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.

At Primary school in the early 80s, a voucher for the local butcher for £2.50 worth of pork chops! My Mum had to persuade my Dad to give me the full value in cash for him to use it

Marmite chocolate.

Shaving cream - I was 9 or 10

90s sitcom friends merchandise- I was 6 so had never seen an episode

A tea towel, with a hole in it. Tea towel had a caption, saying welcome to Blackpool, and a faded picture of the Blackpool tower.!

Not me, but at a hobby/sports competition one weekend, the raffles were legendary for being shit. One of my team mates thought they'd done really well to have selected a bottle of whisky, until they got it back to the table and realised not only was it already open, but it was only 2/3rds full!

DP and I ‘jointly’ won a badminton competition in a ski resort about 5 years ago. He openly admitted that I was the one who made the majority of winning shots (being the better player at the time).

He was presented with a resort polo shirt (very sought-after, with cool graphic logo on the back).

I received .... a cheapo plastic ice-scraper for car windscreens and a Gallic shrug.

I thought the organiser-fucker was just joking around and after a few HILARIOUS minutes would hand me a cool shirt too, but no. DP genuinely nearly pissed himself he was laughing that hard.

The bastard wears (and gets complimented on), the shirt every time we play badminton to this day.

I am so over it.

Non alcoholic wine. Very disappointing!

One of those incredibly twee crochet toilet roll covers, but instead of the usual doll's body on top, it had a plastic cactus. Nice....

At our church autumn fair raffle we won a prize and you could pick from those displayed. Our ticket got pulled quite early on so there was a fair choice from chocolates, wine, toiletries, toys etc. My daughter wanted to pick so up she went (she was probably around 6 or 7 I would think) and came back beaming clutching a pack of red and green tea towels! 😂

A bottle of tomato wine.
Mere words cannot express how vile it was.

A tin of emulsion paint when I was 19.

A free photo session - blatantly one of the ones where they give you one passport size photo and ask you for £100s for other photos. I think they were short on raffle prizes so try had a few of those. I gave it back as I'd have had to find a bin for it otherwise.

my eldest son was really chuffed a few years ago when he won me a bottle of ‘champagne’ from a school raffle. i had to go over with him to collect it, to find out it was a bottle of lambrini 😂

An inflatable bondage chair.

a 6’ football goalpost. We gave it away on Facebook.

There's a set of red plastic salad servers doing the rounds of all the village hall clubs’ raffles which has been doing so since around 1993 (I've been reliably informed)

A “nana hamper” when I was 15 containing handkerchiefs, wethers originals, a cross word puzzle and pen, some talc and a small owl ornament in a wicker basket. I ended up giving it to my grandma for Christmas who told my mother she was offended as I’d given her gift for an old lady

A painting & an incredibly detailed cross-stitch work of art, neither of which were to my taste. Both went to the charity shop.

Tickets for a European Cup match. The day we were moving house, so was redrawn.

A meat raffle!

(I'm a life-long vegetarian)

A hamper. Every single thing in it was out of date, some by many months.

A piece of Maoam strips, it was just a consolation price and I was really unlucky as they had some really great prices, too. At the same time, I also won a private tennis lesson - I don't play tennis.

When I was three or four, I won a bottle of Champagne and a bottle of Cognac. It was the annual "meet the neighbours" party at the French garrison in my hometown, and if you won, you won, regardless of age. Things were a bit simpler (and a lot laxer) in the early 80s. Must say, my parents were quite happy with my haul. I wonder why...

For a number of years, I organised the raffle for the Christmas Party at my local sportsclub back home. The worst price that was donated was a handknitted jumper that wasn't finished and still had the needles in.

At a school raffle I won a voucher for a soft play which had shut down and in the same hamper a voucher for a paintball party which, when I tried to use it, had expired over a year previously.

Battle of the Sexes board game, from an online magazine competition (the main prizes were much better!)

When it arrived in the post I thought someone was playing a joke on me.

A trip to see the turtles in Zante, followed by a BBQ on the beach and a quad adventure. Great. Apart from it was for one and we had to pay 300 euros for someone else to go

I've told this story before on here.

At work a guy was holding a raffle with the top prize being a TV. The draw was taking place in our office during the working day, but he still sold tickets to friends and neighbours as well.

The winning number for the TV belonged to a neighbour. But he didn't get to win, as he wasn't there...