Have you ever won anything?

[mysteryowl]

Anything, from any source that you won something.

[Sherman A1]

1. Yes

from time to time.

[mysteryowl]

3. So unsatisfying

What, what did you win??

[Sherman A1]

8. A few items

A nice cooler in a United Way Raffle, A Camera Bag in a Facebook Contest, An Industry Service Award and a couple of elections in a Trade Group, along with a store display contest.

[mysteryowl]

18. FB contest? Hmmm?

[getagrip_already]

2. context?

Lottery? Election? The internet?

[mysteryowl]

5. Anything, from any source

[getagrip_already]

16. nothing significant, except life and happiness....

I feel like I won those. I could never believe the jobs I held or money I made was real. Plus I have a great family and have been with my wife since '78.

I'm sure karma has a big sucker punch coming at me, but I don't care.

[mysteryowl]

19. Oh, you are lovely!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

4. Yes.

I often win door prizes when I attend events that have such things 🤷🏼?♀️

[mysteryowl]

6. Ahhh, yes. good one.

[nature-lover]

7. A microscope at a science teachers conference

[mysteryowl]

10. Cool!

[MyOwnPeace]

20. KEWL!!!!

So, what do you see about this latest "virus" and is IQ45 hiring you for his research team?

disclaimer: I am NOT making fun of anybody that actually has anything to do with science - nor to suggest that this latest "virus" should be taken lightly.................

and a claim: I AM making fun of anybody that does not take science seriously!!!!

[nature-lover]

48. I can't imagine working for this president* in any capacity.

If my expertise was in this area I would volunteer with my local Emergency Management Team.

Ignoring science is kind of like karma - it will catch up with you. Our next administration will have a lot of work to repair the damage done by this one.

and it is a cool microscope. Thanks for the reply.

[we can do it]

9. A bunny and $100 from our softball team reverse raffle.

Not the same event😂

[mysteryowl]

12. I am glad for the qualifier! Ha!

[we can do it]

14. Bunny at magic show in fourth grade😂😻

[Siwsan]

11. I once won some bubble bath at a bingo party, and a bottle of bubbly at a trivia contest.

There seemed to be a theme to my wins.

Oh, and 'employee of the month' about 5 times. When I retired, they gave me a 'Employee of the Millennium' plaque. The company was being sold, anyway, so.........

[mysteryowl]

28. Woo - woo - bubble bath!

It is really something that you remember it!

[griffi94]

13. I once got a printed certificate.

It said that I had passed my eye test.

[mysteryowl]

21. Nope, doesn't count

[griffi94]

25. Then no.

[mysteryowl]

30. Okay, I don't want you to feel bad.

It counts, it counts!

[griffi94]

41. Thanks lol

[Boxerfan]

15. A few 3rd place trophies...Formula Single Roadracer

Long ago in a lifetime far far away....
Sears Point & Portland International. 5 to be exact. Built my own bike but my love of booze sidelined me. Also a broken neck in 2 places didn't help. I was lucky to walk away literally.
Sober going on 25 years and have a grown family so I did win one after all.

[mysteryowl]

22. Your turnaround was the award, indeed!

[MFM008]

17. 2500.00

At Bingo. 1988.

[mysteryowl]

24. Nice and memorable

I wonder how much 2500 would be today?

I looked it up:
$5,567.03

[MyOwnPeace]

23. Some "show car" auto parts..........

sign-up on-line and somehow I actually won. About $150 worth of "show" chrome for a sports car.

[sl8]

26. The Lottery of Life.

Shirley Jackson knew what she was talking about.

[keithbvadu2]

27. Won a boom box.

'Won' a 3 day vacation, with a time share hard sales pitch.
Did not go to claim my prize.

Won a 50/50 raffle but have bought far more tickets overall than the 'winnings'.
I count it as a donation to a good cause.
The winning is coincidental.

[frazzled]

29. Only once

Both my kids were down with chickenpox, one after the other, and we’d been in quarantine for some time. One day, at my wit’s end trying to keep them entertained and non-whiny, my husband, on the phone, said, “Forget about it. Just turn on the tv and get some really crappy treats for them.” So I turned on the set, left the 10 year old in charge of the 6 year old for fifteen minutes and went to the grocery, coming home with a bag of verboten Oreo cookies, hoping for an hour or two of peace.

My daughter opened it and came to inform me we had won a prize inside: a year’s supply of Oreo cookies. Just what I wanted. Every month a huge carton arrived with about a dozen packs of a Oreos. After about the first week, nobody in the house wanted to eat them. I tried giving them away to neighbors, but nobody wanted them. Then I hit on the food bank, which my daughter mightily protested, saying it was criminal to give poor people such unhealthy junk. I did it on the sly. Each month I’d take out 1 pack and send the rest to the food shelf.

[mysteryowl]

33. What a story!!!

[Ptah]

31. Draft lottery #26!

[dewsgirl]

32. Yes. I won a case of Harvest Snaps in assorted flavors,

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before they were on the market.
I won a necklace at a demo in the mall once also.
Also a cruise, I forgot about that one, I ended up giving it to a friend. I assumed it was a timeshare scam, it was, but they didnt push them the way the timeshare Orlando folks do.

[Tanuki]

34. A few things over the years. Some examples:

-A cd player, in a raffle to benefit the daycare center at the hospital where I worked at the time

-A $500 restaurant gift certificate, from a "rubber duck race" to benefit a charity for abused and neglected children

- A collection of several CDs by the recording artists who were playing at a benefit concert I attended in support of the YWCA's shelter for victims of domestic abuse here in Nashville

[Harker]

40. Good things...

coming from good deeds!

[customerserviceguy]

35. Yeah, a few times

The best was the 2019 Super Bowl. We were cleaning out the NY condo in preparation for the final load before coming to SC, and my lady was finding all kinds of stuff around the house. Envelopes with cash, some gift cards, bottles of liquor, etc.

One day, she told me she found something for me. Five years earlier, when my dad passed away, they had sent around a condolences card, and money was collected. I shoved it between two books, and promptly forgot about it. In the envelope there was 95 dollars! So, I stuffed the money into my wallet, and headed down to my favorite beer bar. I saw the Super Bowl pools, and figured that if I bought a fifty-dollar chance on the big board, I'd still have forty-five bucks left to drink with. Turns out, there was only one square left on that board, it was square number 95.

It also was the 3-3 square, which paid out both at the end of the third quarter and the end of the game. A found $50 became $3,250! Even after buying everybody a beer for the next two weeks, I still had quite a bit left. Some say that it was my Dad looking out after me.

[Harker]

39. That's really beautiful...

on several levels.

[customerserviceguy]

42. Yes

and one of them was being retired. It's nice to have a windfall when you're no longer working.

[Cartoonist]

36. I won a contest I forgot I entered.

I think a year went by when I received a third place prize of a Beatles litho. I still have it.

[virgogal]

37. Yes,2 Red Sox tickets,great seats......gave them to a son.

[Harker]

38. Yes, twice...

not counting fantasy football league championships, of which I have many.

When I was six (1965), I won a chocolate cake in a cakewalk. I don't mean that it was easy, I mean I was standing on the right number taped to the floor when the music stopped.

A couple of days ago, I won the multi-state district contest for most Reese's pumpkins and Christmas trees sold over a three month period. My prize was a $25 gift card to my place of employment. It was a cakewalk, really... not once did I suggest a customer might like to buy one. I just stood there, and rang them up. Being in a busy store located in a chocolate fixated town carried me to the crown.

[Dr Vegas]

43. I enjoy entering Internet contests.

Tip one, set up a separate email address for entries.
I've won many books from GoodReads.com
There are sites that you can explore and choose what you like to enter.
Try http://www.online-sweepstakes.com and https://www.sweepsadvantage.com.
For bigger value prizes you will be asked to fill out a Tax Form.

[csziggy]

44. Only things I worked hard on

And mostly second place.

I've won a number of prizes for needlework both at the regional fair and at national seminars. My horses have won Championships and Reserve World Championships. Won the presidency of my needlework group for several years - though that was more being conscripted and not by choice.

