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The story of the selbees, a couple who made ~8m for themselves and their community from gaming a lottery, is a great read [0] Jon Wertheim: You saved all the l
by ian0 6y ago
The story of the selbees, a couple who made ~8m for themselves and their community from gaming a lottery, is a great read [0]
Jon Wertheim: You saved all the losing tickets?
Marge Selbee: Saved them in big totes.
Jerry Selbee: Big plastic totes.
Jon Wertheim: There must have been millions.
Jerry Selbee: 18.
Jon Wertheim: $18 million worth of losing tickets. And you have those?
Jerry Selbee: Uh-huh just in case we had a physical federal audit.
Marge Selbee: We had the upstairs of the barn. I stored them in one end and in the other end. And then I thought, "Oh no, this floor is gonna fall through." So then we stored them down in the pole barn. And we had probably 60, 65 tubs of tickets.
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- neal_jones 6y agoThat story is awesome
- crucialfelix 6y agoMy grandpa had 4 or 5 huge garbage bags full. On his death bed he whispered to me and I had to go out and buy the numbers for him.
- piracy1 6y agoWhy would they need to keep them? Did they buy them with cash or something? Wouldn't the credit/debit transaction be good enough to prove you bought it?
- sjs382 6y agoMaybe not everywhere, but in some states you need to pay for lottery tickets with cash.