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Who has won a high value prize?

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I've never one anything of any real value. I wonder how many Tugger's have one a prize worth a lot of money, and whether they kept it, sold it, gave it away, or whatever.
 
10 grand off a scratch ticket years ago. Oh yea, and I kept it !:cheer: :banana:
 
I won the Embassy "Snap Happy Contest." I won two beautiful ocean front rooms at the Hilton Waikola in Hawaii, $500.00 cash, 4 round trip airlines tickets to Kona, on the VIP list at the hotel, a $600.00 digital camera from Kodak, transportation in a Excursion limo to and from the airport! Needless to say we love Embassy and had a wonderful time in Hawaii!
 
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Won the drawing at Lawrence Welk

I won the drawing at Lawrence Welk about 5 or 6 years ago for a shopping spree. I can't remember if it was for $1,000 or $1,500 because my wife was the one that shopped. It was for our evaluation after a stay.
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Not too "big" but I won a radio drawing for a trip to Disney World for 4 with air and lodging. Of course, we are 5, so we had to buy one more air seat. And the car company was the cheapest, with a 2 hour wait during school holiday period when we went.
 
I won a cooking contest and the prize was a trip for two to Italy--included R/T airfare, hotel, rental car and some tours. They said it was worth $7,500--that was stretching it, but we had a great time!
 
Not me but my oldest son did! When he was about 10 yo he called in on Radio Disney and won some Pokemon stuff and a chance to be in the Grand Prize drawing for a 52 inch big screen TV, a new Nintendo something or other and more Pokemon stuff. Two weeks later they called him and told him he was the Grand Prize winner. The TV is still in his room ten years later! Wasn't a $10,000 scratch ticket and we had to pay tax on the MSRP which was about $1800 but, he's the only one so far!:cheer:
 
A few years back I won a trip for two to Boston, Massachusetts from Atlanta. It was sponsored by PBS's This Old House and Beringer Wines. I actually won it by entering online once at the Beringer website. My husband could not go so I took my best friend. One way up was one airline and back was another. Delta and Airtran. It was 4 days and three nights. They put us up at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel. They picked us up one day and took us out to Carlisle, Mass where they had renovated and furnished an old home. They had a big white tent set up next to the house. They had all the cast and crew there. They had wine and all types of food. When you toured the home you had to put these little blue paper booties on over your shoes. At the end they were filming so we got a nanosecond on tv! (PBS) We were in the end credits but if you blinked you missed us!! It was so very cold, it was the first week of March that year. They also gave me $1,000.00 spending money. We also had one free dinner in the Italian section of Boston. I think it was in the North End???? I remember snow piled up everywhere...some cars were buried...and also Fanuiel(???) Hall. It was the most I have ever won....I want to win a big lottery but it has not happened!
 
There's a message on my answering machine tonight. I won a fabulous cruise for 2 from Sundance vacations!! All I have to do is make an appointment with my spouse and pick up my vacation voucher. My hubby actually thinks this is ligite. Ha!
 
Are you counting gambling in casinos? I've won over a thousand on a single bet many, many times, more times than I have fingers and toes for. Of course, that has been offset by many, many thousands of times I've lost a dollar (or five, or fifty) on a bet, so take from that what you will. Biggest I ever won on a single bet was $2500 on a $3 slot pull ($1 x 3 lines). Last Thursday I won $750 on a bet of $1.25 ($.25 x five lines). Three red sevens, right after I said, "Three red sevens would be nice," to Mrs Mosca.
 
I've been contacted numberous times about how my help is needed transferring funds for someone in Nigeria. Does that count?
 
Banker said:
A few years back I won a trip for two to Boston, Massachusetts from Atlanta....
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Wow! That's pretty exciting. I love This Old House. Did you get to meet Norm? He's my favorite!
 
One of our hobbies is entering sweepstakes. We've won lots of little things, some money, and several trips - cancun, San Diego, Jamaica, New Orleans and one really fabulous trip we won for our son. He got to drive in the Baja 1000 as part of the Monster Energy team. His prize included 2 trips to the Baja - one to learn how to drive the dune buggies and then to drive in the race. He got to meet Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) and Jesse James!! It's a great hobby!:D
 
I once won a set of stainless steel dinnerware as a door prize. I also once won a getaway weekend (free lodging and breakfast, one dinner and a carriage ride) in a drawing of those who had filled out and reurned a survey.
 
I won close to $700 on our tug Alaska cruise the first night. I've never won anything big big. The most fun win was when we went to Harrah's in Cherokee to see a Jo Dee Masino . All tickets were put in a drum for a drawing. They let Kelli draw the tix and she pulled her own out and won $500!! Little ole ladies watching it said it was legal, she wasn't looking!! I took a pic of her holding 5 $100 bills. She was all excited and as we were leaving for the Bahamas in a couple of weeks she said, Now, can I swim with the dolphins!! shaggy
 
macko420 said:
One of our hobbies is entering sweepstakes. We've won lots of little things, some money, and several trips - cancun, San Diego, Jamaica, New Orleans and one really fabulous trip we won for our son. He got to drive in the Baja 1000 as part of the Monster Energy team. His prize included 2 trips to the Baja - one to learn how to drive the dune buggies and then to drive in the race. He got to meet Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) and Jesse James!! It's a great hobby!:D
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How many sweepstakes do you enter? How much time do you spend? Have you figured out your win percentage?
 
I used to go to the local home and garden show until they changed venues. We twice won $500 gift certificates in a drawing which were used for a garage door and a solid surface counter top and sink. (Not big but not complaining either.:D )
 
I won...

I won $200 worth of Birds Eye frozen vegetables in the form of free coupons that could be used for one year in an online contest. I won a NFL jacket, some match box cars and a bathing suit in other online contest. I've entered contests online daily for a number of years but apparently don't have the good luck of the posters above. :bawl:
 
I won a trip for 2 to an all inclusive in Jamaica including airfare.

It was at an Air Jamaica sponsored dinner/party and as you walked in they gave you a stub and the other half was put in a hat. I still remember my excitement when they called my number.
 
New Kitchen

My wife won a $10,000 kitchen makeover. All new cabinets, tile floor, new appliances, the works. We did about $5000 of additional work on our own to enhance the finished product. Now we will probably move next year.:shrug:
 
dwsupt said:
Now we will probably move next year.:shrug:
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Great prize! It seems like as soon as we remodel, or make a major capital expenditure on our home we move. Maybe that's just the way it is...at least with a kitchen remodel it's supposed to add substantial value (However, I don't know if that's true this market) to the same extent.
 
I don't think I've ever won anything. But strangely, when my dad signs up my mom for things, she wins. She won an organ (I remmeber growing up with that, never realized it was won). She's won appliances, but no cars. lol.

The biggest prize I've never known anyone to win, was most recently. My hubby's co-worker, one the Hawaii trip on the Ellen show. They said it was worth $10k. I think it was. His co-worker was on tv, told him about all the awesome things they did. Private dinner on a secluded beach, etc. I'm jealous.

Wait. I did win the Tuggers March Madness Tournament. Yay. I'm a winner!:cheer:
 
Our local hospital used to have a raffle with the 1st prize being a house worth $350,000 or $250,000 cash. The tickets were $100 each, there were 20 prizes with the lowest being $1000, and only 5000 tickets sold. DH and I always bought a ticket. One year my MIL called and wanted to know if we wanted to go in with the rest of the family to buy a ticket. I almost said "no" since wehad our own ticket but then decided what the heck, for $14+, why not. Good thing we did because we won! We took the cash, splitting 7 ways.
The following year the hospital had to stop the house raffle, something to do with PA law and small games of chance winnings could not be more than $25,000. We continued buying our own ticket as well as going together with the family. Two years later my SIL won a cruise on her own ticket and the following year the family won $1000!
 
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