I've just won the lottery!!!!!

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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:20 am

Sent hubby off with last weeks lottery tickets to see if we'd won anything, just had a text from him to say "You're not gonna believe this, but we've just won $2 Smile

"

I sent a txt back saying "Wow, a whole 2 dollars, what shall we spend it on?"

He rings saying....not 2 dollars honey....$2690.00!!!!

Woohoo!!

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:22 am

Well done!

Will you save it or spend it?

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

Nice one IWM. Spend it wis.... nah, screw it; blow it on frivolities Smile

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Unfortunately, your hubby also informed you that in order to release the money, you have to wire him $350 in release fees. . . .

"Don't be giving him no freefitty!"

--J.D.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:25 am

Big deal... I win the lottery via email about 23 times a week Laughing

Congrats

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:26 am

Hmm...save or spend.....

Save I think, apart from a nice bottle of Veuve Clicquot!!

Woohoo, bring on the champaigne Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:31 am

Doctor X wrote:

Unfortunately, your hubby also informed you that in order to release the money, you have to wire him $350 in release fees. . . .

"Don't be giving him no freefitty!"

--J.D.

I'm quite sure that's not true and even if it was IWM has sufficient experience to send hubby down to the local shops on some rediculous errand if required.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:38 am

^^^^

I've just sent hime for wine Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:55 am

Ah, you're already one step of DrX, that's what we like to see.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:12 am

it wasn't me wrote:

Hmm...save or spend.....

Save I think, apart from a nice bottle of Veuve Clicquot!!

Congratulations! It's always nice to get a windfall. Here's what I do with unexpected windfalls: Divide it by 3. Spend 1/3, save the other 1/3 and give 1/3 to charity.
I figure that, as the money wasn't planned to come into my hands anyway, I'm still 2/3 better off after giving to charity than before. Wink

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@IWM et callum

The wine is not located in Quebec by any chance?

--J.D.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:41 am

I win the UK national lottery twice a week. When it's about to be drawn I scribble down 6 numbers and when none of them come up I've won a pound.

Made an absolute killing so far!

B-S

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:49 am

Wow so lucky! bow_down

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Funny, some call lotteries an "idiot tax."

The closest I came to winning an "idiot tax" was a trip in Vegas a few years ago. A friend stated we should bet $10 on the NE Patriots to win the Superbowl.

To those born in regions outside of the Warm Glow of the American Empire, the NE Patriots traditionally played American football about as well as a Americans play in the World Cup--not well at all! So I informed my friend that I would invest my $10 "on something useful like half a lap dance or something."

He bet.

The year was 2001. [NE Patriots win their first Super Bowl.--Ed.]

He paid for both of our return trips on the winnings on that bet.

It pays to be lucky.

--J.D.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:20 am

I think I've only ever bought about 5 lottery tickets in my life, never won anything before, but a couple of weeks ago, I was having a real bad day and I thought "Sod it, either scratch cards or lottery...."
I decided on lotto and then totally forgot all about it until today when I saw them in my purse and laughed as I took them out, giving them to hubby.
My words were "Might as well take these to see what we've not won."

Now we're $2690 up!!!!

@Luther - I give $100 every month to Save the children and the SPCA, so this money's going on us!! Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Only bought 5??

I've probably bought 500 but still haven't won anything more than a tenner!

Congrats!

happy crowd

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:29 am

YOU GO GIRL! happy crowd

I do not buy them but Lovey does and never won big.
I tell him that winning me was better than any lottery. Cool

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:09 pm

Excellent!!! You could buy 4483 vicodins with that!!!
I like to take $2 winning scratch-off tickets directly to the lottery office, it's near my office. They can't issue cash there, only take your info and send a you a check. Nothing like getting a $2 checks from the lottery.

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:49 pm

There's a lot to be learned from you in regards to deviant behaviour, Sir! Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:42 pm

The $2 check thing first started as revenge against my ex-wife, the ball-busting hellbeast with no soul. One night as I was asleep, she was going through my wallet looking for hidden cash and she saw my lotto ticket in there. As a joke, she wrote down one of the sets of numbers on a piece of paper and put it on the coffee table.. When I woke up the next day, she told me she wrote the winning lottery numbers on a piece of paper by the coffee table. I thought I had won 54 million bucks and was already mentally spending about 6 million of it when the evil slag started laughing. I wanted to kill her. Months later, I won 2 bucks on a scratch ticket, took it to the lottery office and made them send me a check for 2 bucks. Naturally, I told the hellbeast I had won $10,000 and the lotto office was sending a check since the stores couldn't give me cash for an amount that large. So she waited, drooling for three days for the mail to come so she could snag the check and go on a shopping spree. Needless to say, when the check arrived for 2 bucks, she was a bit angry. "Revenge is a dish best served cold" - Kahn. With that kind of love, I wonder sometimes why we didn't stay married....
Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:59 pm

Great story Reprob8! Best thing I've read all day.

@IWM, have you considered checking out the link about donations Laughing

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:43 am

Spend it all here

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:58 am

Quote:

she was going through my wallet looking for hidden cash

You deserve everything you get R8 - I used to hide my cash all over the house and surreptitiously watch my BB-ing HB from H go frantic searching for it...

Example:

Me: "What are you doing up there?"

Her: "There seems to be something wrong with the TV aerial..."
Cool

Not quite a Newb Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 22

@Reprob8 -
Wow! I can't believe we don't know each other IRL. I was also married to the ball-busting hellbeast with no soul. What a coincidence!

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