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.

Two haircuts by a hairdresser who is a household name and a hairdryer from their product range.

I always wear my hair up so I don't bother having haircuts or blowdrying it. I gave them to a colleague who returned to the office the day after her appointment to report that the hairdresser seemed to be inebriated. The poor woman's hair looked like it had been trimmed with blunt garden shears.

We were camping when DS1 was about 5 and had a raffle one night. He had his eye on a Ben 10 Nintendo DS case and sticker set. SILs number got called so she kindly picked the set he so coveted. She handed it to him and said "you can keep your ds nice and safe now". His reply? "I don't have one" (he did get one for his birthday and still keeps it safely in its Ben 10 case 10 years later)

At the school Christmas Fayre a couple of years later DS2 proudly told me he had got me a "brilliant present. You'll love it Mummy". On Christmas morning he proudly presented me - wrapped in a tea-towel from the kitchen- with a set of wooden spoons
No idea what he won them on but he thought I'd love them nonetheless.

I used to enter a lot of competitions and did fairly well (a few holidays, cash etc.)
One day at work we were talking about it and someone asked what was the worst prize I'd ever won.
I said "well, it wasn't me but I saw some posts yesterday about a load of people who had won some vaginal lubricant - not a full pack though, just a sample".

We had a giggle about it.

Then when I got home that day, guess what had arrived in the post

A mock Victorian china doll in frillies. Hideous, like something from a bad horror film. Shudder.

It wasn't the worst but definitely quite embarrassing !

I won a foot long sub from Subway hand delivered randomly to my work in a competition I didn't even know I'd entered 😂

a bottle of mayonnaise
Not even 30 seconds before that i turned to my partner and said 'imagine if we won the mayo'

🤣

It was a local raffle to raise funds for the youth club and a hairdresser donated a free set of highlights which I won, excitement!! Except as they were free she took the opportunity to use me as a guinea pig for a type of foils she hadn’t tried before and promptly fucked up my hair. It was like big chunks of blonde in my light brown hair and I looked like legolas. Ended up doing an emergency boots run for nice and easy to cover it up. Couldn’t really do much as they were free, but it was a nightmare!!

A homemade toy Womble. It was green.

I won a handmade gun cabinet for storing rifles...at age 10. My dad was thrilled with it, and it is still in my parents' house displaying his favourite historical rifles.

Not a raffle. I won slimmer of the week once at slimming world. If people aren't aware everyone is meant to bring a piece of fruit or food for the basket prize for the summer of the week. In that basket was a tin of baked beans from 1982 🤮

OdaMaeBrown oh my word you'd be raging!!!
Dh once won what we thought was a beauticians voucher, I was so grateful as he picked it out of a table full of prizes. When I got there she said it couldn't be used on every day treatments, only massages, but the massages cost 30€ more than the voucher!! I told her I had no money and didnt go back. Was gutted for dh

A big basket of donated items from participants at a car boot sale. So think of all the stuff you bring to sell that you want to get rid of. Then think of the items you'd be willing to just give away for free rather than have to bring it home again, because it's so awful/rubbish/worthless. I got a big basket of that.

And we were selling at the boot sale ourselves because we wanted to get rid of junk in our house

Pre-school raffle a few years ago: awful white plasticky-looking handbag - very obviously secondhand with marks on it.

A broken ornament in a child’s lucky dip

At a corporate event with some work colleagues.....one of them one a smear test!! In absolute stitches all night.

I won a signed, framed rugby shirt....A1 sized, the same night. Better than the smear test, but I have zero interest in rugby!

My mum took the dc to an event where there was a raffle. She had a winning ticket so let DS (4 at the time) go and choose. He came back with a rather worn red pleather handbag that probably cost less than £10 brand new. She was a bit worried he got it for her so she suggested “ is that for mummy?” But no, it was for himself and he carried his toy cars in it everywhere we went for a couple of months

DD was very proud when she won a bottle of wine for me at the school tombola.

It was alcohol free.

A hijab. At a Christmas fair. I quite liked it.

Had to leave the school fete before the raffle was drawn, someone proudly dropped off my prize for me on their way home saying 'your DD will love this'. It was a very dirty threadbear rabbit toy that was coming apart at the seams. It went straight in the bin.

School tombola, a heavily used set of salad mixers and some.choc liqueurs that were out of date and had gone white and solidified

A hideous balsa wood nose shape that was for holding a pair of glasses - complete with orange fluffy eyebrows on top.

I didn't have anyone I disliked enough to re-gift it to so it ended up in the bin.

A very, very weird picture book called Nudinits. Think puerile smutty humour and relentless sexual innuendo in knitted form. Knitting patterns for naked puppets etc included.

I was horrified, and am too ashamed even to give it to try to give it to a local charity shop in case they link it back to me with the Gift Aid.

What really dismays me is that it was given to me specifically in a work Secret Santa, with a thoughtful little (anonymous) note attached, so someone presumably bought it thinking I'd love it. The shame!

Disappointing in that it was a fabulous, very valuable prize... but totally useless to me.

Round of golf for 4 at a posh country manor golf course nearby.

I don't play golf.

A set of chakra cards 🤪. Fuck knows what you do with them so art from donate to another raffle.

When I was 7 I won a frozen chicken in a yellow bucket. Every 7yo's dream prize.

An incredibly creepy pot clown.

I was nine and it terrified me.