What is something you have won?

[NJmaverick]

How did you win it?

[MissMillie]

1. Front Row seats to a Yes concert

won them at a raffle at the record signing the day before the show.

[RebelOne]

2. Ski trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado

I entered a sweepstakes drawing at a local Atlanta radio station. And my name was picked. So I won airline tickets and accommodations for two people in Steamboat Springs. The only thing is that I don't ski, but there was plenty else to do.

[NJmaverick]

3. What else was there to do?

[RebelOne]

22. Shopping. Going snowmobiling, going on sled rides

to restaurants up in the mountains. And more shopping.

[NewJeffCT]

4. back in high school, I won a small TV

we had one of those fund raisers to raise money for our class and I barely sold over the minimum to qualify for the TV and I won it. It was a little B&W TV with a built in radio as well. However, it was nice to use for late at night, and also in my dorm room in college.

[gmoney]

5. I won $100 from Cap'n Crunch... when I was about 23 (nt)

[bigwillq]

6. Concert tickets

From a radio call-in contest.

[miss_american_pie]

7. My ipod

Won it in a raffle at work which was supposed to appease us for all the shitty things corporate has done in light of the economy.

[InkAddict]

8. Year's supply of M&Ms

I entered an on-line contest. Of course, they arrived during the hottest spell of the summer. The USPS couldn't deliver the package, but left a note. I went to pick it up on lunch hour and had to have help bringing the box into the office A/C. 365 little packages of M&Ms - LOL - surprised me, for sure.

[NJmaverick]

12. So that's how they do the year's worth thing?

a little dissappointing.

[guitar man]

9. a year's worth of fountain drinks

I was one of the first customers to walk into a brand new convienence store near my job and I won 365 32 oz fountain drinks.

:bounce:

[Iggo]

10. I won a $100.00 gift certificate from the Cerritos Mall.

Back in 1979 or '80. One of my friends put my name in. I didn't have to be there to win (and I wasn't). I just got a call one day to come pick up my hundred bucks. I bought a pair of white pants at Chess King for about twenty-five bucks. They gave me the change in cash. I went and bought some sticky weed with the rest. All-in-all an excellent weekend.

[cyberswede]

11. A book on classic movies from TCM online

I won a drawing for a book from TCM. I think I took a movie trivia quiz first, and then they drew a winner from participants in the quiz.

I won a bicycle helmet at a recent trivia fundraiser (I wore it throughout the remainder of the trivia night - it was fun). :)

[Ikonoklast]

13. Won a dance contest.

Did the 'Twist' with the then-wife.

Did it all dirty, and won.

[rcrush]

23. I want to see this dirty twist of yours.

[Ikonoklast]

27. Cost you.

I was always told that one day I could make money off one of my many useless talents.

Not a lot of money, mind you.

Bus fare would be nice.

[AggieGal]

14. Nintendo Wii

Employee contest sponsored by a vendor. My husband was very excited.

I also won some circus tickets as a teen. The happy feeling of winning does not stay long when the circus is an outdoor one in February. It was OK. The best part was getting hot cocoa at grandma's house afterwards.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. I don't think I have ever won anything.

[yy4me]

16. Still waiting, getting old, running out of time. Need lottery win to

make up for all the years when I won nothing.

[blue_onyx]

17. A Wii

I won it through a contest online. I enter a lot of contests and have won various things over the years. The Wii is probably my biggest win.

[Kali]

18. free vegan meal at the local Hari Krishna compound or whatever you call it.

Series! Actually they have really good food, but it was a little odd for us to win that particular prize. It was a raffle at the Tucson Folk Festival a few years ago. We were going for a guitar.

I won some cool looking throw pillows last year. We had let the local Morgan Horse association have permission to do a big trail ride on the private property. They invited us up for dinner and had a small club raffle - I think they saw me looking at them and made sure I won them as a sort of thankyou, but maybe I really did win. Don't usually, that is for sure.

[lightningandsnow]

19. A bunch of small things...

Theatre tickets, tickets to an art show, a Dixie Chicks prize pack, a t-shirt, tickets to a comedy festival...all from local newspapers, magazines or radio stations.

I win stuff a lot. Maybe I should buy lottery tickets one of these days.

[skygazer]

20. An Easy-Bake oven

When I was about 8 or 9. I don't remember how - I think it was a cereal box contest.

I won a cell phone on a radio call-in contest once (whose apartment was Mama Cass in when she died?). It was one of those huge, clunky Motorola phones that had a battery that lasted about 3 minutes.

And I won a $100 gift certificate to a restaurant in a work contest once.

[fizzgig]

21. i won some cds when i was 14

it was one of those radio call-in things where you had to name the previous five songs or something. i know i got rancid's ...and out come the wolves and i think the other two were a shelter and a lenny kravitz cd, but i don't remember.

[Ptah]

24. Pre release tickets to 'The Sterile Cuckoo'

1969 'First one hundred callers get tickets' radio show

And the first draft lottery (#26)

[hyphenate]

25. Money

$640, $1600, $500 (twice), $100

Slot machines, and bingo. Vegas.

My SIL recently won $1000 on a poker machine, getting a royal flush.

Forgot: more money--$1400, when the SuperLotto plus was first running. We got 5 out of six numbers, and were pissed at the small amount we got. It changed not long after that, which awarded a parimutuel prize. If we had won about three months later, it would have been a six figure award. We used it well--Mom and I used it to pay off the B&Bs in England and Scotland on our trip.

