Comp prizes as gifts...

dc64

I don't give things I've won as presents I just share my good luck. I think I'd feel a bit cheap giving my wins as gifts.:(

Hard_Working_Mum

I don't feel cheap and I do it all the time. I have given some of my prizes to people I know will appreciate them because I enjoy putting smiles on peoples faces.

I've also collected up some of my smaller wins & added them to a main present, then made them into a beautiful hamper for birthdays because I enjoy putting it all together & spending time working on them. They have gone down a right treat this year without costing me the Earth.

snakepilsen

Hard_Working_Mum wrote: »

I don't feel cheap and I do it all the time.

Different strokes for different folks

gizmobenny

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

i will probably be slaughtered for saying this, but IMO i wouldnt give winnings as birthday/christmas presents cos I think people expect you to have put a bit of thought into it ... unless it is something that someone really wants.

giving a perfume to my mum just cos i've won it doesnt really do it for me.

its not about spending money on people, it is, as they say, the thought that counts.

I do think about the person I would like to win for as I actually enter. My friends who follow their genealogy have had tickets to the "Who do you think you are show" My caravanning friends get tickets to the Caravan shows. My grandchildren are totally spoilt and get massive goody bags at Christmas and lovely treats throughout the year.. Alton Towers, Zoo visits etc.
I love my comping hobby and a lot of the fun is surprising my friends with treats.. best one this year was an all inclusive skiing holiday for four in the French Alps. It was fantastic to phone our close friends and say "Fancy a free week in France ?"

Blulu

I do this quite a lot and always tell them proudly. So far, I've only ever received positive responses. Perhaps it's the way it's said. I enter for specific comps to give people something special for their birthday or whatever. So when I give them something like that and say that I've won it, I say it so that they know it took time and thought. It's much, much easier to buy someone something, then it is to win them something. So I think, if anything, that people should be more grateful, certainly not less.

Blu X

Makeandsave

I won a T-shirt and they sent a medium size which does not fit me. I ended up giving it to a friend he knew i won it, This was just a random gift he was over the moon about it and thanked me lots. If i win something i do not want i will swap/sell and if not gift it to a friend. If they turn there nose up i will just explain it was that or nothing has funds are very tight and it is the thought that counts.

Emily93

I definitely would have taken the dress back and put it on eBay. Some people are of the mind that if you don't spend any money on them, you haven't "tried hard enough". My youngest brother is the same, if I won an Xbox One and gave it to him, he wouldn't appreciate it because he wouldn't see it as anything of monetary value because I didn't spend any money on it.

hamsterfan1

I've give wins to family as presents & I have a box full in the back bedroom for christmas - if I didn't to this it would be one small present each instead of loads & the kids know this & they appreciate it

CheCazzo

Seems to me that you're all going wrong in TELLING people you've won these things! Silence is your friend in this situation:rotfl::rotfl:

angiesandhu

I gave my sister an expensive thing once and she asked if i won it and i got offended but she quickly added that she hoped i DID win it as it was so expensive she didnt want me to spend that much money.

The way i see it is i spend my time and effort thinking about what to enter for different people so if they dont appreciate it, then i wont give them the nice things next time. They will just get what i can afford. Their loss!