Unwanted prizes (not from Gransnet!)

I would just love to win something LOL, the nearest I got was when my sister was a baby, I had gone to a Christmas Fayre, there was a fairy doll there you had to guess the name of, 2 of us put the same name & there had to be a draw, I of course lost, I so wanted that doll for my baby sister.

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When asked to donate a prize for a tombola, my ex used to take the label off a can of prunes and hand it in as a 'mystery prize'. Nuff said.

Twenty odd years ago I won £250 worth of eyebrow tattooing!
Needless to say I didn't collect!

When my mother was well into her 80s she won a skateboard in a raffle!

phoenix That's like the tin of prunes that turns up every year at the Harvest Festival.

I won a flight to Jersey for two people. No accommodation there..just a flight. At the time I was scared of flying . Oh anno; that is so cruel [but so funny]. And the paint roller reminds me of my mothers day present one year; a tin of paint and a brush and a promise from my ex that he'd look after the children for the day. The S.O. always wins something in the village raffle [they seem to have one every week]; it's usually biscuits and we always have to check the sell by date on them.

Surely there must be a trophy somewhere for the truly dreadful bottle of wine that has appeared time after time in tombola/raffles?

we won a week's holiday at a self-catering holiday camp for 6 people. 'WOW!' we thought. But the holiday had to be taken in the winter months and not during school holidays, I decided that if we took 4 friends I would probably end up doing the cooking, we took our bicycles and found the place was extremely hilly, we were right on the perimeter and felt as if we were in prison, my husband was not allowed to sail as it was so cold he would have got hyperthermia if he had fallen in,I could go on, it was the holiday from hell. We were really glad to leave. I have to say that we have since been back with the family in good weather and had a fabulous time.

I entered a competition to win a microwave oven. I got the second prize - a microwave cook book.

A paint roller and tray, I think the prize was supposed to be a room makeover, well it was in a way.