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Do you remember your first win?
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my first win was a taste card won it this month yay
If I make a mistake with something I post I apologize. We are all humans we all make mistakes.
2011 wins: A years membership to tastecard it was my first competition i entered and i won. :j
2012 wins so far: Magimix 2 Slot Toaster0 -
Mine was a Crayola shark fins drawing case.
That was maybe around 10 or so years ago?
It was an effort comp with the times and i had to draw something (can't remember what.) I think my parents thought i was just wasting my time when i asked them for a stamp so i could post it :rotfl:
I was so happy when a parcel arrived for me out the blue!0 -
Mine was a ski holiday about 4 weeks after I started comping x
I was at work when I got the email and I remember a colleague telling me it was a scam, luckily it wasn't and we had a fab time xThrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
Oh yes (and I wouldn't mind betting that mine will be the weirdest:rotfl:).
I won a kangaroo skin golfing glove as my first prize, and I have been hooked on comping ever since.:rotfl::eek::j DEBT FREE FROM 01/01/11 :j
Declutter 2012 - 191, 2013 - 260 -
back in 2007 when i started entering i won a queen dvd (dont know where it came from) that buzz was so goodJAN WINS- pepsi tshirt,0
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Mine was a bar of chocolate from a cadburys competition, needless to say it has got better!
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i comped only for holidays in the beginning - after about a year of the odd hour at weekends i won a 5 star holiday to Las Vegas and Arizona. Took the bf for our 3 year anniversary. that is what got me totally hooked!! Needless to say the bf has had a few other good holidays with me since then ; ) no wonder we are on our 5 year anniversay next month! :rotfl::rotfl:0
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Mine was a scented candle set which conisted of 2 candles in little pots with flowers on, quite naff I thought :eek: However, it was good to finally win after about 3-4 months of comping
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Oooh yes i thought it was a hoax email (nearly wet my pants when it arrived) an Ipad
two days before Christmas last year xx 0 -
always_comping wrote: »Mine was a bar of chocolate from a cadburys competition, needless to say it has got better!

This was mine too followed by a Mars football. Got better for me too but I still remember the thrill of winning the chocolate.
Thanks everyone who posts comps.Be Lucky Everyone0
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