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<p>If you&#39;ve ever entered to win McDonalds monopoly, a car giveaway sweepstakes, or really any of those exciting contests plastered onto food products, then you know just how rare it is to actually see the prize.</p><p>For those of us who have never won, it&#39;s easy to forget that there are in fact people who win those getaways and goodie bags, and they usually live to spill the juice.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2kaw64/redditors_who_have_won_a_contest_like_the_ones/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people who won a random competition or sweepstake shared what happened.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/schaumann/">schaumann</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was around 10 I entered a cat-related competition through a kids TV show - I think it was called Kidzone. You had to mail the entry into them, and in 25 words or less, explain what you do to make your cat happy. My entry was something like, &quot;I take my cat inside to watch Kidzone every afternoon!&quot;</p> <p>I ended up winning 24 cans of Whiskas cat food.</p> <p>I didn&#39;t have a cat.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/KBeavis/">KBeavis</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was about 10 I won a Disney.com contest and got to meet &#39;Gordo&#39; from the Lizzie McGuire show. He was nice but I was awkward and it was weird having my dad hovering over me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kaps84/">kaps84</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was about 10 years old, I found a stack of porno magazines in my dad&#39;s closet, I filled out a form for free adult gifts and 4-6 weeks later a box showed up with my little brother&#39;s (he was 5) name and address on it. My dad opened it up and there was a butt plug and a pocket lipstick vibrator in it. I don&#39;t think they ever figured out where it came from...no pun intended.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/badmansweets/">badmansweets</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I won a radio contest when I was a kid. The prize was 3 tickets (myself, a friend and a guardian) to see the Power Rangers in concert and a meet and greet in a Burger King. My sister cried the entire meet and greet and I wore double denim, good times!</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/rspads/">rspads</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I won a trip to Paris to see Jimmy Page. It was awesome, my bestie met someone while we were there and just recently went back. I had a great time and got to see a rock legend.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/phudfiddy/">phudfiddy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad got picked to shoot pucks at center ice at an ice hockey game for the Regina Pats (Regina, Saskatchewan). Won an RV.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mauxly/">mauxly</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend called me one day and asked me how quickly I could get a passport. She&#39;s won an all expense paid trip to London, and couldn&#39;t go. She gave it to me.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I didn&#39;t think it was real until I landed in London two weeks later. I figured that because it was free, I&#39;d be staying in the ghetto. I got off the tube into the nices ghetto I&#39;d ever seen (Kensington) and stayed in a swank hotel down from the palace.</p> <p>Epic, epic trip. By myself, total blast. Totally unexpected. And I can&#39;t believe they let her give it to me.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wishesgrantd/">wishesgrantd</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandparents won a cruise through Good Morning America. It was the maiden voyage of the Disney Dream cruise ship. My grandparents took myself and my sister with them. It was a lot of fun, we got to stay at a Disney hotel, then the next morning we went to Cape Canaveral when we got to be in the background of the weather segment on GMA. We then went to a presentation about the ship, watched the christening. We had three days, two nights on the ship if I remember correctly, and it was some of the most fun I&#39;ve ever had. It was not yet open to the public so it was not crowded at all. I think there were some celebrities on the ship too (John Stamos, Whoopi Goldberg), but I didn&#39;t see any.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/barristonsmellme/">barristonsmellme</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>On Easter when I was younger, maybe 8 or 9 a Tesco by ours had a competition where if you find all 10 hidden rabbits in the store and write their names down, you win a giant chocolate rabbit. This f**king thing was like 4 feet tall and made entirely of chocolate.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>So I run around the store and find all 10 names, write them on the paper with my name and just as I&#39;m about to hand it in, my mum tells me to give my sister the names too because it&#39;s not fair she&#39;s only a kid blablabla.</p> <p>That f**king night they phone up to say we&#39;ve won. Well. My sisters won.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was f**king livid. It&#39;s probably one of the few things I still get really angry over and it was like 13-14 years ago.