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My dad is really fond of lottery tickets. Every Christmas, every birthday, and for pretty much any reason at all, he'll pop into a 7-Eleven, claiming he's 'feeling lucky.' Has he ever won anything? Certainly not any prizes that would offset the expense of buying so many tickets.
It's a gamble, but a fun one to take if you're in good spirits about it.
The family in this next story certainly didn't have a generous, fun-loving spirit when they pulled the winning numbers, resulting in a rift widening between every fissure in the family dynamic.
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"AITA For Not Sharing My Lottery Winnings From a White Elephant Gift?"
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22-year-old scratches a $25,000 winning lottery ticket at the family gift exchange, then everyone demands 'their cut' of the winnings, he refuses: 'They're the selfish ones'
Nothing good can come from a gifted lottery ticket.
Either you win nothing and have no gift, or you win cash and get stuck in a moral dilemma about sharing your earnings. This family member found themselves in such a pickle after plucking the winning numbers out of a blind White Elephant gift.
We all know the rules for a White Elephant exchange. In huge families, this is probably the most cost-effective way to do your gift-giving, because each person only has to buy one gift and they only receive one gift. Balance is in order. However, the scales shifted when the person in our next story got a bunch of lottery numbers as their random gift. Assuming they were losing tickets (according to statistic probability), they hadn't checked to see if they'd won the lottery... Until now.
Keep scrolling to read all of the grizzly details of this family that came unfurled at the seams over a couple thousand dollars of winnings.
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