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.

@Alicesweewonders
Paul McCartney tickets, I didn't go.
Why not?! I paid shedloads to see Macca, they would've been worth heaps! Obviously no point if you're not a fan, did you sell them on?

I won an absolutely huge gift basket full of expensive toiletries- posh shampoo, body scrubs, bath stuff, all nice brands. Anyone who knows me knows I have no interest in that sort of stuff and it was completely wasted on me!! However lots were smaller gift boxes which I regifted.

What us it with toiletries? I once won a gift set from the body shop which had a slightly battered box, at a netball club fundraiser. I was told afterwards it was a club joke, it appeared at every raffle they did, and I should submit it again next year for someone else to win. As I had no interest in toiletries (see above) I was happy to do so. I wonder if it is still doing the rounds 😂

I won a prize for being one of the fastest entrants in a school treasure hunt thing aged 9 and was not amused at receiving a teletubbies easter egg in front of the class! The box was recycled pdq. Tasted ok though.

I've never won anything on a raffle/tombola but my mum once won a New Forest pony! She was not amused!

My yr 5 form mistress was adamant that one of us smelt bad and needed to start using deodorant. We had a raffle at school for yr 4,5,6 for something or another and the booby prize was a deodorant... won by a mere babe in the year below. We were convinced our teacher bunged that in on the off chance the stinker won it!

I once won a really garish multi-coloured T shirt in a school raffle which I never wore.

More recently, won the football shirt of a team he dislikes. Ended up in a charity shop.

when I was at school I did a french competition and I think I had a day off and when I came back, my friend told me I had won, and the prize was a tin of vegetables. I thought she was joking. she wasn't.

I won a pair of inflatable egg cups on a local radio phone competition. Just odd.

recently at a school tombola I won a really posh box of toiletries. I was going to donate it to the local womens refuge. Then I got home and opened it and someone had filled it with loads of really cheap, horrible sweets that no one liked. It didn't get donated and most of the sweets were thrown away.

A pair of plastic Gary Lineker ears

My prize was from Mumsnet. Main prize was a nice handbag so I entered, instead I won lube which apparently was sperm friendly and helped you to conceive! I was single and if I wasn’t I would be preventing not trying to help sperm! It was fairly expensive stuff but not something you could give to the charity shop or to people you know like most unwanted prizes!

When I was at primary school, a friend’s mum won a moped in the fete raffle. Except she’d misheard and it wasn’t a moped, but a mop head. Cue many stifled giggles at her excitement followed by dawning realisation

I remebered earlier, that I also won some avocado bathroom accesories (yep, mid eighties), a little plastic shelf with holes for toothbrushes and a soap dish. I must have been about seven or eight and wanted to keep it, but my grandmother convinced me to leave it with her for uncle C once he moved out.
He was only ten years older than me and lived at home until his mother died in 2012.

This has reminded me of a thread from a couple of years ago where a primary school was doing a prize draw for a Spider-Man mug and an Elsa mug. The OP’s DD was drawn first and chose the Spider-Man mug. Chaos ensued when a boy drew second prize and refused the ‘girly’ Frozen prize. I seem to recall OP actually had to go into the school to get the staff to hand over her daughter’s Spider-Man mug as the awesome DD had unwittingly set off a bit of a gender stereotyping battle. I like to think that poor Elsa mug is still floating around in a cupboard somewhere...

He wouldn’t have got my Spider-Man mug... 😡

A bottle of prune juice. I was 9.

You might have been 9 but I bet you were regular 💩

@Davros hahahaha funnily enough my mum made the same joke and I was completely mortified at the time. The story really makes us laugh now but back then I couldn't believe she'd dared to mention that I poo in public

Second prize in a Christmas Eve fancy dress comp in the pub. A shoe horn and a bar of coal tar soap .

Tickets for a rugby match that had been played two weeks before.

2 tickets to a beer festival. Both (then) dp and I were tee total.

Unfortunately she fell out of my boot while in a car park a few weeks later and her head fell off. I had left her in the car because I couldn't bear to have her in my house 🤣

A gift set of Lush cosmetics that were out of date - only by a couple of months, but they stank something awful (in a rotten sort of way, not just in the usual way they stink).

A jar of "pickled bums". They were these little stuffed fabric bums that somebody had put into a jar with some mustard seeds and peppercorns. It was 1985 and I was 6 years old. Even at that age I didn't think it was very funny, although my Dad did 🙄 and I think he still has said bums in his garage somewhere, probably with all the random screws and things that he insists on picking up from the road.

Wasnt me but in a work raffle last year my colleague won a camera tripod - the camera which went with said tripod was a separate prize and she didn’t win that one! She doesn’t have a camera at home and has no interest in photography.

So she left for the day carrying a pretty nice tripod under her arm with absolutely nothing to put on it.

At the village Christmas panto raffle at about age 8, I won a small selection pack where all the chocolate was in the shape of smoking paraphernalia. So a box of chocolate cigars, pipes, cigarettes, pipe cleaners etc. I can still remember how they tasted: not as nice as Cadbury's but better than Kinnerton.
It was a perefectly acceptable item for children in the 80s.

An Andrew Ridgely LP on a local radio show
Even the DJ laughed that there were only 2 entries!
I was bored doing the family ironing...

I was on the fundraising committee for my work and we had many contributions for Christmas raffle prizes. Someone donated 2 very scary looking toy turtles. We put them in as 2 separate prizes. I won 1 and my ex won the other I put them in the loft and donated them to the raffle the following year...I won both!!!! I then took them to the charity shop.