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What has been your favourite win of 2011?... :)

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  • had some nice wins this year but my favourite was a pair of GHD boho chic straighteners that just arrived, I also had great fun spending the £500 worth of airport vouchers
    best wins: £750, Bugaboo Bee £500 BAA Vouchers, GHD's XBox Kinect & Wii
    October Nintendo Wii Mario Kart & Just Dance 4
  • My favourite win of 2011 is my Iphone 4s. I have yearned for an iPhone ever since they were introduced but could never justify the cost. To actually win one just before xmas was lovely.

    Can I thank everyone who posts competitions for their generosity and time. I also wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year!! If its a lucky one too - then thats even better. x
    Live, Love and be Happy
  • hayleyw1
    hayleyw1 Posts: 20,911 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    havent been able to comp as much as i used to after having my beautiful lil boy james,


    but mine has to be
    my £1000 win from anchor
    and my 2 x £250 from pepsi which i am using for us to have our first family holiday x

    thank you to all posters x :beer:
    R.I.P TO THE MOST AMAZING MAN PUT ON THIS EARTH! MY DAD XX 13/03/2010 love and miss you so much xxjan wins, uki goodies,necklace, case wkd, thomas goodies, sterilizer, 2 pairs boot, earings
  • Taloolah
    Taloolah Posts: 4,431 Forumite
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    Mine favourite was a 7 night trip to Ibiza inc spending money ,we won just after we decided that we couldnt afford a holiday next year, now we can and we are delighted thank you Weeowens it was your post that made it possible.
    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
  • Got to have two...a trip to LA for 4 which we're taking next year and aVIP day to Anfield and Melwood
  • Amy83
    Amy83 Posts: 451 Forumite
    edited 31 December 2011 at 1:24AM
    My favourite win of 2011 was, without a doubt, the 6 flight tickets from British Airways/T-Mobile to be 'reunited with someone'.

    Most of my extended family live in Canada, and with flight tickets being as costly as they are, we hadn't been in years. I was lucky enough to go over 2 years ago, but most of my family hadn't seen each other for at least 7 years. It was the odd phonecall and keeping in touch mainly on Facebook.

    But in January I learnt that I'd won return flights for 6 people to Toronto....gobsmacked doesn't come close. My Mum, Dad, brother, sister in law, nephew, boyfriend were all going to Canada (yes ok, that's 7 people, my parents were that elated that they ended up paying for 1 ticket so nobody was left out)

    It was absolutely AMAZING. My Grandad is nearly 95, he was able to meet my nephew who's 3, for the very first time. The look on my Grandad's face when he scooped my nephew into his arms is incomparable...I'll not forget it in a long long time, and spending an entire 2 weeks with my aunties, uncles, cousins and all the extended family, truly was a dream come true!

    When comping can do SUCH a wonderful thing as reuniting families across the globe, well, I salute you comping fairy!

    Good luck for 2012 everyone, hope you all have a wonderful year.
    Aiming for that elusive 'debt free' by Christmas 2012
    :rudolf: [STRIKE]£6,000[/STRIKE] £4,279 and counting... #217 paid off £1721 :rudolf:

    23.01.2012 - Started diet (Weight loss 22 / 31lbs)
  • For me it was a weekend in Spain, second best was a weekend in Finland. Won a lot of tech toys so impossible to choose a third :)

    Worst was a jinxed weekend in Sweden, flight out delayed so arrived very late at night, injured my leg 7am on the first morning and couldn't leave the hotel for the entire weekend, and then the flight home was cancelled and had to stay another night. Complete disaster!
    “D’you know what a loser is?
    A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning, they don’t even try.”

    Grandpa Hoover
    Little Miss Sunshine
  • the leapad i won for my daughter - not the highest value item i won, but the one that meant most as i wouldnt have been able to afford one for xmas with out winning it!
  • I won a weeks holiday in a 5* Hotel in Cyprus inc flights and transfers. We booked it for our anniversairy and when we got there we found out that we had won a week in one of their really expensive rooms with its own private pool :eek: It was amazing, I felt like a millionaire for the week.

    I've also won some other amazing things this year. I'm off to spend £500 Thomas Cook vouchers this morning on hubbys birthday present for July, I've had loads of baby stuff for hopefully (touch wood!! fingers crossed) when our IVF works this year and I've also had a £6000 payout for mis sold PPI which is helping towards IVF we have needed for 6 years (Thank you MSE - I love you) :blushing:

    Thank you for everyone who posts competitions on here. I only manage to post the odd one as I'm really short on time. Wishing everyone loads of luck for next year :beer:
    Thanks to everyone who posts the comps :A
  • indie
    indie Posts: 3,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    My favourite win was a £20 cheque from the Utterley Buttery comp. It was my first win and one I will never forget.
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