I started entering competitions back in 2000. Some years I have entered more competitions than others and to date I have won 1109 prizes. I often get asked the questions "What is your best win?" or "What is your favourite win?" so I thought I would share some of my favourite wins with you.
Some compers (people who enter competitions) work out the value of their prizes over a certain time period. but I have never done this. The best prize I have won money wise is £1000 Love2Shop vouchers which I shared with my family and bought myself an iPod Touch and Digital camera. I would love to win a huge sum of money but some of my smaller prizes have made me smile a lot especially if they have made other members of my family happy.
In 2009 I won this huge Me To You bear. There was 100 to be won and they had over 20,000 entries and I was picked as one of the lucky winners. The prize was a launch bear for their new personalised range. When I won I thought it would be a small bear and when it arrived I was so amazed by the size. As soon as I won it I knew it was going to go to my niece Lilly. She was nearly 4 at the time and it took me awhile to decide what to have written on his foot and in the end I thought it would be nice to have "I belong to Lilly-Ana" and her date of birth. Lilly loved him so much that for the first day or so my sister had to lug him around everywhere to show people. Big Bear still sits in Lilly's bedroom to this day though he now wears one of my sisters stretched t-shirts.
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Lilly and Big Bear |
In 2011 I started entering competitions on twitter and one of the prizes was to win £500 cash with Best Western Hotels. Each day they gave a clue to where the hidden golden key was and if you were near it you could go and try and find it. The first person to find it won the cash. When the clue came up I knew exactly where it would be at the Jane Austen Museum in Bath (where I lived at the time). So I rang mum up and asked her to drive me over there as it would have taken too long to walk as someone would get there first. She came straight down and picked me up and dropped me off at the Jane Austen Museum and went to find somewhere to park. The man in costume outside the museum knew I was looking for the key but wasn't allowed to tell me where it was. I looked around and then I thought maybe it was behind the door which was pinned open at the time. The man said "she who dares wins" so I looked and there it was, the golden key. I took it with me and won the cash. I gave half of the money to my mum for driving me there and I returned back to see the lovely man outside the museum and gave him a bottle of champagne.
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Outside the Jane Austen Museum |
Another favourite prize was Lilly's name in lights. I won this in 2012 on twitter. It's so lovely and lights up in all different colours. I love unique prizes.
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Lilly in lights |
For me the prizes I most like to win for myself are gadgets. In the last year and a half I have been very lucky to win three Kindle Fires and 2 iPads as well as a printer and digital camera. I have kept one of the Kindle Fires and gave the rest to members of my family.
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iPad Air prize |
Models Own Makeup Giveaway
One thing I like to do every so often is give back to people who love to enter competitions and now with my new blog I am hoping to be able to give more prizes away. So as I received four lots of Models Own makeup last week I thought it would be nice to give two away to my readers. The first person picked at random via the Rafflecopter will win the pink set (Blooming pink nail polish, pink lip-stix and black lashed-up volumiser mascara) and the second winner will receive the peach set (Golden peach nail polish, peach lip-stix and black lashed-up volumiser mascara).
To enter the competition simply complete as many of the steps as you wish on the Rafflecopter form below. Winners will be chosen at random at the end of the competition. This competition is open to residents of the UK only. Good Luck.
A holiday to Scotland. :)
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DeleteMy best was a fridge freezer about 2 years ago.x
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DeleteI won an iPad mini with a Talk Sport. Ironic as I am the most unsporty person ever lol! Thanks, Tressa Lapham-Green
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Delete7 handbags from House of Fraser
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Deletea tour of the thorntons factory and the chance to make my invented chocolate
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DeleteChampagne Hot Air Balloon flight for two from buyagift is one of my best prizes followed by various gadgets since I started my hobby in 2009. :)
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Delete£500 trolley dash, it was so much fun!
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Deletea car, must be about six or seven years ago now
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DeleteA day with a Rally team and a ride through the track with Jari-Matti Latvala
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I would love to win a new laptop for my mum. Well done. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteA 2 week P&O cruise to the Canary Islands
ReplyDeleteLovely win bet that was relaxing. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteIn highest value it was a Citroen Estate car which I won on a trip to BBC Gardeners World at the NEC.
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DeleteVIP trip to closing few days events/closing ceremony London 2012
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DeleteA trip to paris
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DeleteMy best prize was a few years ago when I won with Warburtons bread and the prize was 4 mountain bikes and a £100 voucher for Halfords!
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Deletean 40 inch TV :D
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DeleteA toy crane for my nephew xx
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DeleteA full size sample of Olay Regenerist Complexion Corrector.
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DeleteStill not won anything yet, but only been comping for 6 weeks, so fingers crossed!! Xxx
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DeleteDigital camera and a lot of kit to go with it...I gave it to my photography mad daughter for her 18th birthday
ReplyDeleteAww brilliant prize. What a lovely present I bet she loved it. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
Delete£500-worth of Next homeware. I was in shock when I got the email to say I'd won!
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DeleteFab! Bet you bought some nice goodies with that. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
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DeleteA very nice steel cookware set.
ReplyDeleteFab! I won some cookware items before. Very handy. Thanks for entering and good luck.
DeleteA midweek break last year to Bluestone, Pembrokeshire. Was a much needed holiday :)
ReplyDeleteWell done. Glad you had a nice holiday. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteVouchers because I enjoy spending them
ReplyDeleteI love winning vouchers too. Well done. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteTickets to the Brand New Heavies and a meet and greet with them. They were so lovely and absolutely brilliant with my young son!
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Deletea 47 inch sony tv :) x
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DeleteA trip to Disneyland Paris :)
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DeleteA Leapfrog tea set.
