Ever win something from a raffle drawing?
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Nothing exciting.
At a conference I won a leather suitcase filled with legal books I don't use, some hideous sunglasses, flip flops and other completely random things.
I've won gift certificates to restaurants I never ended up going to in charity raffles.
I won a copy of the last NCAA football game made by EA sports signed by Justin Blackmon, Fred biletnikoff, the coach of OSU, the former badgers coach that was the speaker at the award ceremony and a couple random people.
Oh and a bottle of wine which I did enjoy.
So yeah, nothing to get excited about.
At a conference I won a leather suitcase filled with legal books I don't use, some hideous sunglasses, flip flops and other completely random things.
I've won gift certificates to restaurants I never ended up going to in charity raffles.
I won a copy of the last NCAA football game made by EA sports signed by Justin Blackmon, Fred biletnikoff, the coach of OSU, the former badgers coach that was the speaker at the award ceremony and a couple random people.
Oh and a bottle of wine which I did enjoy.
So yeah, nothing to get excited about.
I won my first car in a drawing.
The year was 1989 and the car was a 1972 Chevy Impala.
The drawing was held at a used car lot. They were giving away three used cars - the other two were equally as old. There were no age restrictions or limitations on how many times you could enter so, being a normal 15-year old boy, I filled out maybe 200 entry forms. There were only a couple of hundred people there for the drawing, so my odds were pretty good. I won the second car they gave away. When they drew for the third, the guy took out a form, shook his head, then picked again, so it's possible that I may have been picked that time as well.
My mom was in disbelief - not because I won a fabulous prize, but because we now had to find a way to get it home - so my uncle had to pick up my dad to bring him up there to drive the other car home. This became my first car. It was actually the best of the three that they gave away - I believe it was the only one that was able to be driven away under its' own power.
It was perhaps the largest car ever built. I could lay down flat in the back seat, which proved helpful. It had a large 350 v8 motor, which was still pretty quick, despite the car weighing the same as a WWII battleship. And it ran on regular gas (at a time when regular gas was no longer sold), so I had to have bottles of lead additive on-hand for every time that I filled up the gas tank.
After graduating high school, I sold the car for $500 to a buddy's sister who immediately put oil where the transmission fluid went, or vice versa, and killed it.
Edited to add a couple of pictures of a 1972 Impala for reference.
The coolest feature was the back window, which was v-shaped:
The year was 1989 and the car was a 1972 Chevy Impala.
The drawing was held at a used car lot. They were giving away three used cars - the other two were equally as old. There were no age restrictions or limitations on how many times you could enter so, being a normal 15-year old boy, I filled out maybe 200 entry forms. There were only a couple of hundred people there for the drawing, so my odds were pretty good. I won the second car they gave away. When they drew for the third, the guy took out a form, shook his head, then picked again, so it's possible that I may have been picked that time as well.
My mom was in disbelief - not because I won a fabulous prize, but because we now had to find a way to get it home - so my uncle had to pick up my dad to bring him up there to drive the other car home. This became my first car. It was actually the best of the three that they gave away - I believe it was the only one that was able to be driven away under its' own power.
It was perhaps the largest car ever built. I could lay down flat in the back seat, which proved helpful. It had a large 350 v8 motor, which was still pretty quick, despite the car weighing the same as a WWII battleship. And it ran on regular gas (at a time when regular gas was no longer sold), so I had to have bottles of lead additive on-hand for every time that I filled up the gas tank.
After graduating high school, I sold the car for $500 to a buddy's sister who immediately put oil where the transmission fluid went, or vice versa, and killed it.
Edited to add a couple of pictures of a 1972 Impala for reference.
The coolest feature was the back window, which was v-shaped:
I won a 5lbs candy bar in 5th grade.
I ate it all in one night
I ate it all in one night
My freshman year in college I went to a small school in Georgia to play soccer. Early in the school year, they wired the dorms for some new thing called "cable television" (yeah, I'm old, bite me). The day they activated everything they had some presentation in the school gym; I won the drawing for a converter box that gave me full access to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and all of the other channels that were available way back then. So my dorm room was the only one that the full-blown service, which was sweetly hooked up to an 11 inch, black & white RCA.
It was supposed to be for two months, but they didn't get any info from me. I kept the thing for the whole school year; on the last day of school I brought it back to their local office. They had no idea who I was & couldn't understand why I was there. I finally explained to them how I got the box; at first the girl told me that I owed them for a year's service & might need to pay a cancelation fee. I laughed & said "you don't even know my name, how are you going to make me pay you?"
