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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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).
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…