even know I'd entered a competition!!

Lots of premium bond prizes. At least £25 a month but we are nearing the maximum.
A champagne breakfast for two in a posh local hotel in a raffle.

A hair set from a blog when I was 19, £100 at the bingo when I was 8

I have won
Clothes show tickets
£100 Kwik Save Vouchers
Al Murray tickets
Theatre tickets
Scissor sister tickets
2x mumsnet £300 vouchers
Ollie the owl and books from mumsnet
1x £25 on premium bonds
A puzzle

A Christmas cake at a WI market after guessing the weight correctly.

I recently won a top of the range Miele washer and drier, with a trip to Sydney to get my utility room designed by a top designer (including flights, five star hotel, and limo transfers! I've won lots of other stuff, including a couple of weekends away, a Philips air fryer, and I got to open an Aldi and get a trolley full of groceries before anyone else got in the store. I've also won heaps of tickets to stuff, a hamper full of Easter eggs, a pair of designer high heels (gave them to a friend), a luxury food hamper and my gas bill paid! I really must get into it again. I won most of this during a period of about 18 months when I did a minimum of ten competitions a day. I won something most weeks, even if it was only cinema tix. I've had my best wins doing those 25 words or less things, I usually try to write a funny little poem.

Nothing. Apart from about £20 on the lottery when I worked in a shop and my colleague and I bought a ticket a customer didn't want instead of going through the rigmarole of voiding it. That was a long time ago!

Beauty competition on holiday a few years ago and won the face of something when I was 22. My baby daughter also won the baby beauty competition.

An enormous Easter egg which was solid chocolate and just too big to eat. I donated it to the local homeless shelter.

Theatre tickets when I wrote to the local paper.

A carton of soft drinks when I was a kid.

Not competition, but I wrote to Revlon asking why a certain lipstick colour had been discontinued, and they sent me a huge box of cosmetics .

A few things like gig tickets, a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels, a prototype phone, but the biggest thing I won was the lottery! It wasn't a life-changing amount due to it being split with a fair number of people (small jackpot, multiple winners, was part of a syndicate) but enough to pay off some debts, give some to family and have a pretty easy life for a few years. It's long spent now and I feel like I've used up all my luck!

Last year I won a Vileda mop from Take Break magazine and a silver and gemstone necklace from a local company. So far this year I've had £200 on a scratch card and £100 Argos vouchers from a fancy raffle.
In the last few years I've won a barbecue, a Flymo, a beard care set, a book on human trafficking and £300 on the lottery.

4 boxes of herbal horse feed supplements from horse & pony magazine. I didn't have a horse.
I did volunteer at a local farm which had two aging nags, they loved it & I convinced myself I was adding years to their lives

A years supply of Calvin Klein underwear and a stereo system. Both in the last 5 years ish.

I've won quite a few things & am just about to book my latest prize (meal for 4 in a posh pub in Knightsbridge, need to book table). Prizes have ranged from a bottle of wine to meals out to toys & even some money once (£100). Plus a lot more besides!

BIL, however, is on a whole different level. He enters multiple competitions each day & has won A TV, an iPad, a holiday to South Africa & much more. I kind of copy him on FB & enter whatever he does