4meAndyou · F
Yes, I won the blue ribbon first prize at two science fairs in Jr. High, and then I won an art contest in which the prize was senior high school admission to a summer class at Mass Art...
AND as an adult I went to a trade show for Cotter and Company in Manchester, NH, and I won a small chest style FREEZER! As we came in the door each manager was given a key to unlock a prize, so I gave my key to my son...and he hung out near the prizes WITH my key...and he was HUGELY excited when my key WON!!! He felt like HE was the winner!
AND as an adult I went to a trade show for Cotter and Company in Manchester, NH, and I won a small chest style FREEZER! As we came in the door each manager was given a key to unlock a prize, so I gave my key to my son...and he hung out near the prizes WITH my key...and he was HUGELY excited when my key WON!!! He felt like HE was the winner!
MellyMel22 · F
While I was a nail tech student(16), I won 2nd place in a big competition for nail art(hand painting). My theme was weddings b/c I loved all diff white tips w/ different nail art designs around them. The competition included experienced nail techs and nail tech students all over New York w/ air brush designs and hand painting.
DragonFruit · 70-79, M
Yes, I won a spelling bee when I was in 8th grade....they told me I'd be going to the State championship, but I declined because I had something else planned. My classmate who finished 2nd in our school spelling bee was sent to the State capitol, and ended up finishing 2nd in the State!
I've also won a few tennis tournaments and a ping pong tournament.
I've also won a few tennis tournaments and a ping pong tournament.
cyberdude28 · 31-35, M
BrandonWyatt36 · 36-40, M
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Ashleighrox · 31-35, F
beermeplease · M
thepeculiarpanda · 36-40, M
Ambroseguy80 · 56-60, M
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
I won a raffle at work in March. Two hours off (paid ).
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Interesting question, or I should say interesting interpretations on how people responded: some immediately went to winning material things, others to winning competitive contests.
I have to acknowledge that I have been very fortunate to have won things in every imaginable context. I've won spelling bees and scholarships; the closest I ever got to playing competitive sports was a darts league and once I won that, never played competitive darts again; and have won material things from a week's use of a Commodore Computer -- remember them? -- when home computing was just starting, to a brand new Corvette. I should put parentheses around "won" on the Corvette, since the income tax, sales tax, registration and licensure fees amounted to more than I spent for my Prius.
I have to acknowledge that I have been very fortunate to have won things in every imaginable context. I've won spelling bees and scholarships; the closest I ever got to playing competitive sports was a darts league and once I won that, never played competitive darts again; and have won material things from a week's use of a Commodore Computer -- remember them? -- when home computing was just starting, to a brand new Corvette. I should put parentheses around "won" on the Corvette, since the income tax, sales tax, registration and licensure fees amounted to more than I spent for my Prius.
eyeno · M
Newspaper Carrier of the month
Newspaper contest
Bible from Church
First Service Award given in a Hotels Beverage Dept. history
Contested Court case
Newspaper contest
Bible from Church
First Service Award given in a Hotels Beverage Dept. history
Contested Court case
HumanEarth · F
Chicken calling contest at the state fair, ended up on radio, TV and in the newspaper in 1988
$12 dollars off the lottery
I won 2 weeks in jail because I didn't want to pay a ticket 🤣🤣🤣
$12 dollars off the lottery
I won 2 weeks in jail because I didn't want to pay a ticket 🤣🤣🤣
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
alongalone · M
I won a pair of Pentax binoculars in the 1980 Orange Crush sweepstates. Was 16 was trying to win a Datsun 280ZX
swirlie · 31-35, F
When I was 6 months old, my mother entered me in a local baby contest... and I won 1st Prize 🥇...which has always been an embarrassment for me anytime someone in our family brings it up... and no, I wasn't inspired to take up professional Modeling as a result of my first and only win, not counting the few I won in university pubs judged by many men who were very drunk.
Then when I was 21, my sisters and I drove across the Canada/US border crossing at Detroit Michigan to do a day of shopping like most Canadians use to do who lived near the border who all thought that grass was greener on the other side of the border.
While we were gassing up our car with cheap gas at the 7-11 gas bar, I ran inside to buy some cheap milk to take home with us in an ice chest we had in the car's trunk. While I was paying for the milk, the girl being the counter asked me if I wanted to buy a PowerBall ticket?
I didn't know what PowerBall was, so she explained to me that it was like a scratch-and-win lottery that's held across the USA all the time, so I said okay and bought a ticket. If I won however, it would mean coming back across the border to claim my prize. So I paid cash for the ticket and never even knew what I was buying or how much the PowerBall prize was at the time.
Arriving back in Canada that same day, I put the ticket on a cork pin board in my mom's kitchen to remind someone to watch the PowerBall results in the USA to see if we won. Turns out, my mom made it her business to check my ticket and when I got the phone call from her a week later, I had to sit down on the floor before I fell down. Turns out, I won $800,000 USD in PowerBall.
When we made the 20 minute drive back across the border to Detroit to claim the prize, the first thing the lottery people told me was that the US government charges 50% tax on all lottery winnings made by US Citizens.
I then informed the lottery people that I was not an American citizen and that I was a Canadian citizen visiting the USA for the day.
Under those circumstances then, the US government cannot tax Canadians for American lottery winnings, so they had no choice but to cut me a check for the entire $800Gs tax-free.
I took the check back across the border after a Wells Fargo truck delivered the check itself to the border crossing, then presented it to me after confirming my identification. I then threw the check in the glove box of my car and drove straight to the bank and deposited the whole thing tax-free into my savings account at the bank in Windsor Ontario Canada, which is located on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.
It was a pretty good score considering I don't normally buy lottery tickets and I never even knew what PowerBall was, but then won on my first ticket! 😄
Then when I was 21, my sisters and I drove across the Canada/US border crossing at Detroit Michigan to do a day of shopping like most Canadians use to do who lived near the border who all thought that grass was greener on the other side of the border.
While we were gassing up our car with cheap gas at the 7-11 gas bar, I ran inside to buy some cheap milk to take home with us in an ice chest we had in the car's trunk. While I was paying for the milk, the girl being the counter asked me if I wanted to buy a PowerBall ticket?
I didn't know what PowerBall was, so she explained to me that it was like a scratch-and-win lottery that's held across the USA all the time, so I said okay and bought a ticket. If I won however, it would mean coming back across the border to claim my prize. So I paid cash for the ticket and never even knew what I was buying or how much the PowerBall prize was at the time.
Arriving back in Canada that same day, I put the ticket on a cork pin board in my mom's kitchen to remind someone to watch the PowerBall results in the USA to see if we won. Turns out, my mom made it her business to check my ticket and when I got the phone call from her a week later, I had to sit down on the floor before I fell down. Turns out, I won $800,000 USD in PowerBall.
When we made the 20 minute drive back across the border to Detroit to claim the prize, the first thing the lottery people told me was that the US government charges 50% tax on all lottery winnings made by US Citizens.
I then informed the lottery people that I was not an American citizen and that I was a Canadian citizen visiting the USA for the day.
Under those circumstances then, the US government cannot tax Canadians for American lottery winnings, so they had no choice but to cut me a check for the entire $800Gs tax-free.
I took the check back across the border after a Wells Fargo truck delivered the check itself to the border crossing, then presented it to me after confirming my identification. I then threw the check in the glove box of my car and drove straight to the bank and deposited the whole thing tax-free into my savings account at the bank in Windsor Ontario Canada, which is located on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.
It was a pretty good score considering I don't normally buy lottery tickets and I never even knew what PowerBall was, but then won on my first ticket! 😄
Alyosha · 36-40, M
No.