I don't join contests or games that are won by chance, so I have won nothing like that. Once or twice I've bought raffle tickets from good causes, never won those.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

45. I won $1,500 in a state lottery once.

Sounds nice, right? Problem was, I confused the game I played with another game they offer. That game paid $1.5M for getting five of six numbers correct. The game I played only paid $1,500 for that outcome. I spent a good 30 minutes fantasizing how my life was going to change (early retirement!) only to come crashing back to reality.

[mysteryowl]

46. Oh No!

[Dagstead Bumwood]

47. Yeah, people kept telling me I should be happy

about the $1,500. I explained again and again that your perspective changes drastically when you think you've won one thousand times that much only to have the rug pulled out from underneath you. Just kinda pissed me off. At the time, of course

[Skittles]

49. playing bingo with my grandmother

I won some coal!

[madamesilverspurs]

50. A zebra.

Really. Dad took us to a Denver Bears baseball game and they had a drawing for prizes. They called my number and my prize was a stuffed zebra. Quite a thrill for a six-year-old!


.

[applegrove]

51. I won a fruit cake at a highland dancing competition when i was 8. I thought

CAKE!!! GREAT!!. and then it turned out to be fruitcake.

I won a hotel room for a night in the city i lived in. I gave it to my boss.

I won most valuable player for the White Team, in the high school lunch time house league, when i was in grade 9. Go white team!!!

[captain queeg]

52. I won $72 at the race track the one and only time I went

Went with in in laws and my father in-law gave me two bucks to bet (I wasn’t going to waste my own money). I won the thing where you choose #1 and #2, don’t remember the name for it.

[blaze]

109. Hahaha!!! You sound like me!

The one and only time I went to the race track, I chose #1, #2 and #3. I had no idea and the gal standing next to me asked me why I wasn't jumping up and down and screaming!

I now know it's called a trifecta. No idea what a 1+2 pick is called.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

53. Yes, mostly as a kid.

Mostly athletic trophies and ribbons as a boy.

Academic scholarships while in college.

It’s been mostly “losing” since those days. I may not be ruthless enough to ever be “successful” in the business world, a relationship that’s seemingly necessary to just keep myself alive.

I feel like a winner whenever I get to enjoy the things that personally interest me, however. Competition with others has never been a major source of happiness for me, anyway. Autonomy is far more important, and I’ll also never sacrifice the freedom of others to help achieve it for myself.

Edit: In regard to games of chance, I’ve won some very minor things at raffles.

Story: A newer employee at one of my recent workplaces won a large HDTV during the company Christmas raffle. He always looked miserable during his few days working there, and he still looked unhappy as the rest of us applauded his luck at the Christmas dinner. Then he picked up the large TV and carried it to his car, presumably to take it home at the end of his shift. He instead drove away immediately and never returned. Lol!

[Kablooie]

54. My daughter won...

Grand prize in a Mc Donald’s game, a Sonic 3 video game - she was 12
Grand prize at Disneyland graduating party - a motor scooter
Grand prize at 7 Eleven, - a Wii video game machine.

I keep,encouraging her to try the lottery but she doesn't want to

[TreadSoftly]

55. little 3" tv and bigger 5" TV

At a computing conference I won a small battery television, maybe 3" screen (back in low-definition days). My dad loved that little device because he was always waiting for my mother and he enjoyed the TV broadcasts.

Later I won another low-def TV -- this one around 5" -- which I kept at work (I worked overnight a lot for the computers). When 9/11 happened, I was out sick and my co-workers used this set to find out what was happening.

I suppose I am best at winning useful electronics for other people! Just another talent.

[Rollo]

56. I won a car in a raffle... still have it...

[mr_lebowski]

57. Every 4 hours at the California Grand Casino there's a 'high hand' bonus ...

Whoever has had the highest hand (both hole cards must play) at all the hold 'em tables on the floor in the 4 hour period gets $100 ... last time I was playing there with my little bro over Xmas I pulled a King High straight flush in the first hour ... and it held up the rest of the time, which you'd expect with the 2nd highest hand possible in Poker

I've also been part of bad-beat table jackpots where everyone at the table shares like 25% of the jackpot, those have been around $400 both the two times I've been in 'em. Been awhile for those.