</p> <p>We go to the store to pick it up and the staff are like &quot;Wow you&#39;re so young! That&#39;s impressive reading skills! We&#39;re so impressed that on top of the rabbit, you can have an easter egg off the staff too!&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I got f**king none of it. Every kid in the street got a chunk. My sister kept the head like some sort of prize until it went all white and had to go. and now I&#39;m the sort of person that goes to a pub quiz with my friends, gets my own sheet of paper and f**king hides in a corner.</p> <p>That was the moment I learned that life isn&#39;t always fair.</p> <p>TL;DR: F*CK SHARING.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/McIgglyTuffMuffin/">McIgglyTuffMuffin</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>So you know how some cereals had those offers where it was like SEND IN 5 UPC CODES AND GET THIS PRIZE! Well, back in the old era of the 90s there was this magical toy called the [Yak Back] (<a href="http://www.whatevo.com/media/posts/yak-bak.jpg" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">http://www.whatevo.com/media/posts/yak-bak.jpg</a>). I ate enough oatmeal to get one. My mom sent all the stuff in and it was sent out.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Well, it never arrived. My mom contacted General Mills or whoever and they said I probably took it out of the mailbox. IF I TOOK IT OUT OF THE MAILBOX I WOULDN&#39;T HAVE CRIED OVER NOT HAVING IT!</p> <p>So yeah, I don&#39;t think they ever sent it and I ate a lot of oatmeal for nothing.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jollychimp/">jollychimp</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I won a Game Boy Advance from Go-Gurt when I was little.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/banana-skeleton/">banana-skeleton</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Back in the 5th grade the company that made our chocolate milk cartons, held a contest where if your carton made a moo when you open it, you would win an ipod (the bigger ones), my best friend at the time won it and was the coolest kid in school.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>That&#39;s my best contribution to this thread.</p> <p>Edit: Just to add, I also remember that my friend, instead of quickly securing his prize in his locker, went around the entire school, on a parade, to show his triumph. He went around at recess to every kid, showing him his treasure, which, at the time, was worth more than all the Yu-Gi-Oh cards in the entire school.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kingofvodka/">kingofvodka</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My mum won a trip to go see Katy Perry with some meet &amp; greet. Apparently, Katy Perry herself phoned my mum to tell her she won, but my mum had no idea who she was lol, she just liked entering competitions.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xxwerdxx/">xxwerdxx</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a friend win a trip to England to meet deadmau5. Said he was kinda quiet and a little rude.</p> <p>Understandable because we found out later that the contest was setup w/o deadmau5&#39;s permission.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DaJaKoe/">DaJaKoe</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My school once had one of those &quot;guess how many (blank) are in this jar&quot; contests. I didn&#39;t partake in it, but the guy who won it only wanted the candy it had inside, so I ended up with a nice glass jar.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/audi_fanatic/">audi_fanatic</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend organized her high school to participate in the contest Katy Perry had about a year ago where the best submission won a Katy Perry concert for their school. They were the school to win (Lakewood Tigers) and she met Katy Perry one on one. She loved it a ton, said Katy is a really great person and so on.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/firefex/">firefex</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Trip to Las Vegas from Ireland for me and 3 friends for 5 nights with 2000 spending money, helicopter ride, VIP nightclub entry. All I had to do was submit a picture to win. Money was spent quite quickly...</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Montgomeryi11/">Montgomeryi11</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My sister won a trip off of radio Disney to spend a night at Aaron Carter&#39;s house. We get to his &quot;house&quot; and it ended up being a large plot of land. Everyone in his family had their own house in the area. None of the houses were especially huge, but considering one person was living in each house they were big enough.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He took us out on his own personal yacht. Then he made us play hide and seek with him on his yacht. It was pretty repetitive, but he insisted we would continue to play. He seemed kind of lonely and excited to have people over(we were only twelve at the time).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Then he made us drive around and play tag with him using his collection of golf carts. That was pretty cool. He brings me into his room afterwards and his room is filled with posters of him. Kind of weird but whatever. We fell asleep watching little nicki together.