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What has been your best prize to date?

I am not talking necessarily about the most valuable.. but have you won something that you really needed.. or came in really handy? Or just something that you were absolutely delighted with!

I would love to hear about it :)

And of course what the most unbelievable and gobsmacking prize was!
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  • comping_cat
    comping_cat Posts: 24,006 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    The Nintendo Wii i won this time last year - saved our xmas (couldnt afford to buy one) and my childrens faces when they saw it on Christmas day will live with me forever!!!!
  • Mips
    Mips Posts: 19,796 Forumite
    catowen wrote: »
    The Nintendo Wii i won this time last year - saved our xmas (couldnt afford to buy one) and my childrens faces when they saw it on Christmas day will live with me forever!!!!

    Oh wow I bet.. that's brilliant Cat :)

    I bet you were absolutely over the moon.. as much as the children were :D
    :cool:
  • elizabethp
    elizabethp Posts: 76,442 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I won £1000 in March this year, which enabled me to buy my laptop :)
    Liz xx
  • My biggest so far was a Sex and the City Style Comp.
    Which included...>>>

    Premier to film
    Hotels rooms x 2 ( friends included)
    Meal and Drinks at Restuarant & Nightclub
    Samsonite suitecase
    £100 Wallis Vouchers
    £100 Coast Vouchers
    £50 Monsoon Voucher
    Sex & City DVD Boxset
    Fruits & Passion Pamper set

    They even took a pic of me for their website:D
    Comping & Coupons!
  • JoJoB
    JoJoB Posts: 2,080 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    How perfect is that Cat?!!

    I won a 40" sony bravia with home cinema system after only 2 months of comping, was so chuffed! No room for it in my flat though so flogged it to a pub and the money came in very handy as I was about to give birth and had loads of stuff still to get.

    The other week I was really happy to win the baby dummy thermometer as i was about to go out and buy one over the weekend, so was well pleased with what postie brought.
    2015 wins: Jan: Leeds Castle tickets; Feb: Kindle Fire, Years supply Ricola March: £50 Sports Direct voucher April: DSLR camera June: £500 Bingo July: £50 co-op voucher
  • Munchkim
    Munchkim Posts: 5,447 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    Mine was the red letters day voucher; we'd been saying we'll get a new TV next year once our debts are cleared, it was the £1000 voucher so I traded it for a 40" full HD Sony Bravia and it's lovely, so much better than what we would have had by saving and we got it early too :D
    Just become FTBs & Aiming to be mortgage free by 2034 :wink:

    Thank you to all who post on the comps/freebies forums
    you've helped us save our deposit :money:
  • avocetgirl
    avocetgirl Posts: 655 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    My 40" Samsung Flat Screen Tv......Which arrived today!P8010006.jpg
  • poohbear1
    poohbear1 Posts: 10,502 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Snap avocetgirl. Mine looks the same but 37". Arrived Tuesday but DH was away till today. I'm so happy with it.

    But my best win this year was winning £500 virgin voucher on Snap. It went towards a trip to euro disney for me, DH and my two girls. We had a fantastic time.
    JUNE: Wine - DVD :j
  • maria08k
    maria08k Posts: 268 Forumite
    Best win was a digital camera 7 mega pix :) I already had one, and my mums was only 3 mega pix and took pictures only werthy for crime watch, i gave it to her as a surprise and she cried :)

    She has since captured her holiday photos and pics of her grandson :)
    2008 Total: £3232.46!!
    Jan 09: £289.95Feb:£39.99 March: £274.99 April: Guinot travel set £50,Liz Earle Hot Polish £12.50,Bamboo socks £13,Hoppop changing bag £55,Um Bongo juice & T.shirt £54.99,Confessions Of A Shopaholic Book £5.50 May: Nothing :(June: Premiere tickets to Public Enemies:eek::D, Betterware cleaning kit
  • ella87310
    ella87310 Posts: 2,930 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I think my best win was a dyson hand held hoover which I bought thanks to big snap, it is so handy and I have always wanted one.
    I just wished I had one when my 2 eldest boys were babies, with baby no 3 it is a godsend, I can follow him around picking the crumbs straight up now lmao :rotfl:
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