This woman is riding the longest winning streak in the world

Martina Radtke has collected the happiness, drilled and filed. Three thick file folder balanced on the living room table. Therein, winner notifications, airline tickets and cinema tickets. Menus, lottery tickets, and magazine clippings with photos, many of which Martina Radtkes beams down with a lot of bouquets in the hands.

The animal Keeper has probably won more often in competition than most of the people even participate in such. If we add up the value of all the donated trips, backpacks, and wine glasses together, this comes to approximately 200'000 euros. How does she do that? And what happiness means for someone who has leased it seemingly?

Martina Radtke, 57, not like the Monday. Because there's no Post in Esebeck, the 600-person village in the vicinity of the University town of Göttingen, where she enjoys her Early retirement. To go to the mailbox for you "exciting", it could be a winning notification. Buses do not go so often to Esebeck, therefore, you get visiting with the captured car from the train station. Then you make coffee with the obtained fully-automatic machines.

it began when the lucky streak, the white you, but she sees herself as a ten-year-old of the year market home run, a stuffed bear in his Arm, almost as large as themselves. Since then, it went on with the Win. Martina Radtke flips through the folder; in 1999, Jeep, 2010, a Trip to the world Cup in South Africa, 2013, Ford, 2017, a trip to Egypt, 2018 a washing machine. Last year, she had won "only seven Times", she says "the weather was so good."

it takes part in 30 to 50 contests in the month.

Because win also costs time: post cards, Hotlines to call, Online forms to fill out. Martina Radtke crawled folders, magazines and Advertising, has Vera's happiness is subscribed to-a counselor, a sheet, the profit of the games bundles, and looks in the supermarket after competitions, which are printed on the champagne bottle dangle or Laundry detergent packs.

"Then I'll buy the Laundry detergent of another brand," says Martina Radtke. But only if you need anyway detergent. In order to gain the Ford, has bought 22 of cat food individually and twenty-two receipts. At 30 to 50 competitions it takes part in the month. For postage, phone calls, and craft materials for more than 50 Euro never come, she says – "no more expensive than any other Hobby".

"the Win feels even better when you have done this."Martina Radtke

is Repeatedly allowed to participate in some contests, you have to pay attention to the small print. However, there are professionals, the ends of the several cards of the same one – in the name of the husband, the kids, the Pets. Martina Radtke is not reprehensible. "To me, just too much work and too expensive." to land

Once in the pot, enough already, she is convinced. She likes competitions anyway, you have to be creative: For a mattress manufacturer, you put up with diving goggles on a kind of water-bed, for the mascot of a cereal mill, invented a name for a supermarket chain as she posed with a shopping bag under the water, and for a magazine, she worked with winning a hot glue gun, a Christmas card, which flashed and glittered. "The win feels even better when you have done this," says Radtke.

What's wrong with her, is the Bike a E -. A scooter has already won, also, a battery for an ebike. But not the Velo. "I could of course buy one, but I want to win one," she says, grinning. Generally, they take part only to win games, if you could use the prices also.

Still, things come up sometimes that you can't do anything, like the Ring with the alternating stones interchangeable jewelry. "I thought, a Charlotte-Ring is what to bake," says Martina Radtke, sitting in a fleece sweater and Slippers on the floral sofa and neither jewelry nor Makeup.

there is no money for material luxury. As a girl she shared with the sisters a room, and then she lived for 18 years in a dormitory at the University, she worked as a veterinary nurse. "I knew it."

With a gummy manufacturer, you flew to New York and got a tour of the city by Thomas Gottschalk.

But if Martina Radtke of the travel and Events told to you was invited by the companies, they start to swarm. With a gummy manufacturer, you flew to New York and got a tour of the city by Thomas Gottschalk. In Frankfurt she met the TV chef Horst Lichter went on a red carpet and sat at a dinner table, "where the waiter had a Headset and all the guests have at the same time get their food," as Martina Radtke told. "These are experiences you can't buy."

Often you send your sister, if there is to win. Sometimes both played well and Martina Radtke won. "I do believe that I have a lot of luck," she says, while she's flipping through the folder, in which the fortune in transparencies and lists, it is recorded, as it is less perishable. She adds: "at Least in material things."

Where your happiness was not true

In life, the luck was not always on their side. "My job was my life," says Martina Radtke. But then, three work-related accidents, health problems, the inability to work. To start a family, it was then too late. Martina Radtke lives alone in the apartment, which she paid for in part with winning the money, the cats are dead by now, the Aquarium is empty.

However, Martina Radtke has twelve nieces and nephews, and the more you ask, what has become of a profit, the more you get the feeling that she gives the most of it. The sister got half of the 1000 Euro, the won download Martina Radtke in a Mattress. The nephew flew to the world Cup in South Africa, the other nephew, you bought the satchel with the pirates, the he wished, and the niece gave it to the Charlotte Ring to the value of 200 Euro.

Sometimes you win so much, that she gets all the Christmas and birthday gifts together. Also of the 500-Euro voucher for a book store, you won recently, you could all choose something. Because luck is, says Martina Radtke, for you, when it comes to the family.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 18.01.2019, 19:46 PM