Single mom hits jackpot — and can finally treat herself. ‘Never gotten my nails done’
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A single mom hit the jackpot — and now, she can finally treat herself.
“I’ve never gotten my nails done,” the $2 million prize winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery. “I might splurge on that.”
The mom was on her way to the supermarket when she stopped at the Krishna of Summerville convenience store, a roughly 20-mile drive northwest from Charleston. While there, she bought a $20 scratch-off ticket and checked how it fared.
“I gasped,” the winner told lottery officials in a May 16 news release. “I thought there is no way this is happening.”
But the woman’s win was the real deal. Her 200X The Cash ticket beat 1-in-1.46 million odds to score the game’s top prize.
The woman, who was left in disbelief over the windfall, said she stuck with her plan of going to the grocery store.
“I’m still working too, and I’ll keep working,” said the winner, who’s now debt-free and saving for her kids to go to school.
The South Carolina resident wasn’t identified in the news release. She kept $1.39 million after taxes, lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told McClatchy News in an email.
It’s not the first time a lucky lottery player has planned to continue their routine. She joins other South Carolina jackpot winners who haven’t changed much after getting richer, McClatchy News reported in October.
This story was originally published May 16, 2024 at 2:18 PM with the headline "Single mom hits jackpot — and can finally treat herself. ‘Never gotten my nails done’."
