After reading about how the M & M girls failed to win a contest, I was wondering...

C

charlie

Well-known member
have any of you won a contest.

I did.

When I was a young lad.

Now I'll date myself.

I entered the "Name this show" contest on the Wild Bill Hickok show.

A couple of box tops from Sugar Pops cereal was all I needed to enter.

They gave a synopsis of the show and you had to come up with a title.

Mine was "The fur thieves of Hootowl Pass".

Won second prize--- a 24inch Black and White Motorola TV set. I thought life would be a piece of cake for a wordsmith like me.

Oh--I broke a corner off the set one afternoon by swinging a baseball bat in the living room. Easy come Easy go. LOL.

 
My sister & I used to win albums from the local college radio call-in quiz show.

Our mom was a social studies and English teacher:)

Other than that just UIL medals for violin playing.

 
I won a world globe back in the 60's with a question to "Ask Andy" in the local paper and 15 years

later, I won $3,333.33 (I was on a team of six guys who split 20K) on a game show called "The Better Sex" (your joke here.) Since then, nada.

 
Yes, I was 16, modelling, won a nice shirt. Since, just a lottery. Not big enough. Lottery not shirt

 
I won a free cruise to Alaska -

the only problem was it was a re-positioning cruise, so it was only one way. By the time we added in airfare and hotel, the free cruise was going to cost quite a few $$$, so we ended up not taking it.

 
I won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes

...unfortunately it wasn't one of the top prizes. It was a pale green enamel circle pin. I was maybe 7 at the time. I was sure I'd get a fancy house, but no. Since then, no, nuttin', nada. Shot the whole winning shebang on that darn circle pin. I still have it, as a remembrance of the only thing I ever won.

 
I won the Grand Prize for Ever-Ready Battery: Week for 4 at Breckenridge, CO.

Here's how:

I went to college late in life (age 37) and was living on school loans. At 39, I transferred to Univ of Florida to finish my engineering courses where everyone rides a bicycle on campus. Having little money I bought a used one at the Police Auction sale. Campus rules require a light on the bike--otherwise it's a $35 fine. I had no money for fines so I bought a flashlight and bungie'd it to the handlebars. With the flashlight came a $2 rebate. I had no money, so of course, I sent in the rebate.

Turns out the rebate form was also the entry for their contest.

I won.

All expenses paid for four at Keystone Resort, including airfare, hotel, lift tickets, ski rentals, either a car rental or chauffer to/from airport (2 hours away) plus $1000 cash.

Here's how you know if you ACTUALLY won a contest:
1. The notification form will be sent certified mail and you will have to sign for it in person.
2. Everyone who is included in the prize (myself and my three guests) must submit a notarized form including social security numbers, etc (for tax purposes).
3. You will receive another certified document with a $1000 check inside from the nice people at Ever-Ready Battery.

I took Larry, my mother and my MIL. They flew in from Pittsburgh and L & I flew in from Florida. We met in Denver and were chauffered to the resort.

I sent $250 home to each of the moms for extraneous expenses and the rest to pay for a rotating dinner. We had appetizers in one restaurant, then were transferred to a beautiful log cabin for dinner and then rode by horse-drawn stagecoach (is that redundant?) through the woods to another inn for dessert. It was to be a sleigh-ride but there wasn't enough snow. Of course, it snowed while we were having dinner.

Larry rode shotgun while we ladies sat inside under fur blankets.

 
Great story!

Incidentally, Keystone is where we're taking my folks for a few days next month for their anniversary--been going there as a family since '89. smileys/smile.gif

 
I have won a few recipe contests...

Grand Prize Cook's Country Chicken Salad $500
Runner-up Better Homes and Garden $200
two Grand Prizes Better Recipes $1000
Grand Prize Bays English Muffins $500
Runner-up Cook's Country Holiday Cookie contest
3rd place San Diego Union Potato recipe contest $200
Poster contest won a dress

The more you enter, the more often you win.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top