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Cha-Ching! 💰

JFD12 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:04:10 GMT

Would anyone care, or dare, to share ... the biggest prize you've ever won? Be it from a raffle/drawing, a scratch ticket, whatever it may be.

I'm thinking my biggest win was from a football square, many years ago. My team was in the Super Bowl, and we lost. BUT, with that last quarter score, I won $2500! 🥳💰

I guess I was both happy and sad that night! 🤷‍♀️

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gidgetgh — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:08:53 GMT

I won a large orange stuffed donkey in the 5th grade from a church raffle.
How is that for a prize, LOL. That thing was huge.

Oh wait, years ago, much to the shock of my co-workers, I won our NCAA playoff basketball pool. I think I won $250.

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:08:51 GMT

I won a little over $500 while playing a progressive quarter slot machine at a casino. I turned 75 cents into $500.00.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:14:33 GMT

When I was in high school, I won a couple of tickets on a radio call in quiz, but the catch was that I had to drive to the station to pick them up, which was impossible for me. A few kids that day said they heard me on the radio, though, so that was cool.

I think I won around $80 at a casino once, but that only recouped what I spent. That's when I said it was time to go home.

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SloopJohnB — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:56:08 GMT

Years ago won a color TV in our church carnival raffle. One of those where "you need not be present to win.". 📺

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homedecor1 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:19:57 GMT

I won a Cadillac at a casino and then a mustang 6 months later in a drawing. I loved Atlantic City and went quite often when I lived there. I also won a 2 week trip on a cruise. Those were the fun days of gambling.

Haven't been to a casino in years because in FL they're all indian tribes and the chances of winning are slim and none!

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JFD12 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:23:46 GMT

@homedecor1 Wow! That's pretty impressive!! And here I am thinking that an orange stuffed donkey was pretty cool!! 😊🤓 😂

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SharkE — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:23:46 GMT

Reminds me of Oprah when she would scream "You've won a car, you've won a car". Some of them I read couldn't afford to pay the tax due and had to sell 'em that was sad.

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Snowpuppy — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:30:54 GMT

Spouses of our local firefighters held a fundraiser for equipment the twp. couldn't afford to buy.

I won a nice holiday gift box from local merchants worth about $150 for my $5 in raffle tickets.

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shoesnbags — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:50:56 GMT

When my kids were in elementary school, there was a drawing from all of the names of mothers who had not missed a single Mother's Club monthly meeting that year. It was announced in Sept. to encourage attendance at the meetings. The prize was free tuition for one child and I won. I think it was about $800 dollars, if I remember correctly.

Then one year I received a notice along with my MasterCard bill saying that each purchase in the month of December would equal one entry in a prize drawing to be held in January. I didn't pay much attention and forgot all about it, but in Jan. I received word that I had won $500.

Probably better than either of those was when I won a front row ticket to a Beatles concert in a radio station drawing. To 15 year old, that was priceless.

I don't do casinos - drawings seem to be the only thing I'm lucky with.

Edited to say that I was 15, not 16.

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JFD12 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:50:51 GMT

@shoesnbags @Those are pretty awesome prizes!! But.. a Beatles concert???!!! Please tell me more!! 🎶🎼

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Desert Lily — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:58:40 GMT

As a Buyer in my mid-20's, my name was picked from a fish bowl at a trade show. I won a 2-week all expenses paid trip to Maui for two. Very nice.

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shoesnbags — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:06:44 GMT

@JFD12 wrote:
@shoesnbags @Those are pretty awesome prizes!! But.. a Beatles concert???!!! Please tell me more!! 🎶🎼

@JFD12

This was in 1964, when the Beatles visited New Orleans on a concert tour. A local radio station held a contest where the Beatles fans sent in postcards and they drew a card every few hours. You had 1 minute to call in if you heard your name. The station # was 690, so there were 69 seats. The concert was in a stadium, but these seats were two rows of folding chairs down on the field right in front of the stage.

I got the bright idea to decorate regular post cards with psychedelic designs using fluorescent markers to make our cards stand out from the others. (It was the 60s!) Four or five of us decorated LOTS of postcards and sent them in. Then we took turns listening to the radio so we wouldn't miss our names. It worked well, and three of us won seats to the concert. It was unforgettable.

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luvmyteddy4 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:23:36 GMT

It all started winning a huge pumpkin in grade school that I had to carry home on my head about 5 blocks.

I won 100.00 playing at the casino. My boss took me and gave me 50.00 cash so I came out ahead on that one.

I put my name in a drawing at a store Jones before it changed to Macy's and won 250.00 credit to buy any clothes I wanted. That was the best!

Also won at a work raffle for prizes at Christmas.

I guess I did alright!

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JFD12 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:25:09 GMT

@shoesnbags I love that story!!! How awesome for you and your friends! Just reading it gave me goosebumps! I can't imagine it back then, to see the Beatles in '64!! Lol... I wasn't born yet! 😂 I love the Beatles! And I'm happy for everyone who responded with all their great prizes!! 🥰

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Junker2327 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:49:47 GMT

A $250,000 diamond ring from a fundraiser drawing . SWEET

Junker

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homedecor1 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:15:41 GMT

@JFD12

I haven't won a thing since🤷‍♀️

I keep saying I'm gonna scratch a big winning lotto ticket and go on "my lottery dream house" - most I've won is $10 guess I'm not making that call...lol

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GenXmuse — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:30:46 GMT

I "won" a free candy bar coupon after buying twenty of them.

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Love my grandkids — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:38:22 GMT

@JFD12 This is small potatoes I guess but I spent most of my life in So.Cal. and when they first started the lottery, I went down to the corner 7-Elevan and bouth a $1 scratcher. I won $40! and went right to my local cross stitch shop and spent $12 on a new pair of embroidery scissors!

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JFD12 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:25:13 GMT

@Love my grandkidssmall potatoes, big potatoes... all good! I love potatoes! 🥔 I actually hold 2 passports... here, and my Irish, EU, passport! So happy that you won $40!! 🥰 And to @GenXmuse ... I am such a candy bar chocoholic .. my family makes fun of me!! 🍫