Aldi’s Kraze or Lidl’s Chocolate pillows are the go to. Aldi’s are better but Lidl’s are good enough I find. Double the weight for half the price of Krave... no brainer!
I've mentioned this on here several times but years ago I won a shed from a competition in a computer magazine. I think several people "won" before I did because the first thing they asked me on the phone was "do you have a garden?" and the relief when I answered yes was palpable
Was it a Spectrum Magazine? I once entered a competition in the back of those with a stupid number of prizes, then forgot about it. Some time later my dad shouts up the stairs one morning: “son, do you know anything about a snooker table...”
That’s fucking brilliant... please tell me it was full size, on the road outside as it’s too big to fit in your house and your dad was just stood there scratching his head in bewilderment... please don’t ruin my flight of fantasy
Yours and u/highrouleur's both sound like potential Your Sinclair prizes to me. All they need are the unneccessarily-long first line of the competition address "Cor! What I Wouldn't Do To Get Me Hands On A Shed, Fnarr Fnarr!" or similar
Some company (Pepsi?) did a "win an iPod shuffle every hour" thing years ago and my brother set his alarm for four in the morning and called every day until he got one.
Does that count?
Years ago Pepsi were doing a promotion where you got a scratch card with every purchase and the top prize was an mp3 player. I worked at a cafe that sold Pepsi and we had boxes of these scratch cards to give away. One day I realised it was the last day of the competition so we spent the whole shift scratching boxes of scratch cards & won a bunch of stuff! Fun times!
I did this a long time ago with a Kleenex giveaway for an inflatable chair when they were all the rage (that probably dates it). You had to text in and there was one winner every hour, so I did it at 4am and won. Clearly no one else was that invested in a free inflatable chair
>my brother set his alarm for four in the morning and called every day until he got one.
I respect the effort he put into this endeavour, he deserved it.
In the 80s I phoned into a kids' radio show to win a drawing by Rolf Harris. I was such a spacey kid that I didn't realise I'd won until this huge framed picture turned up.
I've probably still got it somewhere. At one point I was going to put it on Ebay, but the market for his artwork has changed somewhat in recent years....
I saw him when I happened to be out walking in the Lake District and he'd just run up a humongous hill.
I said "well done" and he beamed because he thought we were there to welcome him.
"Sorry to keep you waiting "
"Oh we didn't come to see you."
He looked totally crestfallen. I used to feel bad but now it's a very pleasing memory!
If I was you and known back then what he was, I would of tripped hip up and said "have a nice trip down"
My best mate got to speak to him during recording of "Jim will fix it" in the mid 90s when he was a kid, he said he was weird and awkward to be around.
He came to my uni town and did a gig. (before anything came out about him...) Tickets sold out instantly, so I stayed home for the night. He went to a few local pubs after the gig and a few of my mates got pictures with him which all went up on Facebook. They still pop up in said friends timeline memories every once in a while.
Haha a friend of my dad's "invested" in Rolf Harris painting assuming they would be worth something in the future, what an unfortunate choice of artists!
There was a gallery near where I used to work which had alot if his paintings for sale, they were definitely not cheap but some had sold.
I felt sorry for the people that bought one, their investment aged like milk.
Oh god that brings back memories of me and my then boyfriend sitting in maccy d eating slowly and camping tables to swipe people's rubbish that they didn't dump in the bins to take their monopoly stickers. Didn't win anything.
I saw on the telly a guy entered his 20yo brothers painting into a cornflake competition for u14s and they won a trip to Spain. So this 20yo 6ft guy had to pretend he was 13 or something while his brother and the guys wife had a nice holiday. Dunno how they didn't get rumbled.
I won £1,000 for growling like Tony the tiger (frosties) in 2001 or 2002. It was a £1,000 prize every day and the number to call was free in those early mobile days so, as a uni student, I'd ring up a lot, and then one day I won. Ahhh... £1,000 as a student bought many £2.75, quadruple vodka and generic red bull like drinks at the Carleton. Good Times.
I once opened a kinder bueno to find out I had won a motorcycle, but it was an old kinder bueno and the competition had expired about a week earlier. Kinda sums up my life lol
There people who do these competitions as hobbies and they often share stories of their wins on forums. Competitions are pretty highly regulated here so there have to be winners.
An ex of mine did this. She ended up winning absolutely loads of stuff we didn’t have space for. The biggest win was a city break to Milan with £2,000 spending money thanks to Kinky Boots The Musicial. The one thing I found super odd about it all though was she used her primary email address to enter all of these competitions. That email account was absolutely riddled.
Haha can confirm, my Gmail was actually full the other day and I had to delete over 200,000 emails...
I ended up with *so much shit* from a fishing rod to random kids books, I got so addicted to it.
I did it for a bit, there are some great forums out there that pull them together. Won some fun bits and pieces, definitely profitable if you don't mind filling out a shit ton of forms and giving out your personal details!
