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.

Oh my God, I mean I am very allergic to animals, not holidays!!!! Doh!!!

A hamper of Fry’s Turkish Delight. Ugh.

A Boomtown rats mirror..... I was about 11 so I gifted it to my dad.

I was at a new years eve event with my parents when I was about 25. I won a hat signed by Jenson Button - my dad had to tell me who he was add I had no idea. He then won a pole dancing lesson...! We swapped

I won a prize from the Take A Break magazine. Not a car or holiday but a plastic red and yellow watch with take a break on the strap 😏

I was on holiday and entered a tombola. I was dead chuffed to win a really nice smellies set. (Unlike most here I love them) I spent the next couple of days looking forward to a luxurious bath when I got home. Came to pack for home and realised I had no way of getting it home as I'd flown hand luggage only. All components significantly over 100ml. I was well hacked off but not enough to pay for hold luggage.

£1000. Sounds amazing doesn't it. It went through my company so I paid tax on it and couldn't actually splurge it on tat.

I win a raffle and could choose between two things, one was a candle, the other 4 cans of Special Brew. I chose the candle which seemed to cause amazement. The person running the raffle said 'you know you can have the Special Brew?'
I explained I preferred the candle to which he said 'we've had that for years, no one ever chooses it. Have you moved here from London?'
And yes, we had!

My husband once won ( back in the day) some hair crimpers. Poor fella, he hasn’t won anything since

A bottle of dodgy-looking English wine. Given the state of the label, we were not the first to bung it straight back into the next school tombola.

@FelicisNox

A Boomtown rats mirror..... I was about 11 so I gifted it to my dad.

I need to hear more about this.

Do you look into it and it magically gives you Bob Geldof’s hair?

A meat hamper.

I'm a lifelong vegetarian.

@RaininSummer

I came second in a recipe competition years ago. First prize was an Alaskan cruise. Second prize was a framed picture of my dish! How cheap and disappointing.

Hai Karate! And this wasn’t that long ago!

A boiler service, I rent my home and it doesn’t have a boiler.

Two toothbrush holders in the shape of lizard tails that stick onto tiles/mirror. My DD and my ex liked them so she took them there. The other prizes on both raffles were far more exciting and the toothbrush holders came from a lovely home wares shop that has many things I really like.

It has to be a plastic moustache!

I won the main prize (an expensive digital camera) at a raffle where I was drawing and calling the ticket numbers. I chose another number of course and my DH was (joke) raging. I have never won a raffle prize before or since!

About 30 years ago I won a see through telephone in a magazine competition

Not me but my coeliac daughter won a tin of biscuits at a school fayre. Luckily they were happy to swap it for a tub of chocolates after she’d explained that she’s coeliac.

Dc and I spent £10 on raffle tickets hoping for one of the toy sets (there was 20 different prizes) but won the last one called which was a toilet brush from poundland.

I used to work in early years and we were doing a raffle for charity and asked parents to donate a bottle of something if they wanted. One of the parents clearly didn't understand and brought in an empty bottle of washing up liquid. We raffled it off for a laugh but I don't know who won it

At a church fair there was always a tombola where the winning tickets and with 0 or 5 and the prizes are things like jam, bubble bath etc. Only 10p a go.I went up with my 5 year old daughter and she did draw a 5, we couldn't spot the ticketed prize on the table. The last reached under the table, and beamed, as no doubt she finally had a suitable victim recipient for the monstrosity she then pulled out.

It was an enormous pink and silver hobby horse (horse head on a stick with wheels). It was ancient and grubby with a matted mane and bent unicorn horn.

We had a skip on our drive at the time and I tried to quietly hoist it in on the way home but was foiled. Daughter adored it and insisted on going to bed with the skanky thing

The LADY not last, sorry.

Not as good as some of the prizes here, but a few years ago, I entered a raffle at a local primary school. About a week later, I received a few missed calls from the school (they really were keen to get hold of me!), and when I rang back, the staff member told me excitedly that I had won a prize and that I should come to collect it.
I was really excited! What could it be? A nice bottle of something? A voucher? The Kenwood mixer? There had been such a nice selection of prizes that it was bound to be something nice...
Off I trotted to collect my prize. And it was.. a truly hideous ornament! It was a cottage, I think, and really tacky. The box was a bit battered, too, and looked as though it had been donated and won and re-donated several times over. Gutted!

I donated it to a charity shop on the way home...

A paper shredder, at a school raffle. Oh the excitement to get home and use it 😂