It pays to double check that lottery ticket, say what?

[Bretrick]

I found 3 lottery tickets lying around my place and threw them in the bin because I had already checked them. Losers.
A little voice said to me, "No harm in double checking"
Took them to the Lottery window for checking.
One of them had won $34.30.
Pays to check.
Has something similar happened to you?

 

[dusty]

In 2009 one day I was going through my mail. There was a letter to me from a place and person I didn't know. Left it on my desk for a few days and then tossed it. The next day something told me to open it so I did. It was a letter from someone who had been appointed executor of my mother's (deceased) brother's will. She begged me to call and told me my uncle had left my brother an I money.

Not completely trusting, I called and it was true. We each had inherited 75,000 dollars. After some paperwork, we recieved the checks. I had never met my uncle but my mother was his favorite sibling. Needless to say my brother and I did the happy dance.

 

[Nathan]

Back in the 90s I was single, living in what was formerly a rental house of mine...became my principal residence once again. It was mid week, I was on my days off, decided to go to the near-by 7-11 store and check the Fantasy Five ticket that had been laying on the kitchen table for over a week. It was the first time that I had played the Fantasy Five, didn't expect anything to come of it. So, I handed the 7-11 clerk the ticket, he checked it and told me that I had won $385 on 4 out of 5 numbers. I was shocked, asked him to repeat what he had said.

The $385 came in real handy, a few days later I picked up a water softener unit for the house. The cost? Exactly $385, including tax.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

No because I don't play. But there's someone in the US ( in my state of New Jersey I believe) who has an unclaimed billion dollar lottery ticket ! I think the news report said the person has six more months to claim the winnings