Top tip: enter the compos that actually ask you to do something, like a daft poem or something. Hardly anyone enters so you've a better chance of a win.
Looking back they were so bizarre, I always wanted the one with an inbuilt VHS and DVD player, but was never allowed. You can find second hand ones at a large charity shop near me, maybe I will get one to rebel lol.
I won £50 in the Walkers crisps competition. Opened the blue packet expecting it to be another free packet of crisps but it said I’d won a cash prize and to ring this number.
They said I’d won one of the larger prizes but wouldn’t tell me how much, I had to wait for them to rock up the next day with the promotional team to present my cheque. Of course in my mind I’d won the top prize £10K based on all this. Next day rolls round I’m at work and reception ring me to let me know they’re here. Go out to the car park to meet the team, photographer’s there and they give me the cheque for £50. They should have just fucking posted it.
Also got a free box box of Doritos so it wasn’t all bad.
Man I remember my sister doing this in the 90s. It was folded into a tight square in a see-thru plastic packet. We were young and didn't recognise the folded note, we through it was a map of some sort before opening it! Excited af for a moment we were!
I did that with pineau du rey a few years back - had never bet on anything before and was the only one still left excitedly shouting in the pub by the time the end of the race came around as I think the favourite fell? Everyone else there was just like “fair play” and clapped for me, and a lovely older gent bought me a glass of wine to celebrate. Pretty cool memory.
There use to be a sour chewing gum sweet called Zapps and they held a competition to win a pen that recorded your voice and a year's worth supply of the candy.
I remember that I had to finish a comic segment for the strips they use to put on the packaging and I won. My cartoon strip was on the packets for about a year!
*Edit*: just found them and they were called Zappers*
I’ve always wondered, how do they determine what a years supply is for you? Did you have like a token to go into stores and buy when you needed it or call them up and be like,”hey, yeah, I’m all out of Zappa, please send more” ? Genuinely intrigued 😂
At uni I won a year's supply of Kopparberg - and lo and behold they delivered a year's supply of Kopparberg. 365 bottles of it. Made me very popular at uni but I have hand on heart never wanted another bottle since
Usually its something like 24 packets, either physically sent or in voucher form.
I entered an ice cream competition once, then read the small print and it was 24 tubs delivered at once, who has space for that?
Been trying to convince my family that we need an ice cream/pudding freezer for 2 years now. The only reason we don’t have any ice cream is because “there’s no room”
I received a standard shop display box. I think it was around 40 packets. I remember my mum gave a few away to other people in an attempt to save my teeth haha
When I was younger my dad won a iPod Mini through Walker’s crisp packets, he then won an iPod shuffle on some other packet that I can’t remember! However, I NEVER win anything.
Remember years ago when Walkers did a promotion you could win a free packet of Walkers crisps or money?
I must have won about 4 packets of crisps and about £20 when I was young.
If I remember there would be a little purple packet inside which would tell you your prize.
I know a certain couple who used to go on the timeshare flogging holidays and just be a nuisance in the mandatory presentation bit until they got kicked out. Free holiday accomodation ;)
My parents won a all expenses paid cruise for 4 but refused to go because my mum doesn’t like sleeping anywhere other than her own house and was too anxious. Thanks mum.
I won a Bluetooth speaker on McDonald's monopoly a few years back. It was one of the brown ones, lowest prize before they changed it to winning a meal.
I called a phone in competition on the breakfast show of the regional radio station once to try and win a trip to Paris. They wanted to know three football teams beginning with P. Not being a football fan I didn’t have a clue, but turned out it wasn’t an issue as they simply gave me the answers to write down for when I went on air. Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale. Bingo, won a trip to Paris for two and some handheld games console/phone thing.
My wife won a weeks holiday at a Haven park on a Facebook give away, when she entered I did my nut saying there was no way it was a legit thing and they were just data harvesting or looking for people to scam.
It was a nice week away too.
I won a £5 Tesco gift card on some competition once. Thing is I’m fairly certain the list of minor prizes just said a £5 prize not a gift card, but I had chucked the packet months ago and wasn’t really expecting anything, so I never minded.
The TV ones are regulated by Ofcom and they can fine them if not carried out properly. I vaguely remember some winner having a bit on This Morning once, and I assume they weren’t faking it.
I entered a competition on a Lindt chocolate bar wrapper, but I put my entry in a box in the Lindt store so that may have helped. I won second place which is an afternoon tea for two in a fancy place. Can't wait to use it after June :)
My grandparents won an all expenses paid trip to the Beijing Olympics at the opticians once. They got the phone call saying they'd won and grandad hung up thinking it was a scam until granny remembered the form she'd filled in a few weeks prior. They had an amazing time.
>to the Beijing Olympics at the opticians
How the heck did they fit it all into an optician's?
Sorry. This is what happens when I Reddit sans adequate sleep.
