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What were your best wins in 2009, many thanks to MSE and all posters

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  • mrs_lds
    mrs_lds Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I won, I won, I won!
    I won £25 on premium bonds and a jaeger 125 bag on here. HOw often do most people apply for comps on a daily basis?
  • toejumper
    toejumper Posts: 2,441 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Photogenic Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    edited 17 December 2009 at 10:50PM
    Mine is £20k walkers/morrisons comp
    Sat-Nav
    Nintendo Ds
    Star wars lego
  • kisto
    kisto Posts: 7,075 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Congrats to everyone on some amazing wins this year.

    I only came back to comping again during the summer but my best wins are:

    - Terry Pratchett book launch and signed football shirt
    - Weekend at City Inn Leeds (won last week)!
    - Nintendo DS Lite (won last week)
    :T*Thanks to all who posts comps * :j
  • kittycatty
    kittycatty Posts: 3,036 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    My Bestest wins, umm had quite a few that I love lol

    Top one's are

    Doritos Xbox etc
    Philips Surround Sound System
    Gas BBQ
    Bonkers Cash, which was/is being used for DD's birthday and Xmas pressies

    Last but not least, is the special friends I made on the Play.com comp and Bonkers Comp.
    You know who you all are :j

    Thank you to all posters, this has been an amazing year. Have a wonderful Christmas and a lucky 2010 :j:beer:
    Think it's about time the comping fairy remembered where I am! lol

  • My best wins were

    Snackajacks (lots and lots of wins from the 'must have' comp earlier this year, totalling £1075 in prepaid maestro cards - used these to pay towards a holiday)

    iPhone

    Xbox360 and guitar hero

    I've won lots of other smaller prizes, including a total of around £1k cash, cinema tix, west end show tix,mobile phone and lots of beauty products which I'm thrilled about considering I work full time and am also studying part time (so don't have a load of spare time for comping)

    Well done all posters and best of luck for 2010
    08 wins £3000+ :j09 wins £4408:j2010 (6 months off) £2004:j2011 £10,003 :j 2012 - £6013 :j2013 wins £8500 :j 2014 £5530 so far....
  • Taloolah
    Taloolah Posts: 4,431 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I have had an amazing year and I am delighted with every prize I have won. I would say my top prizes were

    A 7 night luxury spa break in Austria
    32 " LCD TV
    Luxury breaks to London, Edinburgh,Cheltenham and Newcastle.

    Thank you to all posters:T:T:T
    Many thanks to the wonderful staff at Birmingham Childrens Hospital caring for my tiny and very poorly grandson who was born at 29 weeks. Thanks to them he is getting a little stronger every day.:A:A:A
  • RoxyK
    RoxyK Posts: 2,245 Forumite
    Wow haven't we had some amazing wins?

    Mine is easily the £10k Debenhams vouchers which we used to furbish our bungalow that we renovated. Otherwise we would be sitting in an empty home! It paid for all the kitchen appliances, bedroom furniture, amazingly comfy bed, sofa, new HD TVs for all the rooms, Blue Ray & surround sound system plus tons of other stuff for the bungalow. It was amazing being able to buy really good quality items without worrying about the price :D Don't expect I'll ever have that again lol but gosh it was amazing. Only thing is I have a taste for it now :D

    Best wishes to everyone for a great 2010!
    16 x Sanyo HIT 240w panels, 3.84kWp, south facing, 30 degree slope in the SW, 4.4 Eltek HE-t inverter installed 27/03/12 :D
  • My top three of 2009 have been: (so far; I reckon there's still time to win a holiday/weekend/night somewhere lovely to complete my 2009 wishlist :p)

    A gorgeous Welsh blanket which lives at the bottom of my bed and keeps my toes warm. I'd never have bought it for myself - it cost silly money - that's what comping's about for me.

    My fabulous Sony Cybershot camera which arrived as a total surprise. It's something I'd been wanting for a while but was determined to win. It really is a terrific camera too!

    My Robot Chicken T-shirt which draws admiring glances from all who see it. Well, okay, maybe I don't interpret the looks correctly but I think it's a brilliant T-shirt.
    Avoiding plastic, palm oil, UPF and Nestlé
  • IWantToBeFree_2
    IWantToBeFree_2 Posts: 1,831 Forumite
    edited 18 December 2009 at 1:13AM
    Some amazing wins - I only started back comping again in July after a bad end to 2008 and start to 2009 plus planning a wedding, now I am wishing I had never gone away!

    My best win was £200 from Talk Sport and probably the next best was £100 town and country market vouchers - we used some of them at the weekend to buy all the food for Christmas Dinner this year and still have some left over, they don't expire til 31 Dec 2010 so we will probably save them for next years Christmas meat!

    I cherish every win as if it was a million £, its not so much the value of what you win, but every red card that comes through the door, every parcel, every letter, every email and phone call is celebrated like I have won the lottery! Its what keeps me going.

    EDIT - Also meant to say that this win means very much to me - me and OH got married in the summer and this has come as an early Xmas pressie for him for our first christmas as Mr & Mrs:

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    Was skated into the ice at the Tower of London this afternoon!!
  • I've had some great wins this year but my 3 faves are:

    1. Dell PC worth £800 which I gave my parents coz they were using my old banger Acer laptop which would die if the battery was attached :rolleyes:
    2. Tickets to F1 British Grand Prix coz my boyfriend is a big fan. We had a great weekend there.
    3. Tickets to see Pink at MEN Arena with meal at Hard Rock Cafe & VIP Bar.... absolutely LOVE Pink - amazing show :D:D:D

    Hope we're all lucky enough to win more fabby prizes next year :A
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