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Have you ever won anything?

  • Yes, and I loved my prize

  • Yes, and I hated my prize

  • No, I am a loser

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ive won all sorts of things
won 3 contests here on the BOC netting me a nice used penn reel
some suffix line and some DannyKings punch bait
all these were awesome wins.
ive won a few small scratch off tickets
one of the most disapointing wins was when my wife and i first met we
went to her works christmas party and we were entered into a drawing and left before the announcement of the winners.

yeah i won the 24 inch color tv and wasnt there to claim it so they gave it to someone else:crazy: .
i guess i really didnt lose too much cause we left early for................
lets just say we were really in love back then:big_smile:
 
I won a few fishing derbies before for small cash.

I won a few times in Vegas and the casinos in Ca, including about 22,000 for the year of 2002 total.

I won in one derby we had in the BOC.

Also in 1996 I almost became a millionaire but was one number off. I got 5 out of 6 numbers with the missing number only being 2 away. I got 1300 for that instead of the 7 million that night.

Needless to say I have not gambled much in years nor play the lottery as much. But I still love to partake in fishing derbies.
 
I got an "Our Lady of Guadalupe" throw pillow at a christmas family giveaway.

I am not from mexico... nor is anyone else in the famiyl

I am not catholic.... again, no is anyone else in the family.

I am having a garage sale though real soon, if that explains my attitude toward said pillow.

I mean... in the best of intentions, what am I gonna do? Put my butt on the virgin Mary's embroidered icon? Isnt there a special level of hell for people who do that?

And if I display it, folks will think Im catholic and all the chotchkis that go along with being catholic will begin rolling in... and I dont need reeds or crucifixes or beads or rosaries or the picture of the lil boy facing left with his hands together or the girl facing right or the old man with his head slumped into his hands or the "footprints" thing or plastic jesus, or the mary air fresheners or the little droppers of holy water... It doesnt go well with Ukrainian folk art that I have at home anyhow. It WAY opens a pandora's box for me. Im happy I got something but feel very uncomfortable with a pillow like that.
Good thread.

lol
 
Jen, I am a winner, you know how I know this, I wake up every morning looking forward to what is instore for me that day. You know when you can see the blessing that are around you, that's when you know that you are a winner. Yes I have won a couple of BOC contest, but life is the biggest contest of all. I look at my children and see the things that I thought were important in life, and seeing them makeing the right dission, that makes me proud of life. So, I am a Winner by Gods Grace.
 
I said I was a loser, but after thinking about it I have won things. I won a 1/5 of Makers Mark in a golf scramble and yes I did love my gift. It didn't have time to collect dust. The same scramble the following year I won a Brita water filter. I didn't have a Brita so I didn't like it. I have won several hands of Texas Holdem. Ed McMahon keeps telling me that I won a bunch of $$ from some sweepstakes, but I still haven't recieved it. And I probably would say that I won the end results of my divorce.
 
Mutt said:
I won a keel shield here on the BOC about the only thing I ever won worth anything and now that the weather is getting nice and warm I will get in touch with Delta Lover and see when he wants to get toghter and put his and mine on lol.
LOL, I was just looking at mine today, lets do it!
Lets see, I won a parasailing pass on Monterey Bay from a clothing store, 3 days two night ski package in tahoe from a company Christmas party, a electric filet knife, a bait buzzer and B.O.C. T-shirt from here! When I was in the Boy Scouts bout 40 years ago, I won 200 bucks for selling the most magazine subscriptions!
 
I have only won one prize that I can remember, and it was a long time ago. I was in the navy and I was moonlighting at a local hospital as a CNA Thru a temp agency. So one day I went in to pick up my check and the girls behind the counter told me about a drawing they were about to have and ask me if I wanted to put my name in it. So I did, Then they shook the bag up and asked me to draw the name. I did, and it was my name I drew, I thought whats the odds of that. No cheating involved period! So, I declined to accept the prize. But they insisted that it was an absolutely fair draw. So I walked out of there with a : Get this: a portable B/W tv, with am/fm. LMAO. was cool back then. Loaded it on my motorcycle and took it home, showed it to my girlfriend (later 2nd wife) She got mad cuz she thought I spent money..... So I won, and I lost all in the same day!!!! LMAO. but seriously that is the only thing I have ever won, Unless you Count my 4th wife Who to me is a prize on most days......... Im dead hehe. Come to think of it, I think the 2nd wife still has it... Mac
 
When I was a kid I put a raffle ticket in the wrong store box at a shopping center, I won a turkey at thanksgiving. lmao. Last year i won a gocart at my eagles lodge picnic. I am to big to ride but my nephew love to come around now. He is 10 yrs old and my fishing buddy so i guess i won something worth while. Luck this year seems to be bad.
If it weren't for bad luck ,I wouldn't have any luck at all.:wink:
 
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