re: What’s the most valuable thing you’ve won?

When we were dating and my wife was a college student she bought a single raffle ticket and won 52 $100 gift cards to various restaurants in the Lafayette/Acadiana area, so that was pretty awesome. It ended up taking several years to go through them all.

Close but doesn't count, a custom motorcycle magazine I subscribed to built/gave away a motorcycle at a show they hosted in July in North Carolina. That August I attend a show hosted by that magazine in Sturgis and when I get home my new issue is waiting for me. Reading an article about the show in July and my name was called to win the bike in North Carolina, but since I wasn't there they pulled another name. Had they done the drawing at Sturgis instead I'd have won. I emailed them with some pics and stuff from the Sturgis show and to my surprise they mailed me a bunch of stuff, a hoodie, a nice jacket, and I think a couple gift cards, so that was nice of them.