# Survey: Ever won anything cool in a raffle **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943 "2003-01-16T07:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/21 "2003-01-16T16:19:54Z")
A really creepy stuffed clown doll and a big jar of jellybeans, for coming the closest to guessing the number of jellybeans in the jar. I was off by 8 or 10 beans IIRC. I’ve also won gift certificates to restaurants, mini-golf passes, and passes to museums. My mom won a hand-held color TV in a raffle a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/22 "2003-01-16T16:30:01Z")
I won a cash prize in a 50-50 raffle at the town fair where my parents grew up, when I was 12. The very next year, I won a color TV in the same raffle, at the same town fair. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/23 "2003-01-16T16:34:52Z")
Sadly, we won an 8 foot tall rubber tree plant once. Try getting that home from an office Christmas party in a Geo Prizm someday. I think we broke several laws of the universe that night. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/24 "2003-01-16T16:35:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curly chick \* > **I won a Lotus Elise 111s last Christmas** Ha! We won a 1976 Plymouth Volare at a church raffle…fortunately, the upkeep was within our means. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/25 "2003-01-16T16:49:13Z")
I won a giant gatorade cooler at the Canadian Open (golf). ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/26 "2003-01-16T16:59:09Z")
I won a 10lb chocolate bar (huge!) when I was in Jr. High. The really pathetic part was that the school was having a magazine subscription fundraiser and for every subscription you sold your name went into the raffle to win this prize. Some kids sold hundreds of subscriptions and I sold one to myself (Rolling Stone, I think…maybe “Sassy”) and one to my mom (Consumer Reports.) I actually felt bad for a while, until the sugar buzz kicked in, haha. And like sWitchhazel I got a bit of a jolt – I was called to the office over the PA system with no indication of why. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what I was in trouble for! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/27 "2003-01-16T17:03:23Z")
**3** times I’ve won all-in-one stereo systems at office parties. We’ve kept two, but the last one I returned and put toward a dishwasher. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/28 "2003-01-16T17:31:03Z")
I’ve won a pretty crummy hand-crocheted lap blanket, and a super-cool 7 cup brand-new Quisinart food processor. Those suckers are HEAVY. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/29 "2003-01-16T20:09:10Z")
4 day Mexican cruise for 2. Took the baby and had to pay extra for an upgrade, but still not too bad of a deal. The airfare was seperate, and we drove to the ship, so we still have 2 plane tickets to use. Coincidentally, we get 5 free days of skiing in Colorado, so we may fly out there and do that, paying only for a cheapy hotel and food. Or maybe out to DC to check out the Smithsonian. Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![AV8R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AV8R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AV8R)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/30 "2003-01-16T21:35:49Z")
**$100 Gift Certificate** - from the local grocery store ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/31 "2003-01-16T23:31:25Z")
Yes, a trip for 2 to the Grand Canyon, with an all you can eat and drink deal at the most expensive restaurant there. I think I made myself ill from the food and too much drink. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/32 "2003-01-17T00:36:55Z")
I have won: A 6 foot tall Christmas stocking filled with a bunch of useless stuff. A go kart with a green plastic Corvette body and 7up stickers all over it. I gave it to a church for a charity raffle to avoid paying taxes on it. A Magellen hand held GPS unit. Sold it on Ebay. A case of Union 76 racing oil. One of the sponsors of my race car at that time was a distributor of Castrol motor oil. I got all the oils and lubricants I needed for free. I used it in an old Dodge pickup I had at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/33 "2003-01-17T04:34:05Z")
I won a \*Sleeping Beauty \* coloring book in kindegarten. It was used $500 on a scratch off lottery ticket. $50 in a raffle in high school. Once, I won all the prizes at a baby shower. (Door prize and two trivia contests. ) Smelly soap anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/34 "2003-01-17T04:35:28Z")
A very good friend of mine, who has been out of work for over a year, recently won one of those call in radio contests. \*\*$12,000 \*\*. I was very happy for her. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/35 "2003-01-17T04:49:18Z")
I won a portable cd player in a drawing at the summer picnic at my last paying job (I had to join the PAC someone was pushing to get tickets). It was the first cd player we owned, and we joined the BMG music club in order to get something to play on it. We used that for our home cd player for almost twelve years. Three years ago, I won two Picasso prints in a raffle we held for the elementary school’s Destination Imagination teams. It was a little embarrassing, because my family and I had ended up buying a whole slew of tickets when the sale wasn’t going well, so I won first prize and my brother won third. The “two Picasso prints” turned out to be two copies of the SAME print, so I traded one of them to my brother for the prize he’d won - a one-month child’s gymnastics course (he’s childless). ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/36 "2003-01-17T04:53:28Z")
What are you guys doing that I’m not? The ONLY thing I’ve ever won in a raffle was a lousy bag of cottonballs. I priced them my next trip to WalMart, 50 cents on sale. I believe I am jealous of you lucky ducks… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/37 "2003-01-17T05:15:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\*Didn’t you win a nice new hat in **OpalCat’s** raffle recently. It only made “among other things”, you ungrateful bollix;). **yojimbo** prayed to his god for that hat - I had to buy him one to compensate for his extreme dejection (which expressed itself in all sorts of ways - let’s just say we had to start putting bromide in his tea again). \*\* * * * :eek: Oh God!!! The virtual raffle slipped my slippery mind. I refuse to say “my bad” because it’s a silly phrase, but…gawd, do I suck! Okay, that was four cool things. –the grateful bollix 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/38 "2003-01-17T05:31:55Z")
I suck, and I’m losing it. I also won my digital camera from my credit union’s raffle. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943/39 "2003-01-17T20:04:56Z")
when I was about 14, about 1974 I won a **leisure suit**! I had no need for it, so my dad gladly took it-and wore it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-ever-won-anything-cool-in-a-raffle/148943.md?page=1)