So yeah, I stole a year's worth of free cable yet I grew up to be a semi-productive member of society.
It was supposed to be for two months, but they didn't get any info from me. I kept the thing for the whole school year; on the last day of school I brought it back to their local office. They had no idea who I was & couldn't understand why I was there. I finally explained to them how I got the box; at first the girl told me that I owed them for a year's service & might need to pay a cancelation fee. I laughed & said "you don't even know my name, how are you going to make me pay you?"
So yeah, I stole a year's worth of free cable yet I grew up to be a semi-productive member of society.
Yep. 1999. Reverse raffle. Big Brothers Big Sisters event. Won a then new Harley Softail fully customized bike with other two friends. We had bought multiple tickets throughout the raffle process and finally won with a sizable amount of money invested in those tickets, but, relatively speaking, it was still a fantastic deal.
One of those friends, who was a wealthy primary sponsor and FSU grad, decided in an alcohol induced moment of generosity, to get up on stage and donate the bike back to BBBS to be immediately actioned to the highest bidder. The entire room roared with approval.
I was also on that stage straddling the bike with one of the big sisters to whom I had promised the first ride. She rode off on the bike with the highest bidder. I went home broke, drunk and alone.
Won a rifle. Thing is I don't hunt but the raffle is put on every year by a friend's hunting club and I but tickets to support them. It was sold before it ever had a chance to get to me. Made a decent buck on the deal.
Won a gift certificate to a favorite store in 10th grade. Won a TV at the Christmas office party.
I won a free year of Warchant the last time Dot Com came to speak to the Seminole Club of Greater Orlando.
When I was a child, my dad was president of a civic organization that had a raffle. I don't think he bought many tickets, but we won so many of the prizes that it looked rigged and was embarrassing.
I've won lots of raffles, three in the last year. Last month I won around $60 in a 50/50 raffle.
I've won lots of raffles, three in the last year. Last month I won around $60 in a 50/50 raffle.
1:
I was in the OR of one of my hospital accounts and over the last few months they had been trying to sell me a $5 raffle ticket for a 42"flat screen. I had successfully avoided being fleased by these nurses for months. With the "sorry I dont have my wallet in my scrubs" line. Well the manager caught me coming out of the cafeteria on the day of the raffle. I bought 2 tickets. Left the hospital at about 345 the raffle was that day at 4. I got a ca at about 4:03. I won the TV. I immediately went back to pick it up. Those nurses were giving me the harriest of hairy eyebas when I went back to pick it up. I still have it mounted on my wall in my bedroom.
2:
I went to world of beer with PolpandBoogers for a Dogfish Head 120 IPA flight tasting of all the 120 minute IPA for the years 2011 - 2015. The raffle prize was a six pack of one each of the '15, '14, '13, '12 and 2 of the '11s.
Pretty awesome flight of very rare impossible to buy beer. I told poop I wouldn't drink it without him. We will probably break into it one of the early FSU games this season.
I was in the OR of one of my hospital accounts and over the last few months they had been trying to sell me a $5 raffle ticket for a 42"flat screen. I had successfully avoided being fleased by these nurses for months. With the "sorry I dont have my wallet in my scrubs" line. Well the manager caught me coming out of the cafeteria on the day of the raffle. I bought 2 tickets. Left the hospital at about 345 the raffle was that day at 4. I got a ca at about 4:03. I won the TV. I immediately went back to pick it up. Those nurses were giving me the harriest of hairy eyebas when I went back to pick it up. I still have it mounted on my wall in my bedroom.
2:
I went to world of beer with PolpandBoogers for a Dogfish Head 120 IPA flight tasting of all the 120 minute IPA for the years 2011 - 2015. The raffle prize was a six pack of one each of the '15, '14, '13, '12 and 2 of the '11s.
Pretty awesome flight of very rare impossible to buy beer. I told poop I wouldn't drink it without him. We will probably break into it one of the early FSU games this season.
A few small things - a big Christmas stocking full of cheap toys that a local grocery store raffled off when I was a kid; a few gift cards here and there.
My wife has won the grand prize at her company Christmas party two of the last three years. $1,000 cash one year and an iPad the other.
My wife has won the grand prize at her company Christmas party two of the last three years. $1,000 cash one year and an iPad the other.
a few years back, my dad and I threw in $10 each for a Catholic Charities golf tournament ball drop - my father in law mentioned it as he was walking out the door from a visit and we said "uh yea sure here's 20 bucks, whatever".