[Martin Eden]

26. MVP of my slow-pitch softball team

The captain had the players do a secret ballot after we finished 1st place regualar season and won the playoffs. He said it was nearly unanimous for me, which was quite an honor given the fact that I was 42 at the time.

I'm still playing on my regular park district teams, but now at 51 I'm also on a Senior (50+ AAA division) team that plays weekend tournaments. I just got back from Gallatin (near Nashville) where we won a berth to the Senior Softball Tournament of Champions this winter in Florida.

[SteppingRazor]

28. I won an arts scholarship in high school.

Couple hundred bucks from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in their Short Story category. Looking back on it now, that story is TERRIBLE. But I guess it was good for a 17-year-old.

My dad would have a more-interesting answer to this: He's won two cars in his life.

[MajorChode]

29. I won a free 2 day trip to a time share condo in Branson, MO

I got the notice in the mail. It was funny, cuz I don't even remember entering the contest.

[LanternWaste]

30. 1st Chair All-State Orchestra in 1983 & 1984

"What is something you have won?"
1st Chair All-State Orchestra in 1983 & 1984

"How did you win it?"
Because I played Bass Clarinet. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
(Band Weenies and ex-Band Weenies may understand...)

[TommyO]

31. A Commodore 1541 disk drive via a random drawing on Q-Link

Many, many, many years ago.

Oh, and 3rd place in a country-western waltz competition, also many, many years ago.

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. Tickets to see Bad Manners live in Ann Arbor, late 1980s.

Someone conned the prizemaster that they were the ticket winner, not the LP winner. So I got the LP, all for being late. I still love it.

TROMPEET!

[Brother Buzz]

33. I won my eighth grade archery championship

How did I do it? I shot better than anyone else. :shrug:

[unpossibles]

34. trip to the rock and roll hall of fame

I was calling in to request a song, and while dialing (and almost done), I heard the DJ say they'd take the first caller, blah blah. I did not even know what I was trying to win, but was entered into the drawing. Then they drew my name (and made fun of it on the air when they could not pronounce it, naturally), and I won the trip.

What's funny is, I lived in Columbus, OH at the time. The HoF is in Cleveland. They flew me up, which took longer than driving, and the tax on the trip ended up costing me a couple hundred dollars. It was fun, but I could have gone up there for less.

[handmade34]

35. Howard Dean's necktie - really!

I always participated in the St. Johnsbury,VT yearly Kiwanis Auction. In 2000, Howard Dean was in town and helping out when I started bidding on a power drill. Howard Dean offered his tie to the highest bidder... in good fun, I think I bid upwards of $90.00 and won the tie... I kept it around for a year or two and then threw it away one day in a cleaning frenzy. Wish I had kept it.

http://www.stjkauction.com/how_auction_works.php

[trof]

36. I 'won'(?) a title: "King of Glen Iris School", with bought votes.

Circa 1952.
My grammar school (Glen Iris) needed (or just 'wanted'?) new water fountains.
Some bright(?) person decided to hold an election for King and Queen of the school.
And you voted with...MONEY!
'Donations' for the new fountains.
Votes were a penny apiece.
Talk about subverting the voting system at an early age.

Anyway, I was a 'child of a broken home'.
Poor me. :-(
My parents had divorced when I was 4, and mom and I lived with her parents.
I guess grandpa decided I needed an ego boost as the poor waif of a single mom :cry: so my suspicions (unconfirmed, but I'm sure that's what happened) are that grandpa 'bought' the election for me.

Soooo...I was the King and Shirley Ferguson (WHY can I still remember her name?) was the Queen.

My mother, who dabbled in college and amateur theatrics designed and sewed our costumes. I have a photo of the King and Queen and the Court (runnersup).
Maybe if I can figure out how my new printer-fax-copier-scanner-toaster-coffemaker works I can post it.
:eyes:

[triguy46]

37. A Mont Blanc ballpoint at a trade show in 1992. Still have it and use it daily.

[hippywife]

38. A watch at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah.

It has a pic of Woody on the face. I don't wear watches so I have no idea where it is at this moment.

[MrSlayer]

39. I recently won a meet and greet with the band Testament.

Got to see sound check, hang out with the band and get autographs and a bunch of free swag. Was quite cool. I won it off of Sirius radio.

[GaYellowDawg]

40. Six fire-bellied toads.

Won them in a drawing at an academic conference in Atlanta. Donated them to my department and they are now departmental mascots and the most spoiled frogs in the world.

If I'd been drawn just ONE turn later, I would have won an all-expenses-paid three week biological research seminar in Belize. Rain forest canopy biology. Sigh.

[applegrove]

41. I won a fruitcake at a highland dancing competition (not because of my dancing but because

I had the winning number). I won most valuable player in the White House league sports team in grade nine.

[jellen]

42. I won $500. in lottery, bought a $200. purse, snatched off me 2 wks. later.

[midnight armadillo]

43. Tickets to see Rush!

It was finals week of my senior year in high school. I won tickets on a radio contest for a Wed. night concert. Me and a buddy went, and both scored terrible scores on our music final exam the next day due to residual deafness from the show. The music teacher gave us good final grades anyway out of amusement (hey, he was retiring and we were graduating - why not?) Let's see, I think that was their Roll the Bones tour.

[kwassa]

44. Free tickets to a Belezean music festival.

at which I also won t-shirts and free tapes.

Punta rock. Great stuff.

by being a quick caller to a music program on a PBS station.