to banish DH to the spare room until he finds the receipt

[edwinbear]

DH entered a prize draw to win a £2,500 cellar of wine, we had a call this afternoon to say he'd won! Fantastic, this will save us a months wine bill fortune, all he needs to do is send them the receipt for the bottle which had the code thing on it.......can he find it? Can he hell.

Do you have a shed?

Is it likely to be in the spare room? Banishment would appear to be counter-productive otherwise.

do you have a cellar?

Why would you have kept a receipt for a bottle of wine? What a bizarre method of proving your entitlement to a prize!

Sod the shed or cellar, banish the bugger to the coal hole.

Seriously though, why would you keep a receipt? I hope he finds it.

It is quite likely to be in the spare room as this is where the computer is, and every other single piece of paper that he has accumulated over the last 20 years such as car insurance for a car he owned in 1983 and the survey from a house we sold 10 years ago. It's either there or in the bin, which was collected on Thursday. The tip opens at 9am tomorrow morning and I shall be providing him with a pair of Marigolds in readiness.

If he's a habitual paper-keeper, maybe you should be joining him down the tip.

I would have hoped he would have kept it as it said quite clearly that you would need to send it in as proof of purchase if you won - he admitted he had noticed that. It is slightly bizarre I agree.

Spare room it is then!!

I hope he finds it!!

I know the competition you mean. As I unpacked the wine I noticed the competition but even by then I'd lost the receipt! Would proof of purchase do? Hope it turban up

Turns

Oh no! It could be worse - at least he hasn't lost a Euromillions winning ticket....

Your poor DH. I would be so cross with myself if I were him.

Have you searched all his pockets/wallets?

Sounds like they would have had quite a small number of entires for the competition on that basis! Seriously, by the time I would even have read the competition rules (on the side of the wine bottle? or wherever) it could have been a week since I bought the wine. Who keeps a supermarket receipt for that length of time?

Stealth the Penfolds one? Yes, the very same.

Exackty annh! Yes, definitely bought penfolds recently (and if the receipt turns up by some miracle you are welcome to it)

thanks, we had to type the receipt code into their website in order to enter so it needs to be this specific receipt. But I do have a cunning plan to see whether Waitrose can get us a copy....it's a long shot but for £2,500 of wine it has to be worth a try.

Did the receipt turn up?

We managed to get a duplicate from Waitrose, fantastic people that they are....it has 'duplicate' written on it but other than that, it's exactly the same. It's being sent tomorrow, so fingers crossed they accept it!

Hope they accept it!

Back seat of the car....

Good luck, hope they accept the duplicate