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DeleteA weeks holiday in LA
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DeleteBest and worse, a £3,000 wedding dress, for my Daughter, lovely wedding, six months later, her other half left her pregent, and moved in with his new girl friend
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Deletethe only twitter comp ive ever won was a blackberry smartphone!!
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Delete£100 worth of vouchers :)
ReplyDeleteVouchers are always handy. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
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DeleteA limited Edition Sir Peter Blake Print - Reasons To Be Cheerful
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Delete£150 cheque from Experian :-)
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DeleteA weekend in Cannes
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Delete£1,000's worth of products to build my own pond - I can choose whatever I want, so am in the process of big plans!! :-D Congratulations on your wins - I am especially loving Lilly's name in lights - so unique and colourful!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. Have fun making that. Lilly in lights is so lovely, she has it on when she is in bed. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
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ReplyDeleteWow amazing win well done. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteI got a phone call today to say that I had won a 40 inch telly, a playstation 4 and a game to go with it! (I still cant quite believe it)
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Deletemorrisons easter hamper and £150 vouchers
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DeleteA forest holiday that i go on in two weeks! whooop!
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DeleteOoh, that's difficult. I think either my personalised John Lewis shopping bag, or a signed Mary Berry cookbook.
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DeleteA dress from Yumi on FB, they are one of my favourite brands and I got to pick any item from their website. :D
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DeleteA YEAR SUPPLY OF BEER
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Delete£3k from Take a Break!! Used it for a holiday to Hong Kong
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DeleteiPhone 5C! :)
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Deletea 2 night break in Brighton
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DeleteA helicopter ride over London.
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DeleteA Holiday to St Lucia! :)
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Delete£1000 and a Blackberry :)
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DeleteA weekend in Oxford
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Deletea 6 months supply of fabric conditioner and non bio gel and a new baby hamper all in one comp :)
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DeleteI never win anything but I was lucky enough to win a beauty box once :) x
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Delete£1000 spend at Atterley Road
ReplyDeleteFab. Hope you had fun spending. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteI just won a £200 tent :) and will be donating it to the local Scout group.
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Deletea cookbook :)
ReplyDeleteWell done. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteI won shopping vouchers just before Christmas. I think it was some sort of reward for all the careful budgeting and planning I'd been doing in the previous months.
ReplyDeleteWell done. Always nice to win something like that around Christmas. Thanks for entering my competition and good luck.
DeleteTickets to a very important chelsea match, my hubby and son were over the moon x
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ReplyDeleteA goody Bag from Cosmopolitan
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ReplyDeletea new washing machine :)
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ReplyDeleteVIP tickets to Wimbledon...so far ;)
ReplyDeleteAn iPad mini
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ReplyDeletea tutu for my daughter
ReplyDelete£500 john lewis voucher!
ReplyDeleteI haven't won anything as of yet, but remaining positive!
ReplyDelete100 of love to shop vouchers right before my daughters birthday
ReplyDeleteA year's supply of tea :-)
ReplyDelete£100 in Superdrug Vouchers! :)
ReplyDeleteI have won a few lovely prizes but the best was probably a combination of a couple of prizes in december which allowed me to give my mum a really lovely birthday weekend in London. I won afternoon tea in a boutique hotel with a £50 harrods voucher so we had afternoon tea, then mum splurged in harrods and then I had also won dinner for two at Armadillo at the O2. We were so shocked to arrive and find we had £100 to spend! Was sooo much fun!
ReplyDelete4 tickets to Alton Towers
ReplyDeletemy dream trip to new york trouble is i want to win again to go back!
ReplyDeleteLittle Tikes 4-in-1 Sports Edition Trike
ReplyDeleteI haven't entered so many competitions, so my best prize was 2 tickets to the screening of Keeping Mum movie. I loved it.
ReplyDeleteI won a box of shreddies last week :) hehe xx
ReplyDeleteMy best prize was £250 cash,doesn't sound much money,but came is so handy as I won it near Christmas last year
ReplyDeleteWe won tickets to the Olympics with Visa - and a hotel stay. It is something we couldnt have afforded (especially as we took our teenage daughter along) - for her it was a once in a lifetime experience - I doubt we will ever have the games in the UK again in our lifetimes. So was utterly brilliant :) #priceless
ReplyDeleteTickets to JT and nights accommodation in a swish double suite
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ReplyDeleteI've won some lovely little prizes in the last two years since I've been comping, all very welcome, two days ago I won a fisher price little people disney princess bundle, palace, coach and set of little people, which I am over the moon with, it will be kept for xmas for my granddaughter, she will love it!
ReplyDeletejust before christmas (2013) i won a Ipad Air
ReplyDeleteHi Ellen, I won a overnight stay in London, I'd never been to London so was mega excited.
ReplyDeleteIt consisted of a night for two couples in a posh (5*) hotel with breakfast & full body massages for us. Also had VIP entry to a night club, with a £250 bar tab, we didn't manage to spend it all, but we did give it a good go, we was trying all sorts of cocktails out. We stayed another night in London, but not at the same hotel (a £300 per room, our budget wouldn't meet it, but we managed a Travellodge LOL) We went to see the Lovely Sarah Lancashire in a play called "Betty Blue Eyes" my first West End Play. Was a lovely weekend away with my son & DIL, We often talk about it.
A £22,000 Suzuki SX4 S-Cross car, & our £7000 honeymoon to St Lucia - LOVE this hobby!
ReplyDeletea campervan tent for my daughter x
ReplyDeleteI won a lovely Autoglym Valet case that my other half was very happy with ♥
ReplyDeleteMy best win was 1 million Nectar points (£5000). I used most of it Argos.
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