To ask what's the worst thing you've ever won in a competition or raffle?

[ChunkyKnit]

Blatantly based on the other thread

When I was 12, I won a vinyl record of Bill Cosby’s greatest hits at a raffle.

We didn’t own a record player, and I wasn’t a Cosby fan.

I asked the lady running the raffle if I could swap it for another prize but she gave me a very firm “no”. I’m still bitter.

A dog poop scoop. But that was intended as a joke price. (And actually we used it for shovelling compost when repotting houseplants.)

A red rimmel lips stick...I was 9 at the time!

A bottle of British sherry.

Fortunately I didn't win, but at my kids school last year one of the raffle prizes was a massive used CD rack. Basically, they were winning the opportunity of a self funded tip run.

A school raffle at a school fair. All the other families were winning movie tickets, toys, chocolates, pamper hampers, awesome gift vouchers, electronics (the president of our school council worked her butt off to organise this and was very well-connected).

Our name was called last. We were so excited! We'd never won a raffle before.

We won a bag with a couple of meat sauce marinades and a couple of small jars of chutney that you could purchase from the supermarket, presented in a small (used) gift bag. I'll never forget the look on the kids faces when they saw what we won.

Didn't end up using any of them.

A giant parsnip, about half a metre long. Strangest prize perhaps but definitely not worst - it made a lovely soup.

A one month sign up to a gym....that was never open

Strangely enough it was a school raffle too

Always annoying at school fairs when you donate alcohol to the bottle tombola and win back a bottle of squash. 🤪

A box of mint Matchmakers. You might ask what is wrong with that ?
On opening they looked like they had spent some time underwater ! The outside pack was sealed and looked completely fine , but the actual chocs were slimy and almost dripping in a liquid.Went in the bin and I proper sulked

Our local Facebook group did a raffle with all the local businesses. There were some good prizes but as a 38 year woman with a 15 year old DS I won a.... Princess Party 👍

I won a swim float with a big pink/purple monster on it. My tween/teenage sons were horrified. The 9 year old girl on the next table was delighted with it.

The worst was in the school fair. I won smellies that were 5 years out of date. Straight in the bin. I did wonder if they’d been regifted each year back to the school.

I won a baby activity centre on the tombola at my nephews school fair. It was ancient, pretty sure a mid 80s job. There are no babies in our family at al. If that wasn't bad enough, there was a poo smear on the sliding picture frame bit.

A tin of green lentils.

Tombola - a tin of hotdog sausages & a tin of raspberries, DS2 very upset he wanted to win the chocolates.

Me height in mini eggs. Luckily I'm tall.

A signed Mary J blige album

When I was a temp before going to college - a large casserole dish, which was the most boring present imaginable for an 18 year old. (Though I gave it to my mum and now I use it happily) But the worst was that all the regular employees were really angry that a mere temp had won something - I should just have yielded it to them, but I didn't realize til later why people were a bit off with me for a couple of days.

Not a raffle...but a father at the school my now adult child went to put lighters in the party bags of 5 year old children.

We have a monthly raffle for a charity at work.

I won a free parking space for a month. Our car park is a fair walk to the office and the free parking space is directly outside the offices, fantastic, except I'm home based and vary rarely go into the office I actually won it two months running

Well this is my first reply to any thread I believe, but couldn't resist. It's a toss up between a cuddly toy pritt stick glue, like literally a pritt stick made out of cuddly toy material. Or a year's subscription to a magazine, which basically was them begging for money each month. Every month they would send me about £20/30 of raffle tickets to sell and guilt laden letters. I'm not sure how that classes as a prize!

Tombola at my work staff festival, I won a bottle of kraken rum, a sushi making kit and a pack of three g string thongs with slogans such as "kiss me" and "touch me" in silver glitter on the front

That doesn't sound so bad, LynseyLou!

A jam jar of hinges, complete with fabric covering the lid.

A four pack of babycham in a school event raffle. I was 6! I don't think my parents were with me so they wouldn't let me take it home!

A frying pan and a deck chair in bingo when I was about 13

As a brownie aged 8/9, we had a Christmas lucky dip - everyone put a small gift in and took something out. Nothing special but most people put in a small box of malteasers etc. I pulled out a sign that was something like you'd have in a pub - something engraved on a silver plate thing . Hurting and pretty humiliating