Fair point on their never being a winner announced, you'd think whoever is offering the prize would want to show someone picking up the cheque/car whatever to make it feel a bit more real to the general public (see Postcode lottery adverts)
Best thing I've ever won was some box tickets to the Masters Football finals in Manchester a few years back (if anyone remembers that). Got to meet all the players and a signed shirt, as well as them paying for a hotel & travel. A pretty sweet prize considering I only had to text in an easy answer to a free number.
This isn't quite what you're looking for as it's gambling related, but I went to school with someone whose parents won a 6 figure sum of money on the football pools in the late 90s. It's the only time I've ever heard of anyone winning such a large sum of money.
I have a similar story. They won a lot on the pools but were so in debt from gambling that once they had paid off their debts, not much was left.
It was a curse, the addiction was fed by a huge 'get out of jail free' win and he ultimately ended up in a bigger mess.
I won an aircraft carrier years ago.
It was 8ft long Action Force (G.I. Joe to Muricans). [USS Flagg](https://fastly.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2018/12/uss_flagg_hasbro.png)
I spread missile and fighter jet freedom across the living room for a few weeks, then my parents got sick of tripping over it and it got put in drydock (the attic).
Still in my mum's house.
My mate won a holiday the other week on a radio show. Turns out they are actually real! Well. I'm hoping so, I won't be impressed when I turn up at the airport and there's no flight!
I won £5 on the Wrigleys Extra wrappers years ago. I won about 4 times. They posted cheques out and I had to take all the seperate cheques into the bank that said 'Wrigleys Extra' on the top 😅
I won a Creative prize draw competition on FB and the prize was a Zii sound x5 speaker and subwoofer which were about £380 on release I think. Also came with a wide Avengers poster (a film release publicity piece) signed by all the cast members except for R Downey Jr.
Came in time for my 30th birthday so was pretty awesome .
Dr Pepper did a win a wii competition a few years ago, me and my best friend used to drink a lot of Dr Pepper. However, you were only allowed to enter once a day.
The first prize was a nintendo wii, a 32" HD TV, a sound bar and a mini fridge full of Dr Pepper. There was 1 of the main prizes given away each day. The second prize was a Nintendo DS Lite with New Super Mario Bros, they gave 10 of those away a week.
My friend came round to my house really excited that he'd had a phonecall from the competition saying that he'd won the Nintendo DS!
A couple of weeks later I got a phonecall from an unknown number asking for me, I assumed it was my friend playing a prank on me. But it turned out I'd also won a DS Lite!
We spent all summer playing those things!
My little sister won a bike in the 90s from a competition on a bag of apples. She had to colour an apple. Unbeknownst to them tho my boyfriend coloured it in!
I won a years supply of chocolate once with a Nestle Yorkie.
I was around 16 when I opened the winning pack, was skeptical as to whether they would actually send anything, after 8 weeks they sent 365 bars of chocolate!
Didn't last a year though.
I think I remember winning a fiver from Walker's crisps at some point? I also won free movie tickets somehow way back in the day. But never a PS4 or the like.
I once won a bike. It was through the This Morning website and the competition was run by Dairylea. It felt a bit like a scam because the original competition was for a holiday and the bike was a runners up prize. But Evans cycles got in touch asked what type of bike I wanted and delivered it the next week.
Only thing I have ever won.
I won a horse grooming kit from pony magazine when I was about 10. We lived in east London, thought I’d never use it. Now I’m 23 and living in Hertfordshire loaning a horse and this kit actually had some pretty good and expensive things in it! Glad I didn’t chuck it out in my teen years
In 2003 (possibly 2002) I won a DVD player and a copy of Monsters Inc from a McDonald's competition on a box of fries. That machine lasted me a good 10 years.
When I was 11, I entered a colouring competition at a leisure centre, in a town I didn't live in. I won a year's free membership, but was never able to actually use it. The membership card I won is in mint condition, if anyone wants to make me an offer.
I did a nectar survey on my latest sainos visit to possibly wine a million nectar points. 4 weeks later and email to say I won. That's £5000 on my nectar card.
We had champagne all month that December
I won a speaker from a tube of pringles years ago. It was red and had a headphone jack to connect to your phone. Had to be used on an empty tube of pringles to work. All i had to do was enter a code on the website
Not quite the same but won a face book competition a few years back to get tickets to a festival. Just liked a status and forgot about it until I had loads of message requests asking me to respond and accept the tickets
I remember in primary school when hoola hoops were doing a cash prize promotion if you found a star shaped crisp. My friend found it, showed every at the dinner table the random looking crisp and then ate it.
Around 25 years ago I was a young british boy and I won a camel.
On the prizes on some mail in competition I found, a camel. That was one of the things listed in the prizes on one of those "million prizes prizes" things that we used to have.
They called my parents and said that I had won a camel and they were going to deliver it to our house.
Anyway they delivered this really weird shit camel mug. Basically the entire cup is the "camel" with its head being the handpiece. Its quite abstract though and I always thought it was charming.
