To return my winning hamper?

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So
We won the hamper from the preschool nativity
It’s huge
And the 2nd hamper I’ve won in a week 🙈
The first one (from works Xmas do) we are giving to grandparents for Xmas
This other one is ginormous, there is so much stuff, we do not have a big enough house for all this stuff 🙈, I don’t want to seem ungrateful but we just don’t need it and want to do something better with it than take it home.

Here are some options that I can see

1. Ask them to give it to the staff to take home if they are short of any gifts for staff
2. Ask them to hold another raffle in the new year - not sure how easy this would be - surely a sign on the door would suffice?
3. Take it to the food bank - removing booze and donating that to the village hall raffle tomorrow night for the brass band carol concert we are going to.
4. Take it to the food bank but ask preschool to take the booze for staff.

One massive thing to remember here though is that the staff all donated this stuff for the hamper so I don’t want to appear ungrateful by offering it back to them 🙈

I just don’t want to come across as ungrateful or rude

Please help

I’m open to other suggestions too 😊

I would go with taking it to a food bank, donating the booze to the raffle.
Well done on being so lucky

Food bank

Me too

Take out some bits that you might want, find it hard to believe there’s nothing in it you’d want. Give rest to food bank & raffle

3

I would go with option 4

it would be ungrateful and rude to refuse to accept it. what you do with it is up to you.

I think it would be super weird to return it and also quite rude. Donate it to a food bank.

#3

I would regift the booze and take the rest to a food bank. That’s so lovely of you.

Ask them to draw another ticket so someone else can win it.

Food bank.

Option 3

Why did you enter if you didn't want the prize?

Definitely option 3

Food banks don't want this sort of stuff. They need the basics. But you could make someone's year by simply giving the hamper to them.

Do you know anyone who's struggling or having a hard time in some way?* It doesn't have to be a pity gesture. You could even say you wanted to pass it on to a friend and picked a name out of a hat.

*When my husband was terminally ill one Christmas and I was off work caring for him, there was a knock at the door, and a delivery man handed me a huge hamper. Some of my colleagues had clubbed together (I think one of their partners worked for John Lewis) and sent it as a surprise. Our teenaged daughters were home too, and we'd never had a hamper in our lives. The excitement as we took out item after item after item was one of the most joyous moments at such an awful time. We still talk about it, and that was seven years ago!
I think doing something like that is far better than having stuff just end up randomly in a food bank parcel.

Food bank, don’t even consider anything else.

Food banks don't want this sort of stuff. They need the basics

This is nonsense. Food bank users are as entitled to nice stuff at Christmas as anyone else. I bought 20 selection boxes for ours, they were delighted.

Donate it to a refuge?

Why do you think a food bank wouldn’t want this stuff sara? Do people who are experiences financial hardship lose their taste buds/enjoyment of a more luxurious food item? We don’t even know what’s in the hamper.

Why did you enter if you didn't want the prize
Because you don't enter with the intent of winning - you enter to be part of those decent people contributing to the much needed (pre?) school funds.
Winning is a bonus not an expectation.

@emojisarentwords
I entered to help the preschool to raise funds to build a forest school classroom. Surely it’s commonplace to just want to help raise funds for things like this without necessarily needing the gift?

Option 3

@northernlittledonkey there are certainly lots in the hamper that we would use and consume, I just want to do good with it rather than taking it home.

Option three definitely