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Do you ever win stuff?

TheCatWoman

Apart from half a bottle of Glenmorrangie one year, I never seem to win anything. I do my "spins" every month when I put my meter readings in, never win anything and I've been doing them every month for years. 

I did the lottery for 6 months and barely won my stake money back, my DiL does it and keeps an account book of wins an losses and comes out ahead every month, sometimes by a few hundred pounds and a month where she merely breaks even is a disapointment.

It seems to run in the family too, my parents had premium bonds for years and never won anythng and my Dad did the football pools for years and never won anything either.

Now I don't even bother, I know you've got to be in it to win it, but I seem to be in it to fund the gains of others!

Do you win stuff when you enter competitions?

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  • I won a handsome cerise cable-knit hand-knitted wool jumper in a raffle when in the sixth form in 1983. It was very warm and I kept it for around 30 years.

    Just before that, I won the debut album by Diamond Head in a competition in the local paper.

    I won the National Lottery once (£10).

    I have won small cash prizes at shows for my marmalade, lemon curd and biscuits.

    I was part of some successful pub quiz teams when younger, if that counts. Prizes were generally food and drink.

    In the last three years, I have won raffle prizes at dog club parties but most of us donate a prize and then win something.

    I enter free prize draws every now and then if I fancy the prize and trust the organisers, but have no expectation of ever winning!

    Mr T wins rosettes rather more often, and I am happy for him to hold the household's competition good luck in his paws.

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  • I won a handsome cerise cable-knit hand-knitted wool jumper in a raffle when in the sixth form in 1983. It was very warm and I kept it for around 30 years.

    Just before that, I won the debut album by Diamond Head in a competition in the local paper.

    I won the National Lottery once (£10).

    I have won small cash prizes at shows for my marmalade, lemon curd and biscuits.

    I was part of some successful pub quiz teams when younger, if that counts. Prizes were generally food and drink.

    In the last three years, I have won raffle prizes at dog club parties but most of us donate a prize and then win something.

    I enter free prize draws every now and then if I fancy the prize and trust the organisers, but have no expectation of ever winning!

    Mr T wins rosettes rather more often, and I am happy for him to hold the household's competition good luck in his paws.

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