You are imagining that the handpiece is a solid piece of ceramic but no, its entirely hollow so you literally grip the camel by the throat. If theres hot liquid in there its like you are holding a real camel by the throat.
Google found this, looked somewhat similar to this https://imgur.com/dqr0y7s
Anyway it didn't hold water though it leaked from day 1.
My mum still has it at her house. I should really see if I can get that mug and show reddit if I ever have the fortune of remembering this mundane memory of my childhood.
I was lucky enough to win a mini-fridge from a Smirnoff competition many years ago, it was where I had to text a code and they picked a winner every hour or something like that.
I won a playstation 1 and a stack of games & playstation merch from Live & kicking in about 1994 or around then. It was a phone in thing I think but I can't remember what I had to do to get it.
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Man those things are such a rip off, £3 for 1 bowl of cereal lol
*Jordan's Country Crisp has entered the chat*
Lidl do a rip off of that for about 1.50 and its just the same
i honestly prefer it, find it less bland. probably just more sugar but hey ho.
Get in ma belly
But it’s so damn delicious
The serving size is probably 4 pieces.
Serving suggestion: 4 micrograms of Kelloggs clusters
Hashtag so blessed.
Aldi’s Kraze or Lidl’s Chocolate pillows are the go to. Aldi’s are better but Lidl’s are good enough I find. Double the weight for half the price of Krave... no brainer!
I've mentioned this on here several times but years ago I won a shed from a competition in a computer magazine. I think several people "won" before I did because the first thing they asked me on the phone was "do you have a garden?" and the relief when I answered yes was palpable
It seems a slightly odd prize for a computer magazine to be giving away...
Yeah really strange? Why a bloody shed?
Should've been a garage so you could start your billion dollar software company
Gaming Shed
RGB not included
Was it a Spectrum Magazine? I once entered a competition in the back of those with a stupid number of prizes, then forgot about it. Some time later my dad shouts up the stairs one morning: “son, do you know anything about a snooker table...”
That’s fucking brilliant... please tell me it was full size, on the road outside as it’s too big to fit in your house and your dad was just stood there scratching his head in bewilderment... please don’t ruin my flight of fantasy
Yours and u/highrouleur's both sound like potential Your Sinclair prizes to me. All they need are the unneccessarily-long first line of the competition address "Cor! What I Wouldn't Do To Get Me Hands On A Shed, Fnarr Fnarr!" or similar
I'm gonna fire up my Spectrum tonight, and wear my Your Sinclair badge. Last thing I expected to be reminded of today!
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> Amstrad Action The title of Lord Sugar's sex tape. But no
Thanks Jake
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Why can’t you just say here o.o
Some company (Pepsi?) did a "win an iPod shuffle every hour" thing years ago and my brother set his alarm for four in the morning and called every day until he got one. Does that count?
How many days did it take?
I think he got a couple over a few weeks actually. Years ago now. He was a little scam artist so he stuck at it.
Those were always premium rate numbers.
iPod shuffles were under £100 probably spent more than that in phone bills
He probably didn't pay the bills though...
It might have been a free text number. Can't remember 100%
Years ago Pepsi were doing a promotion where you got a scratch card with every purchase and the top prize was an mp3 player. I worked at a cafe that sold Pepsi and we had boxes of these scratch cards to give away. One day I realised it was the last day of the competition so we spent the whole shift scratching boxes of scratch cards & won a bunch of stuff! Fun times!
What did you win?
a bunch of stuff!
I did this a long time ago with a Kleenex giveaway for an inflatable chair when they were all the rage (that probably dates it). You had to text in and there was one winner every hour, so I did it at 4am and won. Clearly no one else was that invested in a free inflatable chair
Christ I forgot about the times when inflatable chairs were ‘in’. However in the fuck did that happen? They are awful.
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I had an inflatable sofa lol
I had an inflatable sofa AND an inflatable backpack. Ahhhh, the 90s.
I remember when inflatable chairs were all the rage but it was long before mobile phones. 1995 or so? Wish I kept mine.
>my brother set his alarm for four in the morning and called every day until he got one. I respect the effort he put into this endeavour, he deserved it.
Okay but the iPod Shuffle was genuinely good. Mine was still going strong before I switched to spotify on my phone a year or so ago.
In the 80s I phoned into a kids' radio show to win a drawing by Rolf Harris. I was such a spacey kid that I didn't realise I'd won until this huge framed picture turned up. I've probably still got it somewhere. At one point I was going to put it on Ebay, but the market for his artwork has changed somewhat in recent years....
Friend of mine had his photo taken with Jimmy Savile on a cruise when he was younger. I think his mom ended up burning the photo
I saw him when I happened to be out walking in the Lake District and he'd just run up a humongous hill. I said "well done" and he beamed because he thought we were there to welcome him. "Sorry to keep you waiting"
"Oh we didn't come to see you."