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When I left he gave me a gift bag of goodies from him. There was a poster, a cd, and a Barbie doll of himself. He was a nice enough kid, just kind of demanding and arrogant.</p> <p>EDIT: Here is a picture for proof <a href="http://imgur.com/l2znzFD" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/l2znzFD</a></p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tapemaster21/">Tapemaster21</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I won a furby from a &quot;Colour in the furby&quot; thing on an Oreo-Os cereal box. Everything was going fine until we noticed that instead of slowly learning some English, it was slowly speaking German.</p> <p>We may or may not have went to Target to buy one and then returned the German one in it&#39;s box.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PM_YOUR_LadyDick/">PM_YOUR_LadyDick</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My cousin was one of a few who won a radio contest for $500 to spend on her Quincea&ntilde;era. All of the other winners from that were then put into a contest to win a Quincea&ntilde;era dress. She won that too.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It was all fun and exciting, until we learned that the awards were tied to the sh**tiest little Quince store with really trashy stuff. We managed to find a nice dress, decent decorations, and saved a ton of money on it all, but definitely was not expecting to have to hunt through a basement store.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people who won a contest to meet a celebrity or go on a trip share what happened.

If you&#39;ve ever entered to win McDonalds monopoly, a car giveaway sweepstakes, or really any of those exciting contests plastered onto food products, then you know just how rare it is to actually see the prize.For those of us who have never won, it&#39;s easy to forget that there are in fact people who win those getaways and goodie bags, and they usually live to spill the juice.In a popular Reddit thread, people who won a random competition or sweepstake shared what happened.1. From schaumann: When I was around 10 I entered a cat-related competition through a kids TV show - I think it was called Kidzone. You had to mail the entry into them, and in 25 words or less, explain what you do to make your cat happy. My entry was something like, &quot;I take my cat inside to watch Kidzone every afternoon!&quot; I ended up winning 24 cans of Whiskas cat food. I didn&#39;t have a cat. 2. From KBeavis: When I was about 10 I won a Disney.com contest and got to meet &#39;Gordo&#39; from the Lizzie McGuire show. He was nice but I was awkward and it was weird having my dad hovering over me. 3. From kaps84: When I was about 10 years old, I found a stack of porno magazines in my dad&#39;s closet, I filled out a form for free adult gifts and 4-6 weeks later a box showed up with my little brother&#39;s (he was 5) name and address on it. My dad opened it up and there was a butt plug and a pocket lipstick vibrator in it. I don&#39;t think they ever figured out where it came from...no pun intended. 4. From badmansweets: I won a radio contest when I was a kid. The prize was 3 tickets (myself, a friend and a guardian) to see the Power Rangers in concert and a meet and greet in a Burger King. My sister cried the entire meet and greet and I wore double denim, good times! 5. From rspads: I won a trip to Paris to see Jimmy Page. It was awesome, my bestie met someone while we were there and just recently went back. I had a great time and got to see a rock legend. 6. From phudfiddy: My dad got picked to shoot pucks at center ice at an ice hockey game for the Regina Pats (Regina, Saskatchewan). Won an RV. 7. From mauxly: A friend called me one day and asked me how quickly I could get a passport. She&#39;s won an all expense paid trip to London, and couldn&#39;t go. She gave it to me.  I didn&#39;t think it was real until I landed in London two weeks later. I figured that because it was free, I&#39;d be staying in the ghetto. I got off the tube into the nices ghetto I&#39;d ever seen (Kensington) and stayed in a swank hotel down from the palace. Epic, epic trip. By myself, total blast. Totally unexpected. And I can&#39;t believe they let her give it to me. 8. From wishesgrantd: My grandparents won a cruise through Good Morning America. It was the maiden voyage of the Disney Dream cruise ship. My grandparents took myself and my sister with them. It was a lot of fun, we got to stay at a Disney hotel, then the next morning we went to Cape Canaveral when we got to be in the background of the weather segment on GMA. We then went to a presentation about the ship, watched the christening. We had three days, two nights on the ship if I remember correctly, and it was some of the most fun I&#39;ve ever had. It was not yet open to the public so it was not crowded at all. I think there were some celebrities on the ship too (John Stamos, Whoopi Goldberg), but I didn&#39;t see any. 9. From barristonsmellme: On Easter when I was younger, maybe 8 or 9 a Tesco by ours had a competition where if you find all 10 hidden rabbits in the store and write their names down, you win a giant chocolate rabbit. This f**king thing was like 4 feet tall and made entirely of chocolate.  