Lucky Day- by some standards

Ok so.  Some of you don't know this about me.  I like gambling.  It's not a problem because I don't do it very often.  You won't find me on the weekends up at Charleston Races and Slots or anything, but I love it.

I am highly addicted to Scratchers. In college, Mandy and I took all our house-collected coins to a coinstar and then went and bought $75 worth of scratchers.  We actually ended up winning most of that money back!  I don't often keep cash on my person because I will buy them.  And waste my money.

But not today...

I went to BJs to get string cheese, popsicles and vitamins.  After I paid for my items, plus the Sandra Bullock US Weekly, I passed a Scratcher machine.  I had a ten dollar bill and 4 one dollar bills on my person.  Uh oh....

So I started small, I used only the 4 dollar bills and bought:

One of these (because I love Monopoly):

No dice.  Wasted $2.

And I bought two of these:

The first ticket was a dud.  But the second ticket-- I scratched off three $10 amounts-- which means I won $10!   

I could have taken my newly earned $10 bill (well, really only $6 that was new to me) and run with it, but I like to gamble (as previously stated).

So I put that $10 bill into the Scratchers machine and bought 3 new scratchers:

 No luck on Aces and 8s.

No luck on Crossword puzzle.  You have to scratch off 3 words to win a prize and I didn't get an "E".

Here it comes...  WAHOO!!  No, I didn't win $100,000.  But with my winning numbers, I did win $20. Yes!

I opted not to push my luck.  I profited $16 today!  

Wahoo!