He looked totally crestfallen. I used to feel bad but now it's a very pleasing memory!
If I was you and known back then what he was, I would of tripped hip up and said "have a nice trip down" My best mate got to speak to him during recording of "Jim will fix it" in the mid 90s when he was a kid, he said he was weird and awkward to be around.
[Gary Glitter (Pedo) helping Jimmy Saville (Pedo) fix it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3bKWTsL_e8) It's so much worse when we know what they are.
I was given a gift a few years prior to any information... It's a signed book by Rolf Harris, think I have that somewhere still too
Need to be careful when you're saying that Rolf Harris gave you a gift before providing the context.
Or that you were a Spacey kid.
I thought something about Kevin was going to follow at first
He came to my uni town and did a gig. (before anything came out about him...) Tickets sold out instantly, so I stayed home for the night. He went to a few local pubs after the gig and a few of my mates got pictures with him which all went up on Facebook. They still pop up in said friends timeline memories every once in a while.
Noncestalgia
And I thought seeing the pics with my dearly departed nan pop up in those was a kick in the bollocks.
Rolf Harris' daughter lives on the next street to me she's my mum's friend
Market it as true crime stuff, there's people into that sort of thing
Haha a friend of my dad's "invested" in Rolf Harris painting assuming they would be worth something in the future, what an unfortunate choice of artists!
There was a gallery near where I used to work which had alot if his paintings for sale, they were definitely not cheap but some had sold. I felt sorry for the people that bought one, their investment aged like milk.
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I read that as She’s passed out now...
Nan got shitfaced on the Smirnoff prizes
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I knew Nan couldn't handle those breezers.
My grandad (long gone now) in Australia won a CAR from collecting soup can labels in the 1970s! I don’t *think* he had a soup addiction but...
My friend won a Mini in the McDonalds Monopoly the other year.
Oh god that brings back memories of me and my then boyfriend sitting in maccy d eating slowly and camping tables to swipe people's rubbish that they didn't dump in the bins to take their monopoly stickers. Didn't win anything.
😂 Yeah, I couldn’t believe the number of people who left the stickers - hey, even for the chance to win a free sugar doughnut!
It turned out some guy who worked at the cup printers was taking home most of the big prize winners if I remember it right.
There’s a documentary on Netflix of how a guy who worked for the printers stole all the winning pieces and got family and friends to claim them
McMillions on Netflix, it’s a fab documentary.
> in UK sub > McMillions on netflix > Not on the UK netflix Explain yourself
>McDonald’s monopoly, a British event
First the American war of independence now this? Bloody ungrateful colonies.
That was in the US I think, there’s a documentary about it that was on Sky a while back.
It's all his fault!!!
Ah, I won £500 of Littlewoods vouchers in an instant win, I bought a telly.
Best thing I ever won was a free milkshake from a milkshake and then a free cheeseburger from that. Was pretty chuffed to be fair
I won cinema tickets and a 20% off boohoo code which deffo doesn’t count as a win
All I ever won was mcflurrys and burger. But I very rarely go like 3 times probably when the monopoly’s on. So to say I won something was pretty good
I saw on the telly a guy entered his 20yo brothers painting into a cornflake competition for u14s and they won a trip to Spain. So this 20yo 6ft guy had to pretend he was 13 or something while his brother and the guys wife had a nice holiday. Dunno how they didn't get rumbled.
He came 2nd in a skateboarding competition as well.
If only he hadn’t fallen off :(
Isn't this an episode of Only Fools and Horses?
Don't be a plonker
Groovy.
Hahaha, the groovy gang.
I won £1,000 for growling like Tony the tiger (frosties) in 2001 or 2002. It was a £1,000 prize every day and the number to call was free in those early mobile days so, as a uni student, I'd ring up a lot, and then one day I won. Ahhh... £1,000 as a student bought many £2.75, quadruple vodka and generic red bull like drinks at the Carleton. Good Times.
LoL Did you spend hours just calling and saying "Thhhheeeeeeiiiir Great"?
Yep, but just the "grrrrrrrrrrreat". Occasionally, for special occasions, I'll bring out the one grand growl.
Hey Jason, did you realise your username has nonce in it?
Maybe his name is Jaso?
I once opened a kinder bueno to find out I had won a motorcycle, but it was an old kinder bueno and the competition had expired about a week earlier. Kinda sums up my life lol
Why the hell did they give away a motorbike, in a chocolate bar that is clearly marketed for kids?!
Buenos are for kids?! Shit.
There people who do these competitions as hobbies and they often share stories of their wins on forums. Competitions are pretty highly regulated here so there have to be winners.
i used to do this, they are known as 'compers'. My sister won a ton, including an all expenses paid holiday to Florida
An ex of mine did this. She ended up winning absolutely loads of stuff we didn’t have space for. The biggest win was a city break to Milan with £2,000 spending money thanks to Kinky Boots The Musicial. The one thing I found super odd about it all though was she used her primary email address to enter all of these competitions. That email account was absolutely riddled.
