A North Carolina grandma was just trying to teach her husband a lesson on wasteful spending on Saturday when she forked over $10 for a scratch-off lottery ticket.
But the lesson backfired and Glenda Blackwell, 57, won a cool $1M after purchasing a winning Carolina Millions ticket from her local Leicester Suttles Quik Mart.
“I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch off to show him they didn’t hit,” Blackwell told WLOS.
Blackwell bought the ticket in an effort to get her husband Buddy to save his money after he asked her to buy him two Powerball tickets.
“I had to eat my words, but they were worth eating,” Blackwell quipped.
Blackwell – who has health issues – said she took the lump sum of $415,503 as opposed to 20 yearly payments of $50,000 because she isn’t sure how long she’ll live.
She plans to use the money to buy a home for her family and help fund her two granddaughters’ college education.
“We’ve struggled a lot, so now we can buy our own home and our own land. It’ll be paid for and I don’t have to worry about that no more,” Blackwell told the station.