I've also gotten two Royal Flushes playing hold 'em, those came with immediate cash prizes just for getting them, one was 50 and the other was 200 iirc.

I also took 1st place in my fantasy football league this last season ... that was good for $900 I split with my little bro cause he and I agreed to split whatever we won ... and we came in 1st and 2nd.

[WestLosAngelesGal]

58. Really random things

A Grecian urn in a raffle ticket drawing at a Greek festival, honorable mention for a poem I wrote, a trifecta at a racetrack when I bet wrong at the ticket window, a set of glassware for setting the most telephone appts in a month for a vacuum cleaner company, a handful of employee awards for work performance, a weekend in a fancy casita at a desert resort in a raffle drawing, some cool Tupperware at a party where they were selling it. (edit) Also, a few bingo pots at a trailer park. I have won a lot of auctions on eBay, haha.

[wnylib]

59. Didn't think I had any winnings

when I saw the thread title, but as I read through the posts, a few came to mind. Not big ones, but appreciated just the same.

Bicycle race in my category when I was 8. Local spelling bee finalist from my school when I was 10. Did not make it to state level.

$80 at race track when my boss hosted my husband and me for dinner there. First and last horse bet I ever made.

A few scratch-off lottery tickets, maximum $50.

Two small scholarships in college that I had not applied for, based on academic standing.

A Thanksgiving turkey in a target shooting contest at a sportsman club my husband belonged to. I had never fired a shotgun before (or since) but hubby and his brothers challenged me to enter. Had to borrow one of their shotguns and none of them advised me on the difference between guages. So I chose the12 guage, thinking the lower number would be easier for me to handle. The kickback literally knocked me to the ground while hubby and his bros slapped each other on the back laughing -- until the targets were examined and I took first place. They did not know that I am farsighted and have good eye-hand coordination.

Raffles - I consider them donations to causes since i have only won one in my life - a basket with sample size cosmetics and lotions. Liked one of the lotions and bought a large size.

[mitch96]

60. Yup, a long life of good health and good friends.......

Other than that, no... If I gamble I loose. might as well throw the money out the window
No door prizes etc.. My aunt on the other hand won $250,000 once in the lotto..

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[Harker]

71. You might have won the best prize of all.

My cake was pretty good, though.

[dawg day]

61. I won a tv once.

It was one of those tiny ones. I was so excited. I thought it would be the beginning of a long run of good luck. Nope.

[Paladin]

62. A $700 fly rod, from a Denver-area fishing shop.

Sweet piece of trout-stalking equipment.

Passed it on to a friend after I moved to another location.

[Freddie]

63. 2nd prize in a poetry contest in grade school

Can’t remember what the actual prize was, probably just a ribbon.
A set of bath towels and a flash camera (this was a long time ago) in a United Way raffle at ex-job.
Employee of the Month at said ex-job, right after the new owners took over and made my life so miserable I jumped ship after 20 years there. The prize was a good parking space for a month.
$20 on a $2 lottery ticket (whee!)
DH won a George Foreman Grill at his work.

[Fla Dem]

64. Yes, $5,000 on a lottery game. But had to split it with a friend.

It was one of those, way back when, about late 1980, was living outside of Philly. Game was you had to collect some sequence of letter to spell out a word. Maybe it was Merry Christmas. Well a friend and I would buy the tickets and pool the results. Eventually we had all the letters but one. Finally we purchased a ticket that had the final letter.

So, after splitting the winnings and taxes, probably netted about $2000.

[Doc_Technical]

65. I also won a cake at a cakewalk,

it was angel food with chocolate frosting, I was 11 years old.

I also "won" the draft lottery (#63). This was the final encouragement
I needed to join the Air Force.

I won $1,200 in the California Lottery in 1995.

[Harker]

70. Mine was a chocolate frosted chocolate cake.

It was the chintzy gold astronaut figure stuck on top that made me pick it, though.

[seaglass]

66. I won two tickets on TWA wherever they flew. Went to Germany for the Oktoberfest,

along with traveling through France, Austria and Switzerland.

Won 6 tickets on AA and took my husband to be, my brother, my mom and 2 of her friends to Jamaica for a week.