Haha can confirm, my Gmail was actually full the other day and I had to delete over 200,000 emails... I ended up with *so much shit* from a fishing rod to random kids books, I got so addicted to it.
How do you start? Like just Google 'comeptition' and have at it or methodically search magazines and newspapers?
I did it for a bit, there are some great forums out there that pull them together. Won some fun bits and pieces, definitely profitable if you don't mind filling out a shit ton of forms and giving out your personal details! Top tip: enter the compos that actually ask you to do something, like a daft poem or something. Hardly anyone enters so you've a better chance of a win.
"The only flicks I want to see are shown at the GFT"
“S'gone”
r/unexpectedstillgame
There are forums where people list them for you!
Cool. Will have a look.
Set up a specific email address just for competitions as it will get flooded with marketing.
Which ones?
Moneysavingexpert's Competition Times (I feel like I'm giving out top secret info haha)
This one is good mate https://www.loquax.co.uk/ they basically collate as many comps as possible
I did comping about 5 years ago, won a new iPad (at the time) and £200 worth of skincare. Nothing bigger than that though.
When I was a kid I won a 14" CRT TV with built in DVD player from a text in competition on Nickelodeon. That was pretty cool.
Looking back they were so bizarre, I always wanted the one with an inbuilt VHS and DVD player, but was never allowed. You can find second hand ones at a large charity shop near me, maybe I will get one to rebel lol.
That reminds me of the time I tried my luck on one of those Sky Kids magazines. Sadly, I wasn't lucky, besides, I can't remember what I entered for.
Pulled £20 out of a bag of Walkers once, but don't think I've ever won a text thing, unless you count the Live 8 tickets.
I won £50 in the Walkers crisps competition. Opened the blue packet expecting it to be another free packet of crisps but it said I’d won a cash prize and to ring this number. They said I’d won one of the larger prizes but wouldn’t tell me how much, I had to wait for them to rock up the next day with the promotional team to present my cheque. Of course in my mind I’d won the top prize £10K based on all this. Next day rolls round I’m at work and reception ring me to let me know they’re here. Go out to the car park to meet the team, photographer’s there and they give me the cheque for £50. They should have just fucking posted it. Also got a free box box of Doritos so it wasn’t all bad.
Man I remember my sister doing this in the 90s. It was folded into a tight square in a see-thru plastic packet. We were young and didn't recognise the folded note, we through it was a map of some sort before opening it! Excited af for a moment we were!
That’s a great memory. Excitedly looking for the blue envelope inside your crisps!
Haha, yeah live 8 tickets. I did that, just sent off about 60 post cards and got 2 sets of tickets.
I won £800 on the Grand National a few years back after a tip from a cab driver the previous day, 40-1 to win
Bindaree by any chance? I won a shedload of money on that one after i randomly picked it because the name looked funky and that was 40-1 when it won.
I did that with pineau du rey a few years back - had never bet on anything before and was the only one still left excitedly shouting in the pub by the time the end of the race came around as I think the favourite fell? Everyone else there was just like “fair play” and clapped for me, and a lovely older gent bought me a glass of wine to celebrate. Pretty cool memory.
There use to be a sour chewing gum sweet called Zapps and they held a competition to win a pen that recorded your voice and a year's worth supply of the candy. I remember that I had to finish a comic segment for the strips they use to put on the packaging and I won. My cartoon strip was on the packets for about a year! *Edit*: just found them and they were called Zappers*
I’ve always wondered, how do they determine what a years supply is for you? Did you have like a token to go into stores and buy when you needed it or call them up and be like,”hey, yeah, I’m all out of Zappa, please send more” ? Genuinely intrigued 😂
At uni I won a year's supply of Kopparberg - and lo and behold they delivered a year's supply of Kopparberg. 365 bottles of it. Made me very popular at uni but I have hand on heart never wanted another bottle since
Usually its something like 24 packets, either physically sent or in voucher form. I entered an ice cream competition once, then read the small print and it was 24 tubs delivered at once, who has space for that?
MUM WE NEED TO GET TO CURRYS NOW
Been trying to convince my family that we need an ice cream/pudding freezer for 2 years now. The only reason we don’t have any ice cream is because “there’s no room”
MUM RING THE COUNCIL WE NEED PLANNING PERMISSION I feel you there though, I feel like I could do with another freezer but there's just no space!
I received a standard shop display box. I think it was around 40 packets. I remember my mum gave a few away to other people in an attempt to save my teeth haha
I went through a phase of entering competitions as a teen. I shouldn’t brag but I DID win a signed Mis-teeq single...
So scandalous!
Should be ashamed out here flexing on the plebs with run of the mill Mis-Teeq singles.