Each ball was $20 and at the end of the tournament (in Orlando somewhere) they dropped all the balls from a helicopter towards the practice range over a target hole. Whichever ball was closest to the hole won $10,000. Our ball (number 461 - I still remember it) was the only one to drop in the actual hole. Pops and I split 10k on a 20 dollar investment. After taxes it ended up being just under 4k each, but still. Pretty awesome. It remains to this day the only thing I have ever won. I don't even get 3 of 6 numbers on the Powerball.
Each ball was $20 and at the end of the tournament (in Orlando somewhere) they dropped all the balls from a helicopter towards the practice range over a target hole. Whichever ball was closest to the hole won $10,000. Our ball (number 461 - I still remember it) was the only one to drop in the actual hole. Pops and I split 10k on a 20 dollar investment. After taxes it ended up being just under 4k each, but still. Pretty awesome. It remains to this day the only thing I have ever won. I don't even get 3 of 6 numbers on the Powerball.
Three things...
1) When I was a kid, my family won an Atari at a school charity function. That was a big freaking deal.
2) About 20 years ago I filled out a raffle card at the Sonny's in Monroe, NC and won first place...a 13" TV. I actually ended up using it quite a lot (a few times a year) for the next ten years or so when needing to pull in an extra TV, but eventually it was pretty obsolete. I think I still have it in a closet somewhere.
3) About ten years ago I went to a CompUSA for a Black Friday (I think it was midnight) for a $99 desktop. Got their early, was the first in line. Waited until midnight, when they announced that there were only two, and they'd be raffling them off among all the people that had eventually lined up at midnight, and started passing out tickets. I lost my mind and was threatening legal action at the customer service desk when they called my number, and I just walked away midsentence. Part of me thinks that they fixed it just to get out of dealing with me, but it all happened so quickly I doubt they could have managed it. So I "won" the right to buy a computer. That was my last Black Friday experience I think.
1) When I was a kid, my family won an Atari at a school charity function. That was a big freaking deal.
2) About 20 years ago I filled out a raffle card at the Sonny's in Monroe, NC and won first place...a 13" TV. I actually ended up using it quite a lot (a few times a year) for the next ten years or so when needing to pull in an extra TV, but eventually it was pretty obsolete. I think I still have it in a closet somewhere.
3) About ten years ago I went to a CompUSA for a Black Friday (I think it was midnight) for a $99 desktop. Got their early, was the first in line. Waited until midnight, when they announced that there were only two, and they'd be raffling them off among all the people that had eventually lined up at midnight, and started passing out tickets. I lost my mind and was threatening legal action at the customer service desk when they called my number, and I just walked away midsentence. Part of me thinks that they fixed it just to get out of dealing with me, but it all happened so quickly I doubt they could have managed it. So I "won" the right to buy a computer. That was my last Black Friday experience I think.
not much...
Once at a fraternity banquet as a visiting alumnus I bought a ticket to the "liquor basket." they were numbered tickets and when they came out to pull the winning ticket, they said the winner is... and said my name. I didn't think a whole lot of it at the time, but later I realized they assumed that I, lightweight drinker that I'd always been, probably wouldn't have much use for the basket. They probably thought I'd just hand it back to them and say go ahead and open it and have one on me. I can still remember their looks of disappontment and betrayal.
I won an electric cork remover at an FSU booster club event. Probably signing day or something.
Once at a fraternity banquet as a visiting alumnus I bought a ticket to the "liquor basket." they were numbered tickets and when they came out to pull the winning ticket, they said the winner is... and said my name. I didn't think a whole lot of it at the time, but later I realized they assumed that I, lightweight drinker that I'd always been, probably wouldn't have much use for the basket. They probably thought I'd just hand it back to them and say go ahead and open it and have one on me. I can still remember their looks of disappontment and betrayal.
I won an electric cork remover at an FSU booster club event. Probably signing day or something.
I've won a few meals or happy hours at restaurants by dropping my business card in a bowl. Nothing more than that though.
I won a garage door opener when I was in high school. My parents didn't have a garage either, so we sold it to a contractor and I got a hundred or so bucks out of the deal.
I've won a bunch of stuff, most recently a PhD pin at a conference I was at in April. I've won a backpack, movie tickets, $250 in the lottery once. Other stuff I'm sure I can't remember.