Won 1 ticket on NW first class to London.

Won a SNES (Nintendo console) but gave it back as I had just bought one.

Won 2 tickets to Sesame Street Live.

That's it I think.

[liberaltrucker]

67. Won $500 aboard a charter flight to Vegas

It stayed in Vegas.

[MissMillie]

68. $400 on a scratch ticket

and front row tickets to a Yes concert, the one that was filmed for Songs from Tsongas.

[benld74]

69. Thinking back yeah,,,

Red Wagon from an IGA in my hometown when I was around 10


Worked in a grocer store at the time late '70's
A $125.00 gift certificate to stores in a neighboring town. Given to winner of a local car dealership around Xmas back in 1977.

Contestants had to guess to total cost of the groceries contained in a 1977 Chevy Caprice station wagon. Bags of groceries on every seat, floor board, rear area of wagon.

My guess was $79.54. Actual was $79.32.

I gave the certificate to my mom for Xmas. She had a blast at the stores that year.

Today, I think the amount is the same station wagon would be around $479.00

[kairos12]

72. I won the

hand of my wife. Best day ever!

[DFW]

74. Did I ever!!! Only the biggest jackpot there is.

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Source? Mother Nature? Lady Luck? Pure chance? Take your pick.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

87. WONDERFUL series of photos.

Thank you for posting.

It looks like you've had a great life.

[DFW]

89. Plenty of obstacles along the way

But the company has been pretty spectacular, no two ways about it.

[Ohiya]

91. Ssme thoughts

If you counted your blessings at night, you wouldn't have time to sleep!

[DFW]

108. They are not great in number

They ARE great in intensity.

[mokawanis]

75. When I was a kid I won a lamp that looked like a bottle of 7-Up

I was so happy. thought I had won something really valuable.

[TexasBushwhacker]

76. I won a yogurt maker from a health food store

My brother got 5 out of 6 numbers in the state lottery once. He won about $1500, but just one more number...

[relayerbob]

77. I'm alive and well after two heart attacks

and losing my late wife to cancer.

Have a new wife and a new life in my 60s, Have visited 35 of our states, have a bunch of patents, and a lifetime of experiences, and yes, won various trinkets from time to time.

So, yeah, won a boat load, and I'm grateful for it!



Nice to have have a positive post here. Thanks!

[mercuryblues]

78. I recently won

$1,000 on a slot machine. Of course I have probably put twice as much in it over the years.

I know nothing about football pools and how they work. When I worked at a sports bar, I would win the weekly pool, a lot. Usually 50 - 100.

[Beartracks]

79. A model HO scale boxcar kit, a pinewood derby, uh...

... the love of my spouse, and a signed print of a painting that we've had hanging prominently in our various homes over the years.

There may be a couple more odds and ends around here, too.

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[TexasBushwhacker]

80. I forgot one! I won an autographed guitar at a concert once

It was at a Goo Goo Dolls concert in LA in 2003. I was there with a bunch of friends. The band donated it to be raffled for some folks who were raising money for some noble cause. Anyway, I bought a ticket and won the damn thing.

[DFW]

83. I saw those guys in 2008!

Howard Dean had invited them to play at the DNC convention that nominated Obama in Denver in 2008.

They were LOUD!

[TexasBushwhacker]

90. They were never shy about their politics

They played at a GOTV rally for Al Gore in 2000. They used to ask fans to bring canned food to their concerts that would go to the local food bank. They had a show scheduled right after Hurricane Harvey and easily could have canceled it, but instead they dropped the ticket price to $20 for anyone that brought a non-perishable item to donate. They also donated all their merchandise proceeds to the Houston Food Bank.

[DFW]

81. Oh, yes, and one prize I couldn't ever collect on.

It was in 2005, and a friend in the Bay Area was helping out in a raffle for a children's hospital in Oakland, CA, a place I have never been. But it was for a good cause, so I, said sure I'll buy $50 worth of tickets.

Much to my amazement, I won the grand prize, a week in Hawaii, with air fare from Oakland. I had no time to go to Oakland that year, much less sneak off to Hawaii for a week. Then I asked the hospital if they could transfer the name of the winner to a Dutch friend who was going to be in San Francisco that summer. They don't pay taxes on lottery winnings in Holland (or didn't at the time), and my friends would never have seen Hawaii otherwise.

