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?

I won a vibrator in a competition once

@shurl, that's how I felt when I met DH! A physical sensation, it was so odd!

When I met my now partner. A random sequence of events that have made my life perfect

Got to go to University for free while also earning my full time wage from work.

Circa £170k

I used to do competitions and won loads of stuff. My best prize was a top of the range Miele washing machine and tumble drier and a trip to Sydney to stay in a five star hotel, that was pretty lucky! But my luckiest thing was meeting my husband, our 25th wedding anniversary is in December.

My dad changing our Christmas Day plans at the very last minute so we would not travel overnight to our Khao Lak beach hotel for Boxing Day, 2004. Instead we headed inland to Chang Mai, where we only felt the earthquake. We later discovered nearly all the hotel staff (and many guests, I assume) perished.

Honestly? My education. So so lucky and it's brought opportunities, people and an lovely lifestyle.

I was born in a first world country in the latter part of the 20th century - I reckon that makes me luckier than 99% of all humans who have ever lived.

Dh asked me to move in with him the same day I was suddenly made redundant. He asked me before I went to work and by midday I was packing up my car and driving to his. We had already discussed that when I moved in I wouldn't need to work, so it was perfect timing.

My car broke down on the way to our first date so I think we've levelled out luck-wise now

Took a gamble on some Chinese coins from the 1800s at an auction, paid £12 plus commission. Long story short we then took them to Heritage in London who sent them to Texas to be authenticated... they then went on to be sold at a specialist auction in Hong Kong 2 months later for £280,000. Changed our lives entirely.

@MrsAvocet

My parents were burgled shortly before I got married and one of the things that was stolen was my jewellery box which I'd taken there from my house to be ready for the wedding. There was nothing particularly expensive in it but quite a few things of sentimental value, most significantly a ring my great aunt had given me a few weeks before she died. About 3 years later my Dad had sprayed their drive with weed killer to get rid of moss that had grown between the paving stones. Once the moss had died, my Mum saw something glinting in the sunlight and found it to be my great aunt's ring, wedged between two paving stones on its edge. How tiny must the chances of that happening be?

Ah that's lovely, and I'm sure your aunt would be happy about that x

My son and daughter. When I look at them I can’t believe that they happened to me. Sorry is that a bit soppy

I tried online dating and on my second ever online date I met my wonderful husband.

My wife and I had our first Round of ivf (my egg her carrying) and despite her suffering a lot of bleeding in the first trimester and us being told a few times to wait for the inevitable our little man is now four weeks and fast asleep on me now.

I will never forget how lucky we are 🥰

I made an error at work. When I realised I literally felt like I was on the edge of a cliff.

I stayed calm, made a phonecall and by some absolute miracle there was no consequence to the error. It could have cost the company 6k but it didn't. I often think how lucky I was that day.

After many attempts IVF worked so lucky to have my DC

A few. I've also been extremely unlucky as well, so it all balances

• I was born v. prematurely and only survived at the beginning because my nan INSISTED to the doctors at the hospital that my mum was in labour (they were going to discharge her).

• When I was a kid, our house got struck by lightning during my birthday party. An upstairs chimney breast collapsed in the room we'd been playing Sardines in about twenty minutes previously. We were all fine.

-Didn't get into a taxi with a really odd driver. Saw him in the paper a few months later; he'd been picking up women to attack.

• Went away for a few days this summer and stayed at a b&b I'd not been to before. The owners were lovely, I had a really nice birthday (I didn't told anyone about it, I'd just decided to spend it away on my own with no added plans or pressure), and when I tried to check out they refused my money and told me to go treat myself. Still don't get why, but it was so kind of them.

€6000 for one word. A long running radio competition where you had to complete a sentence. It started with "The blanks are blanks" - listeners had to ring in and guess the blanks, if they weren't guessed the pot went up by €10 a day...so it had been going for a long, long while!

Someone finally guessed the first blank - marshmallows. From that I knew what the second word was but for weeks I couldn't get though. Then, one Friday morning, there was a ringing tone - not an engaged one. A really bored voice said "you're the third guess. Hold." and I was on!!!

Deep breath. "Floaters".

OMFG!!! I was right!!! €6,000 for one word!! Several years earlier the wacky morning team had tried to flush various items and somewhere in my head I'd remembered that they hadn't been able to flush the marshmallows.

My A level history exam. I understood about 20% of the course. That part happened to be the part which came up on the exam. I got 100%. Had it been any other part of the course my grade would have looked so different 😬😬

A few things. Of course I want to say “meeting OH, who is brilliant”, but in external terms, here is the best:
We booked a non-refundable hol, OH immediately made redundant, panic, suddenly the CMS contacted me saying they had recovered money from my ExDH for the exact amount (apart from pence) to cover the hol

After I got engaged I was showing my diamond ring off in a nightclub to a friend I bumped into - she drunkenly grabbed my hand and it slipped off, landed on the dance floor. We spent absolutely ages with our torches on our phones looking for it, but nothing.

Went home ring-less, very upset, then-fiancé very upset with me etc. Assumed at best it was stolen, it was pretty rough area and I'd had lipstick nicked from my bag there before.

Phoned the nightclub in the morning anyway to double check and someone had found it and handed it in! Couldn't believe my luck

A few years ago now, but we won the lottery. Not millions, but tens of thousands.

Going to a large event with ds. We'd been before, never particularly busy...

That year it was. We hit the queue to get in several miles away. I almost turned back, then got chatting to a lovely chap on a bike who was coming the other way. He told me to take the next right and follow the road round.
So I did. It brought us back into the queue about half a mile from the entrance.

But when we arrived the queue for tickets was ridiculous. I looked at it and realised there was no way we'd get in as it would hit capacity.
So I said to ds that we'd go and sit near the fence where we could see a little of what was going on, eat lunch and then go home.

So we're at the fence and an official taps me on the shoulder and asks if I was paying by card. I said "yes, but..." Indicating the queue.
He tells me to follow him. So we did.
Turned out one of the queue's card machines had stopped working, so he was taking those from that queue at the front to another queue to pay. Goodness knows why he thought we were one of the queue because we were nowhere near any queue.

So he takes us to the front of another queue. Family at the front of the queue starts screaming that they were here first and he's pushing in and won't listen to explanations.
He suddenly shrugs his shoulders, tells us to follow him again and let's us in for free.

As we went in they announced that the venue was at capacity and no one else was being allowed in. (which included screaming family)

So we got in for free as well!

When I was 10 I won a Tamagotchi in a competition.

I love all these stories! Especially yours @PaddleBoardingMomma

I have always been lucky. Don't get me wrong I've been through some terrible stuff (abusive partner, being made homeless twice, etc etc) but overall I've been so fortunate. I put it down to right place right time and coincidence mostly.

There is a line in a Gladys knight song "I've had my share of life's ups and downs, but fate's been kind and the downs have been few". I always think of this and am so grateful for my lot.