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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    Went to a potluck and one gal was telling how she was at home and PCH showed up in a limo, flowers, etc. She was screaming and called hubby...neighbors were out etc. Turns out her boss (who was a prankster) set this all up. The way she told it .. it was hysterical. Imagine pulling that prank off! They all had a good laugh. It would be hard to beat that one.
    I never understood what was so funny about these pranks?
    I received one of those joke lottery scratch off tickets, that says you won 10K, when I was involved in a lawsuit, where one of the defendants is a multi million dollar corporation with $500 an hour attorneys working for them, then law firms on retainer. That pays a lot of legal bills for someone close to being homeless.

    I have bought lottery tickets. (when it gets big, if my father can't get out, he will ask me to pick up his weekly ones. Mom prefers to gamble at the boat) I've known a few winners, but have never had that luck.

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    My DH won $10K twice. The first time we had a very nice splurge for ourselves. The second time we were a little bit older and wiser, and we paid down a chunk of our mortgage. He's had some smaller wins of $500 and $1000 here and there. Despite his luck, I suspect he's given them more than he has gotten over the years, but the clear winner here is me, because he shares his winnings and I almost never buy tickets. I should also mention that he gambles with his allowance, not the grocery money or anything like that.

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    My coworker, a divorced receptionist who had limited means, used to manage the weekly lotto ticket pool she had with her Thursday night nail salon friends. They won the 3M NJ lottery, but the group had to share the winnings with another winner, and the nail salon group was made up of 13 people, so the net winnings per person were nice, but not life-changing. My coworker dumped her boyfriend because he said she should have claimed it was her mothers ticket that won, not the group's. No one would know, because she never made copies of the numbers. Money can bring out the best or the worst in people.

    My two other stories of lottery winnings: My mother's husband (she remarried when I was in college, and the guy was a jerk, so I would never call him my stepfather)--bought two tickets, same number one time. They were both in the crapper at the time, but those numbers came up. It did relieve the immediate money pressures--I think it was $3000 back in 1977.

    When DH and I were in the crapper with the 4 kids, he bought a lottery ticket that came up and we won $1750. You would have thought it was a million. Do you think we'd save it? No--DH blew it by buying each kid something, and for me he bought a wooden swing for the backyard. That swing is still in the backyard in NJ and now my son and his family are enjoying it. So at least, while not a prudent purchase back then, wound up really providing hours and hours of enjoyment.

    Oh, one more. My DH gave me a big party for my 60th birthday by taking me to Mohegan Sun in CT. We went to the casino for a couple of hours and I won $1500 at a slot machine. That was a great birthday present! I also left my phone in the ladies room there that night and someone returned it to security, so that was like winning twice.
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    I won a couple of dollars a few years ago.
    "Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal. But accumulate for yourselves treasure in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, your heart is also." Jesus

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    You made me think. I know two people who were struck by lightning, but nobody who won big in any lottery or sweepstakes.

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    I have not know much of anyone who has won much from PCH, the lottery, or legal gambling, but there was a fellow from my younger days who had a reputation for winning various contests. Some of the details escape me, but there was talk that it was rather uncanny. He was a bank manager and lived in a small humble home with his wife and seemed to be a bit of a miser. Rumor was, when he passed awy that his estate was quite enormous.

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    I won $30 on my birthday once. I rarely buy tickets, so that was it for "big winnings."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    I have not know much of anyone who has won much from PCH, the lottery, or legal gambling, but there was a fellow from my younger days who had a reputation for winning various contests. Some of the details escape me, but there was talk that it was rather uncanny. He was a bank manager and lived in a small humble home with his wife and seemed to be a bit of a miser. Rumor was, when he passed awy that his estate was quite enormous.
    That’s not how I thought that story was going to end. As soon as I got to bank manager I thought it was going to end with ‘and it turned out he was stealing from the bank and telling people he’d won this or that contest to justify some lavish new thing he had bought’

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    Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
    That’s not how I thought that story was going to end. As soon as I got to bank manager I thought it was going to end with ‘and it turned out he was stealing from the bank and telling people he’d won this or that contest to justify some lavish new thing he had bought’
    Sorry to disappoint, as that would have made a better ending if not a movie theme. I suppose one could speculate that he just didn't get caught.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    Sorry to disappoint, as that would have made a better ending if not a movie theme. I suppose one could speculate that he just didn't get caught.
    That’s an even better movie! It could end with his widowed wife under an umbrella on a tropical beach somewhere having frozen drinks with the lawn boy.

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