LEICESTER, N.C. – A North Carolina woman who bought a lottery ticket to show her husband the lottery is a waste of money has won $1 million.
Glenda Blackwell of Leicester told WLOS-TV that her husband asked her to buy two Powerball tickets from a Quik Mart last Saturday, but she bought a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket instead.
“So when I went to get it, I started scratching it and when I scratched the two there was a one million winner under the two,” Blackwell said.
Blackwell said she was trying to show her husband that no one ever wins and buying tickets is a waste of money.
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Now she’s eating her words – and enjoying every bite.
“Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, ‘You’re just wasting your money,’” Blackwell said. “”I had to eat my words but they were worth eating. So, I was very happy.”
The 57-year-old Blackwell says she’s going to use the $415,500 lump sum after taxes to buy a home and pay for her granddaughters’ college.
“We’ve struggled a lot, so now we can buy our own home and our own land,” Blackwell said. “It’ll be paid for, and I don’t have to worry about that no more. So, that’s what I plan to do with some of the money and the other part I plan to help my daughter and to put money up for my two granddaughters for college.”