The hospital said they could do it. So, my friend and his wife got to go to Hawaii, and I got to help out a children's hospital to the tune of $50. Seems a little disproportionate, but everyone seemed happy, so why not?

[Sneederbunk]

82. Got a high number on the 1970 Draft Lottery.

[Cary]

84. I was born.

That worked out well for me.

[lettucebe]

85. I won $1000 worth of leather goods from Levenger.com

Used to get their catalog. Entered an online thing. When Ii got an email I assumed it was spam, but read it more closely and nope, it was legit. Got a really nice leather brief case, leather eyeglass case and leather folio. It was awesome. This was long ago, early 2000's.

[Mister Ed]

86. I won on Jeopardy.

Only once. But it was an interesting experience.

[wcmagumba]

88. Ugliest pet contest...

for my pet horned frog, as a kid in our small town holiday festivities (don't remember which holiday)...I think I got free ice cream from the local shop...I won a nice banjo/guitar from a music web site a few years ago, I play a bit but sold it later as I had too many instruments...

[happybird]

93. Concert tickets off the radio by being "Caller Number 10" (or whatever it was)

For the Who at RFK in 1989.

I once won $50 on a scratch off ticket. My biggest lottery win, ever.

[SCantiGOP]

94. I won the first draft lottery in 1970

Unfortunately, I was the prize

Actually, I was #3, but everybody who was under about 240 that year got drafted.

I had a college deferment, and the draft ended on January 1 of my Senior Year, so I didn't have to move to Canada and I hate cold weather.

[samnsara]

104. i had friends families whisk them off to Canada!

[SCantiGOP]

105. There were three choices

Army, Canada or jail.

Actually, there was a fourth if you were middle class white or above, which was to find some way out, usually a friend of the family doctor who would give you a diagnosis of asthma or something like............bone spurs.

My older brother was a Green Beret Captain in Vietnam, and my best friend from elementary school days had been killed by a land mine near the end of my Freshman year, so I did not intend to go in any event.

[Backseat Driver]

95. A year's supply of M&Ms - one hot August

I rec'd a notice from the PO that a package could not be delivered and needed to be picked up. I had never ordered anything, so went to pick up the curious package. It turned out to be a very large, heavy package without a return address, so I opened it at the PO. Lo and behold, at the top of the package was a letter indicating I had somehow won a year's supply of M&Ms. It was to be 90 degrees that day, so I took it back to work and had to haul it inside so it wouldn't melt in the car, and then back out to the car at end of business. Seems my SIL had submitted my entry to what "new" color Mars should make, and my submission was chosen as a Grand Prize winner. LOL - 365 little packages of M&Ms...gave away a bunch to co-workers, friends, and still had plenty for the family. LOL!

Twice got a small jackpot on a slot - hand pay minus taxes, LOL!

[lastlib]

96. fifth grade, I won a school talent/variety contest....

...for reciting a couple of Bill Cosby comedy bits.

College freshman year, I won a pizza for best freshman English research paper, out of nearly 400 frosh students.
Nine years ago, I was on a company team in a corporate spelling bee (a fundraiser for a local adult literacy program) that took second place. The winning team included the father of two national Scripps Spelling Bee winners. (His older daughter won that same year, and his younger daughter won five years later, I think.)

[Midwestern Democrat]

100. I'm in the same boat - I've won things that required effort/achievement on my part, but I've never

won anything of consequence purely due to pure chance/dumb luck - i.e. simply putting my name in a drawing and winning a big prize just because I had the pure dumb luck that my name was the one that was randomly drawn. Of course, this is at least partly due to the fact that I disdain games of chance - I never gamble or go to casinos, I don't buy lottery tickets, and I buy raffle tickets at fundraisers solely for the purpose of making a charitable contribution - I have no expectation or any real desire to actually win the prize.

[lastlib]

115. I never play games of chance either--already been hit by lightning once, so.....

...not likely to happen again. Besides, I was enough of a math student to understand the lottery odds. I work too hard for it to throw it away.