So I run around the store and find all 10 names, write them on the paper with my name and just as I&#39;m about to hand it in, my mum tells me to give my sister the names too because it&#39;s not fair she&#39;s only a kid blablabla. That f**king night they phone up to say we&#39;ve won. Well. My sisters won.  I was f**king livid. It&#39;s probably one of the few things I still get really angry over and it was like 13-14 years ago. We go to the store to pick it up and the staff are like &quot;Wow you&#39;re so young! That&#39;s impressive reading skills! We&#39;re so impressed that on top of the rabbit, you can have an easter egg off the staff too!&quot;  I got f**king none of it. Every kid in the street got a chunk. My sister kept the head like some sort of prize until it went all white and had to go. and now I&#39;m the sort of person that goes to a pub quiz with my friends, gets my own sheet of paper and f**king hides in a corner. That was the moment I learned that life isn&#39;t always fair. TL;DR: F*CK SHARING. 10. From McIgglyTuffMuffin: So you know how some cereals had those offers where it was like SEND IN 5 UPC CODES AND GET THIS PRIZE! Well, back in the old era of the 90s there was this magical toy called the [Yak Back] (http://www.whatevo.com/media/posts/yak-bak.jpg). I ate enough oatmeal to get one. My mom sent all the stuff in and it was sent out.  Well, it never arrived. My mom contacted General Mills or whoever and they said I probably took it out of the mailbox. IF I TOOK IT OUT OF THE MAILBOX I WOULDN&#39;T HAVE CRIED OVER NOT HAVING IT! So yeah, I don&#39;t think they ever sent it and I ate a lot of oatmeal for nothing. 11. From jollychimp: I won a Game Boy Advance from Go-Gurt when I was little. 12. From banana-skeleton:  Back in the 5th grade the company that made our chocolate milk cartons, held a contest where if your carton made a moo when you open it, you would win an ipod (the bigger ones), my best friend at the time won it and was the coolest kid in school.  That&#39;s my best contribution to this thread. Edit: Just to add, I also remember that my friend, instead of quickly securing his prize in his locker, went around the entire school, on a parade, to show his triumph. He went around at recess to every kid, showing him his treasure, which, at the time, was worth more than all the Yu-Gi-Oh cards in the entire school. 13. From kingofvodka: My mum won a trip to go see Katy Perry with some meet &amp; greet. Apparently, Katy Perry herself phoned my mum to tell her she won, but my mum had no idea who she was lol, she just liked entering competitions. 14. From xxwerdxx: I had a friend win a trip to England to meet deadmau5. Said he was kinda quiet and a little rude. Understandable because we found out later that the contest was setup w/o deadmau5&#39;s permission. 15. From DaJaKoe: My school once had one of those &quot;guess how many (blank) are in this jar&quot; contests. I didn&#39;t partake in it, but the guy who won it only wanted the candy it had inside, so I ended up with a nice glass jar.  16. From audi_fanatic: My friend organized her high school to participate in the contest Katy Perry had about a year ago where the best submission won a Katy Perry concert for their school. They were the school to win (Lakewood Tigers) and she met Katy Perry one on one. She loved it a ton, said Katy is a really great person and so on. 17. From firefex: Trip to Las Vegas from Ireland for me and 3 friends for 5 nights with 2000 spending money, helicopter ride, VIP nightclub entry. All I had to do was submit a picture to win. Money was spent quite quickly... 18. From Montgomeryi11: My sister won a trip off of radio Disney to spend a night at Aaron Carter&#39;s house. We get to his &quot;house&quot; and it ended up being a large plot of land. Everyone in his family had their own house in the area. None of the houses were especially huge, but considering one person was living in each house they were big enough.  He took us out on his own personal yacht. Then he made us play hide and seek with him on his yacht. It was pretty repetitive, but he insisted we would continue to play. He seemed kind of lonely and excited to have people over(we were only twelve at the time).  Then he made us drive around and play tag with him using his collection of golf carts. That was pretty cool. He brings me into his room afterwards and his room is filled with posters of him. Kind of weird but whatever. We fell asleep watching little nicki together.  When I left he gave me a gift bag of goodies from him. There was a poster, a cd, and a Barbie doll of himself. He was a nice enough kid, just kind of demanding and arrogant. EDIT: Here is a picture for proof http://imgur.com/l2znzFD 19. From Tapemaster21: I won a furby from a &quot;Colour in the furby&quot; thing on an Oreo-Os cereal box. Everything was going fine until we noticed that instead of slowly learning some English, it was slowly speaking German. We may or may not have went to Target to buy one and then returned the German one in it&#39;s box. 20. From PM_YOUR_LadyDick: My cousin was one of a few who won a radio contest for $500 to spend on her Quincea&ntilde;era. All of the other winners from that were then put into a contest to win a Quincea&ntilde;era dress. She won that too.  It was all fun and exciting, until we learned that the awards were tied to the sh**tiest little Quince store with really trashy stuff. We managed to find a nice dress, decent decorations, and saved a ton of money on it all, but definitely was not expecting to have to hunt through a basement store. 