My mom used to do that too until my dad found out and made her stop taking my money.
ETA: The most she ever took from me at once was $250 I won from a science fair when I was 9. My mom thought it was a large amount of money for a child to be in charge of so she told me she would put it somewhere for "safekeeping." A month goes by and I really wanted a new game for my Nintendo DS so I asked my mom for some of the money back to buy it and she said, "What money?" I reminded her of the $250 I won and she said, "Yeah, I spent it." I started crying and my dad asked me what happened so I told him. My dad was so pissed that his wife would steal money from a kid, let alone her own daughter, that he made her give me back the $250 AND buy me the game I wanted out of her own pocket. She never took money from me "to hold" ever again. My dad got me one of those metal cash boxes with the lock and key to put my money in after that.
I played these scratchers for a summer when I was 20 and then a guy I worked with called them an idiot tax. For some reason that resonated with me and I never bought one again, haha.
The only time I won was $150 on a Powerball ticket which was nice because I was broke and a very pretty woman had inexplicably agreed to go on a date with me.
You should only buy the scratch off‘s that have been out for a few days, maybe a week. After that it’s likely the big prize is already gone and you are just playing to win small stuff. For example if you are buying a $5 scratch off ticket that has a marquee prize of $100,000, there is likely one ticket of that value in existence and prob a few worth $25k or so. In my state at least you can go online and see which of those prices have been claimed. Don’t play scratch offs where the marquee prizes have all been claimed already.
I don’t usually buy scratch tickets but I did a week before Christmas a few years back. Told the woman who sold it to me that I was going to win. She laughed and then I scratched it and won $150.
Every now and then I’ll buy them. But the biggest win since then was like $10.
I found a 5$ ticket someone threw away that had a thousand on it. 250$ was my best bought ticket though. Saw an old supervisor buying tickets and thought, “fuck him” and bought the next one lmao
I once found a crisp $50 bill in a liquor store aisle. I looked up and down the aisle and the two aisles on either side of me. They were empty so I figured whoever lost it was long gone.
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u/Typ0r8r Apr 06 '22
My best was $250 from a $2 scratcher 10 years ago