Raffles

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AiBU to detest a raffle?

They're always won by the person who can afford shitloads of tickets (or worse, by shear luck), by the people who could just walk out and buy the booty anyway? Am always sat there like a chump, having scraped the cash together.

I know. Tell me I'm over-reacting! I'm in my fifty- second year and counting down the things I suddenly have zero tolerance for. And it's for charity. (Hard hat donned.)

Oh a raffle

I pictured the character and then wondered if you were talking about the chocolate bar

An actual raffle didnt come into my head

Which is odd because I walked past a pub earlier today with a sign outside advertising a meat raffle. I mean who does a meat raffle these days?

Or even attends one?

Oh god, this is what I thought your thread was about from the title, and they're not even called Raffles

https://www.poundland.co.uk/ruffles-raspberry-coconut-flavour-bars-pack-of-5?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3vO3BhCqARIsAEWblcAFB4V6Rwve6icS4-bNXofNhJphPTi4Bhte5Jtla1CXhiePJ4olU9AaAhsDEALw_wcB

I thought this was going to be about hotels

I was thinking what chocolate bars are called raffles🤣🤣🤣

I don't mind them. I've had many losing ones.
The odd junk item or biscuits. Although 20 years or so ago now I felt pressure to buy tickets for one. I was skint. I used one of my last pounds to buy 2 tickets.
Both won , 1st was a tin of quality street. 2nd was £1000 cheque.
Never been lucky like that again

We did a raffle at my dc’s school last summer. Only paid for the one ticket so didn’t expect much. Unexpectedly won but the shampoo burns the head so it kinda didn’t work very well

Toblerone?

More chocolate

I'd forgotten these existed! 😋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J.Raffles(character)

Went to some fundraising clothes sale type do at my dc old primary school, years after they left.
DD wanted to try something on, asked me to go with her just as they were drawing the raffle. As she emerged from the changing cubicle but too far for us to go back quickly I heard them shout last call for ticket number ( my ticket) , no? We’ll pass to the next ticket….and my prize of posh champagne went to someone else 😢
Dont think I’d ever won in a raffle before. Or since.

I'm old and immediately thought of cigarettes 😬

I can’t get worked up about a raffle.
Actually won a meal for 2 with wine at a very posh hotel once. It was a raffle for my dcs school. I would never have been able to afford the meal otherwise. It was about 20 years ago now and the wine alone was priced at £25 a bottle.

I once went to a raffle that was so disorganised that awarding of the prizes went on for hours. Indispersed with carols where they'd used at least two different carol pamphlets so nearly every time here were at least two mumbly carols going on.

I'd not driven, so was stuck with a group of people I didn't know well who appeared to think it was a brilliant evening.

I like a raffle. Won a Nintendo DS on one once when they were quite a new thing. I was a student at the time so definitely not minted.

Well it’s always ‘by shear luck’ you just have more chance if you’ve bought more tickets. Raffles, like gambling generally, is a good way to get rid of money but possibly a bit of fun. If it’s not even fun then I’d definitely not bother partaking.

When I was in primary school it had to close down (not my fault, honest guv), and believe it or not they raffled the school goldfish - and I won the poor thing! And it WAS a poor thing, its tail and gills had been partially eaten away by some kind of mite. So my DGran changed his water and cleaned his bowl each day, and after a while they grew back. All of which is irrelevant to your post OP, sorry about that but it reminded me!

This one of the funniest things I've read on here😁
And yes I thought the post was about the hotel in Singapore 😐

Raffles are just a donation to charity with a small chance of winning a prize.

Better a raffle than a cake stall where you buy the ingredients to make a cake for someone else to buy and then buy a cake someone else has made to take home which is never as nice as the one you made yourself

I generally love a raffle. I won a massive hamper last year at a charity xmas disco thing. Loads of lovely M&S things. Cost me a whole £1 for a strip of tickets. Was not so fun carrying it home though.

My DP insisted on buying several strips at a charity fete this summer. The prizes were bloody awful. Things like hat and scarf sets (in the summer), loom band kit things. We didn't stay for the draw so had to give contact details. Thank fuck we didn't win anything.

Oh the baking-yes!
The last time I did it for my dcs school, it cost me a fortune and took quite a long time. Only for me to rock up to school and see my bins being sold for 5 pence each!
I actually said us that all you are charging?
That was the last time I baked for the school.

Buns, not bins.