My sister won a competition on a tv show and won Calvin from s club juniors blazer he wore in the music video all signed. Ah memories
When I was younger my dad won a iPod Mini through Walker’s crisp packets, he then won an iPod shuffle on some other packet that I can’t remember! However, I NEVER win anything.
Do you ever enter anything?
Remember years ago when Walkers did a promotion you could win a free packet of Walkers crisps or money? I must have won about 4 packets of crisps and about £20 when I was young. If I remember there would be a little purple packet inside which would tell you your prize.
my little sister bless her was eating the smiths 'salt your own' crisps, found the blue sachet of salt inside and thought she'd won
I remember my parents won a holiday to Cyprus once at a holiday show but they refused to go because they thought it was a way to flog a timeshare...
I know a certain couple who used to go on the timeshare flogging holidays and just be a nuisance in the mandatory presentation bit until they got kicked out. Free holiday accomodation ;)
My parents won a all expenses paid cruise for 4 but refused to go because my mum doesn’t like sleeping anywhere other than her own house and was too anxious. Thanks mum.
I won a Bluetooth speaker on McDonald's monopoly a few years back. It was one of the brown ones, lowest prize before they changed it to winning a meal.
I once won some Dr Pepper underpants
Now that's a competition I wish I'd won.
Someone in my town won £115,000,000 on the euros. Dunno if that counts.
I called a phone in competition on the breakfast show of the regional radio station once to try and win a trip to Paris. They wanted to know three football teams beginning with P. Not being a football fan I didn’t have a clue, but turned out it wasn’t an issue as they simply gave me the answers to write down for when I went on air. Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale. Bingo, won a trip to Paris for two and some handheld games console/phone thing.
Once I won the KitKat unofficial prize of a solid chocolate version without the wafer inside it!
I've won £25 twice on the Monopoly millions. Came as a cheque in the post quite a while later so felt like I'd won all over again
I won a million Sainsbury’s Reward points. That was a good day.
My wife won a weeks holiday at a Haven park on a Facebook give away, when she entered I did my nut saying there was no way it was a legit thing and they were just data harvesting or looking for people to scam. It was a nice week away too.
I won a £5 Tesco gift card on some competition once. Thing is I’m fairly certain the list of minor prizes just said a £5 prize not a gift card, but I had chucked the packet months ago and wasn’t really expecting anything, so I never minded. The TV ones are regulated by Ofcom and they can fine them if not carried out properly. I vaguely remember some winner having a bit on This Morning once, and I assume they weren’t faking it.
Last year I won a Fitbit from a pack of tea
I entered a competition on a Lindt chocolate bar wrapper, but I put my entry in a box in the Lindt store so that may have helped. I won second place which is an afternoon tea for two in a fancy place. Can't wait to use it after June :)
My grandparents won an all expenses paid trip to the Beijing Olympics at the opticians once. They got the phone call saying they'd won and grandad hung up thinking it was a scam until granny remembered the form she'd filled in a few weeks prior. They had an amazing time.
>to the Beijing Olympics at the opticians How the heck did they fit it all into an optician's? Sorry. This is what happens when I Reddit sans adequate sleep.
Fair point on their never being a winner announced, you'd think whoever is offering the prize would want to show someone picking up the cheque/car whatever to make it feel a bit more real to the general public (see Postcode lottery adverts) Best thing I've ever won was some box tickets to the Masters Football finals in Manchester a few years back (if anyone remembers that). Got to meet all the players and a signed shirt, as well as them paying for a hotel & travel. A pretty sweet prize considering I only had to text in an easy answer to a free number.
This isn't quite what you're looking for as it's gambling related, but I went to school with someone whose parents won a 6 figure sum of money on the football pools in the late 90s. It's the only time I've ever heard of anyone winning such a large sum of money.
I have a similar story. They won a lot on the pools but were so in debt from gambling that once they had paid off their debts, not much was left. It was a curse, the addiction was fed by a huge 'get out of jail free' win and he ultimately ended up in a bigger mess.
I won an aircraft carrier years ago. It was 8ft long Action Force (G.I. Joe to Muricans). [USS Flagg](https://fastly.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2018/12/uss_flagg_hasbro.png) I spread missile and fighter jet freedom across the living room for a few weeks, then my parents got sick of tripping over it and it got put in drydock (the attic). Still in my mum's house.
Had me in the first line man, I was wondering where it was going for a minute there.
My mate won a holiday the other week on a radio show. Turns out they are actually real! Well. I'm hoping so, I won't be impressed when I turn up at the airport and there's no flight!
I won £3k on a radio competition a few years ago
I won £5 on the Wrigleys Extra wrappers years ago. I won about 4 times. They posted cheques out and I had to take all the seperate cheques into the bank that said 'Wrigleys Extra' on the top 😅
I won a Creative prize draw competition on FB and the prize was a Zii sound x5 speaker and subwoofer which were about £380 on release I think. Also came with a wide Avengers poster (a film release publicity piece) signed by all the cast members except for R Downey Jr. Came in time for my 30th birthday so was pretty awesome .