[Bayard]

97. Oh, yeah.....

Couple friends and I camped out at the gates of Churchill Downs in 1980 the night before the Derby to get in early to the infield on the rail. I won about $100 on the filly, Genuine Risk.

Got through on a call in a radio contest once, where they give you a subject, and for each minute you could talk about it, on air, without stumbling, you got $20. I made about $50.

Won a number of classes at dressage shows when I was still competing. Won some age group awards when i was still running races, VERY long ago now.

Won a couple spelling bee's in grade school (always the smart ass!)

Won my life back after moving back to KY from CA.

[NNadir]

98. When I was 13, I won two weeks in a boy scout camp in an essay contest.

I actually didn't like the prize all that much.

[MrsMatt]

99. a piece of hand luggage at an elementary school fundraising drawing,

a cake at a cake walk, a piece of jewelry at a jewelry store drawing, and two gift cards ($10) at holiday parties at work (been there 20 years).

Did not inherit my grandmother's knack for winning stuff - she got furniture, appliances and lots of money (bingo fiend).

[Turbineguy]

101. A free cremation.

I haven't gotten around to using it.

[dhol82]

102. I once won a full day at a spa. Worth about $300

It was wonderful!
Had a facial, a massage, salt scrub, etc.
Only thing I didn’t like was some sort of heat wrap. Found out I don’t like being tied up.

[samnsara]

103. in 1995 i won a pair of Grateful Treads sandals...

.. I still have them. They leave a skeletal foot print...and ive won some other smaller things..

[kimbutgar]

106. I won bingo several times last time I was on a cruise

[MrScorpio]

107. Yeah, I've won some art contests and the odd (small) lottery prize.

[CrispyQ]

110. When I was a kid I won more Halloween costume contests than any kid I know.

My mother was a seamstress and her best friend was an artist.

[AncientGeezer]

111. Several times...

[Doreen]

112. I won some ribbons in some horse shows.

A dinner for 2 for answering a question on the radio.

Some money here and there at the casino.

A question in Sunday school when I was 8 ( weird story.)

There are other things I have won but they were so insignificant I really do not remember what I won or why I won.

[murielm99]

113. I participate in a lot of

raffles and drawings for Democratic party events. I have won several times. Sometimes the prizes have been a couple thousand dollars.

I put all the money in savings. After doing that, and saving steadily from other sources, we were able to get new siding for our house.

[Mersky]

114. Won a baby dance contest when I was 2

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Was at the Coliseum in south Austin for some radio station. The yellow t-shirt prize was my favorite night gown for years (basically disintegrated from overuse). My folks got a dinner and some cash.

Lol, basically, I peaked before I could speak in complete sentences.

[Polybius]

116. Everyone has won something, if you are counting the little things

I mean, who hasn't gone to a fair and won a fish or small prize?

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

117. We were flat broke for another week

I had just enough to get a gallon of milk for my 3 kids. When she gave me my change, I found I had one dollar left. I bought a scratch off. Got to the car, scratched it and won 30 bucks. Went on to the grocery store and cashed it in and bought a few more groceries plus one more scratch off. 30 bucks again. Elated, I bought one more which won 20, then I stopped.

[captain queeg]

119. Very smart. Few people would stop.

I just remembered another incident. I was sitting at the bar at a tavern. They used to have the boxes on the bar that had little tear open tickets with different amounts of possible winnings up to $100. They also listed how many of each denomination were in the stack and would keep track of which ones had paid out with a magic marker. I was sitting there a little bored and looked and realized there were more prizes to pay out than there were tickets left. I didn’t know the exact number of tickets but there was something like 3000 in an initial batch. I figured out about how many were left (each ticket was a quarter I think) and realized I couldn’t lose if I bought them all so started having the bar keep bringing me quarters and laid claim to the device till I’d cleaned it out. I probably stopped at the point where I’d gotten all the listed prizes; $5 and up. Won close to $50 and tipped the bar keeper $5.

[Niagara]

118. I was active in 4-H for years

I won several grand champion, reserve grand champion, and assorted colored ribbons. I have no idea where my ribbons are now, but I still have my 4-H trophies.