Weirdest Things you have won in raffles/tombolas

[Megz25]

Just been to a tombola today I won 6 bags of sweets and a frisby.

I love a tombola, we always win something. Usually an Easter egg, at any time of year.

I think my weirdest win was a fry up. Uncooked... So literally a box with sausages, eggs, bacon, tin of beans etc.

Not on a raffle or tombola, but I once won a bar of coal tar soap and a clothes brush in a fancy dress competition!

In my grandads nursing home, where I also work, my auntie donated a bottle of Croft sherry. My uncle (her brother) won it. He donated it back at the next raffle and my mum won it. She donated it back and guess who now has it on the top of the kitchen cupboard waiting for the next raffle? Yeah, me

A portable mini fridge

A tin of artichokes!

@notso my DM won a 4 foot knitted clown from a Christmas fete and kept it "for the kiddies" for years. It was horrifying.

Same fete she also won a beige, plastic, collapsible hostess trolley which proved very useful in carting the nightmare to the car with all her other winnings.

A pineapple in a raffle

A bottle of "pop" which turned out to be vinegar and only realised when I was gulping it down :(

I love this thread.

I was seriously thinking of buying one of those fairly dire 'gift sets' with mini soaps, a hand-cream and a scented candle and setting it free into tombola-world with its own Facebook page link, so its winners could report on its travels before re-donating it for the next lucky recipient!

We should do this, and maybe become Insta-famous

My kids won a voucher for £25 worth of fruit once-they where fuming-neither liked fruit!
My son once spent £2 of his own money and won a chubba chub lolly-he was over the moon til his sister pointed out they are about 20p to buy from the shop
I won a box of teabags (I think they where Yorkshire tea) I was buzzing but the lady looked at my 6 kids snatched the box out of my hands and handed me a bottle of red wine-I don’t drink wine and was too polite to say anything so I have it to my mates fella

I helped out at tombolas and at the end was given two jars of sandwich paste. One was Roast beef and horsradish and the other was Chinese chicken sandwich paste.
DH said the roast beef flavour was ok. We could not pluck up the courage to try the Chinese chicken which spent a couple of months on the shelf till I through it away.

@IncognitaIgnorama Ah, thanks, my mum said they were for Jake The Peg 😄

Many (many) years ago my best friend's brother won a pair of corsets (as in stays not sexy corsets) and three rolls of wallpaper.

He was about six or seven.

I once won a pair of teazels dresses up to look like hedgehogs. This was circa 1993, but not a day goes by when I don't think about them.

To be fair, though, you do work full-time for the National Trust

@AlecOrAlonzo what did he think the stays were? 😄

Long before I came on the scene, my MIL won an enormous catering-sized tin of baked beans. I think they contain about the equivalent of 8 normal-sized tins. However, 8 tins of beans, whilst not the most razzamatazz prize ever, would be a very useful addition to the store cupboard.

Problem with having the lot in one huge tin, though, is that, once opening the tin, you have to eat them all in about 3 days. Quite difficult for a family of 4, 2 of whom young children.

I hear that the fridge was jam-packed with every tub in the house full of the things and that meals were not particularly varied for some time. I'm guessing that many windows stayed firmly open too....