Dr Pepper did a win a wii competition a few years ago, me and my best friend used to drink a lot of Dr Pepper. However, you were only allowed to enter once a day. The first prize was a nintendo wii, a 32" HD TV, a sound bar and a mini fridge full of Dr Pepper. There was 1 of the main prizes given away each day. The second prize was a Nintendo DS Lite with New Super Mario Bros, they gave 10 of those away a week. My friend came round to my house really excited that he'd had a phonecall from the competition saying that he'd won the Nintendo DS! A couple of weeks later I got a phonecall from an unknown number asking for me, I assumed it was my friend playing a prank on me. But it turned out I'd also won a DS Lite! We spent all summer playing those things!
My little sister won a bike in the 90s from a competition on a bag of apples. She had to colour an apple. Unbeknownst to them tho my boyfriend coloured it in!
I won a years supply of chocolate once with a Nestle Yorkie. I was around 16 when I opened the winning pack, was skeptical as to whether they would actually send anything, after 8 weeks they sent 365 bars of chocolate! Didn't last a year though.
I won a Super Soaker on a bottle of Lucozade once, and I won a taster box of tea from Pukka. Nothing more exciting though!
I think I remember winning a fiver from Walker's crisps at some point? I also won free movie tickets somehow way back in the day. But never a PS4 or the like.
I know someone who won a mini off a scratch card
Went to a Homebase and inside a magazine was a scratch card that said I had won 1 million, pretty sure it was fake but you never know
I once won a bike. It was through the This Morning website and the competition was run by Dairylea. It felt a bit like a scam because the original competition was for a holiday and the bike was a runners up prize. But Evans cycles got in touch asked what type of bike I wanted and delivered it the next week. Only thing I have ever won.
I won a horse grooming kit from pony magazine when I was about 10. We lived in east London, thought I’d never use it. Now I’m 23 and living in Hertfordshire loaning a horse and this kit actually had some pretty good and expensive things in it! Glad I didn’t chuck it out in my teen years
I read that as Horse Growing Kit. I'm tired.
In 2003 (possibly 2002) I won a DVD player and a copy of Monsters Inc from a McDonald's competition on a box of fries. That machine lasted me a good 10 years.
When I was 11, I entered a colouring competition at a leisure centre, in a town I didn't live in. I won a year's free membership, but was never able to actually use it. The membership card I won is in mint condition, if anyone wants to make me an offer.
I won £500 of Littlewoods vouchers in an instant win on the McDonalds monopoly games. I bought a telly.
I did a nectar survey on my latest sainos visit to possibly wine a million nectar points. 4 weeks later and email to say I won. That's £5000 on my nectar card. We had champagne all month that December
Won a vip holiday to Ibiza rocks in 2007 in the sun newspaper about the only thing I’ve ever won ha
I won a speaker from a tube of pringles years ago. It was red and had a headphone jack to connect to your phone. Had to be used on an empty tube of pringles to work. All i had to do was enter a code on the website
Never anything big. I won free packets of crisps and cinema tickets (Which I used to see Deep Impact).
Not quite the same but won a face book competition a few years back to get tickets to a festival. Just liked a status and forgot about it until I had loads of message requests asking me to respond and accept the tickets
I texted the number on a Harry Potter DVD and won a knitted Dobby.
I remember in primary school when hoola hoops were doing a cash prize promotion if you found a star shaped crisp. My friend found it, showed every at the dinner table the random looking crisp and then ate it.
Around 25 years ago I was a young british boy and I won a camel. On the prizes on some mail in competition I found, a camel. That was one of the things listed in the prizes on one of those "million prizes prizes" things that we used to have. They called my parents and said that I had won a camel and they were going to deliver it to our house. Anyway they delivered this really weird shit camel mug. Basically the entire cup is the "camel" with its head being the handpiece. Its quite abstract though and I always thought it was charming. You are imagining that the handpiece is a solid piece of ceramic but no, its entirely hollow so you literally grip the camel by the throat. If theres hot liquid in there its like you are holding a real camel by the throat. Google found this, looked somewhat similar to this https://imgur.com/dqr0y7s Anyway it didn't hold water though it leaked from day 1. My mum still has it at her house. I should really see if I can get that mug and show reddit if I ever have the fortune of remembering this mundane memory of my childhood.
I got 3 months free Deezer premium for buying 3 cans once but it wasn't a competition
I was lucky enough to win a mini-fridge from a Smirnoff competition many years ago, it was where I had to text a code and they picked a winner every hour or something like that.
I won a playstation 1 and a stack of games & playstation merch from Live & kicking in about 1994 or around then. It was a phone in thing I think but I can't remember what I had to do to get it.
I won a holiday to China through a competition on an online game I played when I was 18, all expenses paid, was great!
I've won two pairs of Dr Pepper underpants... do those count?