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Re: have you ever won anything

no

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Re: have you ever won anything

I won a tricycle from Uncle John’s Pancake House when I was about 6. I was on TV. I was famous. Don’t have it anymore sadly. 

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Re: have you ever won anything

I've won money in Vegas, playing the slots, poker machines, and blackjack. The largest amount was $5,000 on dollar slots. I won $3,000 on a  poker machine, and $2,000 at a blackjack table.

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Registered: ‎12-12-2010

Re: have you ever won anything

I attend a lot of Information Technology conferences for work & there are always vendors giving away prizes. A few years ago I won an iPad mini & use it daily. In fact I’m typing my response on it right now!

Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.
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Re: have you ever won anything

Years ago when I was living in Canada, I entered a nation-wide sweepstakes that their shopping channel had and I won the grand prize which was a collection of merchandise in various categories worth a total of $5,000.

 

About a year after that, my then-husband and I were attending a conference in Boston and we won a door prize which was two return airline tickets to anywhere Air Canada flew. We used them to take a small vacation in Florida because his sister and BIL had a condo there so we didn't have to pay for accommodations. 

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Registered: ‎03-13-2010

Re: have you ever won anything

I won a chicken (cooked) on a field trip when I was in elementary school.  And I won a pumpkin for Halloween when I was in 8th grade.  

 

As an adult, I won a gift basket at Bloomingdale's.  It had lots of great beauty products and a gift certificate for a photo session.

 

I won a lot of money at a casino in Aruba.  I honestly can't remember how much, but it was a decent enough amount that we had to lock it up in the hotel's safe.

 

And I won $500 after I did a survey on the back of a receipt.  I tell everyone now to do those surveys!

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Re: have you ever won anything

A teddy bear wearing a yellow rain slicker & hat. Something to do with Gorton's Seafood Products. Think I filled out something at the grocery store with one of those people that set up their little tasting stations and try to rope you in to give it a try.

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Registered: ‎09-16-2010

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l was in my last quarter of college before graduating. Mom and I were living on my Dad’s social security benefits and vocational rehabilitation was paying my college tuition. Mom had stomach cancer. I stopped in a local grocery store on the way to school and the lady at the register begged me to fill out a form. Being busy with everything totally forgot about the store thing. Several weeks later on a Saturday night received a call that I had won a certificate for $50 free groceries. I thought the call was a prank from the Church deacon that called every week. The store manager finally convinced me and I almost fainted. That was a huge Blessing! We really needed the food.I couldn’t work because of school and looking after Mom. I was 22 and in 1977. Sadly Mom died a few weeks later.  Went to the store and was told I had a time limit- how fast I could fill up a shopping cart . First went to the meat department and then filled up on sugar, flour and spices and can tuna, Mom could not believe how many bags of groceries that I had.The look on her face was priceless. Southern Bee 

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Re: have you ever won anything

$500 in a Super Bowl pool several years ago.

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Yes, surprisingly, for the first time in the last two years.  Won a Calaphon 2.5 quart pot from HSN. Love it!

 

And won the Cabot Cheese Outdoor contest........$125 in merchandise from Lodge Cookware and Bass Pro Shops................and a years worth of Cabot Cheese. The cheese was delivered in 4 shipments, 13 pounds of a variety of cheeses in each shipment.  The Bass Pro Shops stuff was really small junky items with their logo. The Lodge cookware was two small pans w/cookbook - donated those to charity.