Woman's winning lottery ticket almost ended up in a Christmas card

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sully16 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:53:51 GMT

Nice story, I always used to get them for my dad.

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PrisonerSix — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:35:04 GMT

At Christmas time, Louisiana Lottery has Christmas themed scratch offs that have a TO: and FROM: blank on them and I used them as tags on presents. The people I gave the presents to liked it, but there were never any winners.

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KY Floyd — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:30:57 GMT

Good thing about giving lottery tickets as gifts: they're inexpensive.

Bad thing about giving lottery tickets as gifts: you might give away something that's worth a lot of money.

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cottoneyedjoe — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:35:01 GMT

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Long Odds — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:52:10 GMT

I found it interesting that the top prize of a scratch off lottery ticket is $7,765.45- nice round number.

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Bleudog101 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:08:13 GMT

First thought: Scrooge. No, it was meant for her to cash in and enjoy

Woman's winning lottery ticket almost ended up in a Christmas card

Lottery Post — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:01:07 GMT

An Australian woman who bought a handful of scratch-off lottery tickets to put in her Christmas cards said she ended up with one ticket left over and it won more than $7,000.

The Edgeworth, New South Wales, woman told lottery officials she bought multiple scratch-off tickets from the Edgeworth Newsagency to put into Christmas cards for friends, but after sealing up the last card she discovered she had one lottery ticket left over.

I thought I may as well keep it for myself, the woman reca... [ More ]