What's the luckiest thing that's ever happened to you?

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I booked something via TopCashback and it was cancelled but they paid the bonus regardless. £40. I reckon that's the luckiest I've been.

You?

A few years back I won the Grand National.

Meeting DH was a fairly incredible sequence of coincidences and happenstance.

Otherwise I once put 80p in a vending machine and it emptied the entire contents!

Mine is a bad luck turned good story.

In 2019, our landlord gave us notice to move out. They were selling the house. We hated the house, the neighbours and the area, but were kind of stuck there due to a number of factors. Long story short, its been the best thing that could have happened to us, we got a lovely new house in a different area. There is absolutely no way we could have survived lockdown in the old house. A lot of positive things have happened since then that wouldn't have been possible if we hadn't moved. I'm so grateful everyday that it happened.

I'm the luckiest woman on the planet tbh.

There was one time when I bought £5 of raffle tickets because I was a bit bored supporting dh at a 10k run whe ds was tiny. I won THREE prizes, returned two because I'm not a monster but made sure I kept the slap up meal for two at a nice restaurant.

Probably the fact that I was born in the UK. And also to wealthy parents.

Even though I was under 50 I was invited for a mammogram as part of a trial pilot scheme. The first time I went I couldn't have it done because there was an issue with the machine. I very nearly didn't bother going back but did. I discovered I had very early breast cancer, the growth was only 1.7mm big! I had successful treatment and my oncologist doesn't think it will come back because it was caught and treated so very early.

If I hadn't been invited for that mammogram, it could have been a very, very different story for me because I never bothered checking for Lumos or anything!

I invested in a wealth management plan when I lived abroad. I can’t remember exactly how much I paid in due to currency exchange but about £5k. The plan closed 2 years later and the return was something like 11% with a 30% “sorry for closing”. Due to currency exchange I was sent over £17k when I was supposed to be sent 17k in a different currency, exchange was about 2:£1. I lost my job so it paid for that until I found a new one, a new kitchen and bathroom, and (eventually) my honeymoon.

They said I could keep it by the way.

I very rarely use Facebook- only to check in the village pages and freecycle but for some reason I looked at a local selling page literally as a local out a huge Welsh dresser and beautiful solid 6 seater table and chairs on for sale.

For £100. I responded yes straight away and she honoured my response. She told me loads of people offered her lots more money straight after.

When I picked it up (her parents were downsizing) she was convinced I was a reseller who would slap a bit of farrow and ball on it and flog it for £1000.

I could have, but I genuinely wanted it and it now lives happily in my house. Every time to use/look at it I do a little smile of gratitude.

So a mixture of luck and a lovely honest lady who sold it to me.

And I sent some photos of it to her in situ with all my crap lovingly sourced nik naks on it to prove I'm honest and extremely grateful.

She was

I complained about a holiday and it was a very valid and detailed complaint directed at the CEO, they refunded me the entire cost of the holiday plus a bit on top for the bad experience... we are talking over £2k

Haha, another vending machine one, it emptied the entire row of chocolate bars instead of just one. That was a good day

I consider myself a very lucky, unlucky person.
In the last 5 years I've survived severe pre eclampsia, life threatening aneamia, stage 1 liver failure and 2 pp hemorrhages.
I survived all of that with no long term damage, a few scars (from long line cannula and 2 c sections) and no idea how my liver recovered over night.
In the same time frame I've had 2 premature babies, 3 miscarriages, 9 weeks in the nicu with them, nearly lost both children at exactly the same age 4 years apart and 1 needed life saving surgery at 3 weeks old. Again they are perfectly happy and healthy now.
My mental health is wrecked but I feel incredibly lucky to be here with my boys and husband.

I got ran into by a car when I was a teenager, crossed the road in front of a bus , full stomach into bonnet interface and I was fine, not even a bruise and I was so mortified I ran off...not sure if that qualifies as a hit and run

I was in a car crash whilst a passenger in a taxi. We had dropped my friend off so there was just me and the taxi driver. When we dropped my friend off I moved over to sit on the passenger side so I could get out onto the pavement instead of the road at my house. Before we got there the taxi was crashed into at a junction and pushed into a ditch/wooden fence. A fence post came through the window where I had been sitting moments before. If I had being sitting there still I would have been very seriously injured or dead.

