things you only have by comping

Zanzib

My husband's laptop- actually my first competition win.

Previously I had to share my desktop with him, so I didn't mind giving the win to him.

tandydadder

A Mulberry handbag. I could never afford one.

claire21

I like things you can't buy like experiences that give me memories.

One element of big prize package was a shoe making workshop, fantastic day with just myself and a friend and the designer, my friend enjoyed it so much she took her step daughter back to London on another course to make her wedding shoes. (I will only wear my shoes in dry weather and I'm going to be most of the night on carpet as I don't want to scuff them lol)

Lunch at the Ivy with Davina McColl - I'm a big foodie and she was lovely

A cooking day with 6 winners and their guest to cook with Jamie Oliver, that's where I met Brownhandbag on here and we became good friends.

Probably the one thing I wouldn't have ever bought myself is a £80 diary, that I still feel odd about writing in !

A new brand to me was Thomas J Fudge when I won a hat box of their foodie stuff, loved how it came and have sent more as presents to people.

tolly16

The iPad I'm on now and a beautiful Tissot watch for my husband worth £350 which I could never afford to buy

Blueyez

tandydadder wrote: »

A Mulberry handbag. I could never afford one.

I'd love a Mulberry bag. Only seen two comps last year for a Mulberry and one so far this year.



What bag did you win? (sorry to sound cheeky)

toniq

£1000 Gina shoes are one of my fave wins ever, wore them on my wedding day.

toniq

Oddest thing was the anal beads that I won as part of a goody bag from the film choke, They were in a regular envelope and as postie pushed them through letter box the envelope split, my son then quite young shrieked "look mum a necklace!"..........

I grabbed them and said "shame it's broken" and promptly binned them.

I read more carefully what's included in goody bags these days.

brownhandbag

Toniq, I remember when you won those shoes!

Claire21 Yes cooking with Jamie was super and I agree, friends made on winner events are top of my list of "things you only have by comping"

Also on my list is an iRobot vacuum cleaner, super thing which I would never have bought, an ikettle which we use as a standard one. Handmade liberty knickers worth £42.50, so pretty!

toniq

I would love an irobot, thought about buying one but the £600+ for the decent models put me off, So I spent £250 on a miele and within 2 weeks won a top end cordless dyson!

One hoover downstairs one upstairs lol.

x

Donnylover

hamsterfan1 wrote: »

not the things you wouldn't buy like a top of the range cooker, but the odd things, for instance I have 2 wicker picnic hampers

For some strange reason I've always wanted one of those lol :rotfl: