This thread takes me back to the early 90's - I had purchased raffle tickets at a quilt show benefitting some guild. Months later I received the phone call that I had WON - my prize was a Rowenta iron AND a Polder ironing board (funny how I remember that brand name so many years later). Boy, was I excited! I had won something and things that I really wanted. That evening I was spending time with my nephew, then 10. I excitedly told him about winning a raffle. His little face lit up, until I told him what the prizes were. Just recently he brought that conversation up. He was sure that I had won some cool thing like a GameBoy or a motocross bicycle or some other awesome thing that I would want to give to him. He could not understand why anyone would ever get excited about an iron and ironing board. He told me that I actually dropped a few points in the "cool aunt" category for a while there.