Got the all-clear health wise after a stressful year.
I recently won a £200 Tesco gift card after taking part in a short survey.

I don’t know about lucky but here goes

I was in bed on my phone just happened to be on WhatsApp around 1:30am, Mrs was in living in Canada (7hr Time m difference) at the time. If I hadn’t replied to her message at that time I don’t think we would have got married. Me and my family were in U.K. , she was in Canada, her family was India.

Crazy thing we had discussed a date to get married end of March 2020 in another country (India), in end we decided get married early March 2020 juts before world went into Lockdown.

Was supposed to go to Maldives for honeymoon but got cancelled day before… still waiting do that honeymoon holiday :(. Hopefully March 2022

It’s cheesy but true that every time I look at my kids I feel lucky.

We went to a local community jumble sale yesterday which proved to be mainly local information stalls and games with only one actual jumble stall. To be supportive I suggested that my husband have a go on the bottle tombola - 4 tickets for £1 to win bottles of wine, water, pop etc. He won a bottle of champagne!

Then today I won a fiver on a scratch card, and last week I joined Olio to try and get some fresh veg for soups. The nearest listing was a lady two streets away who gave me a whole box of homegrown courgettes! I adore courgette soup so felt really lucky then.

A friend’s girlfriend impulsively bought a rabbit but decided she didn’t want it after a few weeks.

Was only mentioned in passing but I agreed to take her on.

Had seven years with her. We had an incredible bond. She lived in the house with five cats so assumed she was one. She was perfect.

I was so lucky to hear that particular conversation.

Meeting dh- it was by sheer chance so I am very thankful of that and count myself lucky every day. Sorry that was soppy!

I checked the kennel club website after having spent over a year in search of a particular breed of dog. They are prone to a liver disease that can and should be screened for.
Up came a litter in Rotherham which is about 150 miles away.
He is the best boy

Just after I bought my first home I won a competition for £2k worth of furniture. Around the same time I won a TV and several prizes in my work weekly bonus ball draw. And a few smaller competition prizes. I felt like the luckiest person alive! Then it all stopped and I haven't won thing in ages 😕

@sunkisses100

Being born in the late 70s. If I had been born earlier I wouldn't have received the life saving open heart surgery I had as a child & so would not have survived past early teens. I am mid forties & very often reflect in how lucky I have been, along with many others.

That’s really lovely that you think of it like that. My dd was born with tetralogy of fallots in 2004 and I’ve always struggled with how unfair it was that she was born so unwell. After reading your post it’s reminded me how bloody lucky we are that she was born when she was, with all the medical advantages we have. So many families wouldn’t have been so fortunate, thank you for helping me revaluate my thinking surrounding it all as it’s something I’ve struggled with.

I think I was very lucky to meet my dh, we met online and set up a date pretty quickly but on the day I wasn’t feeling well and I wasn’t going to go then something in my head just told me I should go and the rest as they say is history! I’d come out of an abusive relationship and was pretty broken but dh has rebuilt me in so many ways, I consider myself incredibly lucky to have him.

Meeting DP.

We met online, he was my first online date to "see if I was ready to date properly" so I wasn't expecting much and hadn't really invested at all. His photos were average, but we had enough in common to be able chat over a coffee. I walked in, saw him and felt a literal punch to my gut. That date lasted 16 hours Funny thing is I only started talking to him because he extended our match on bumble after it almost timing out because I was in quite a few other conversations, so couldn't be bothered starting another! But i'm so glad I did!

We discovered our new home had asbestos. The survey hadn't picked it up although had commented that the heating pipes were well lagged.
We saw a solicitor who asked for £2k to to start the case.
We won our case against the surveyor.
Two years later the solicitors contacted us to say the £2k had never been entered into the books and a full audit had just been completed.
Apparently it was cheaper to return the £2k to us than alter the accounts after the audit.
So we got a chq for £2k and paid off our car loan.