Brooke is my favorite scratching friend

My friend, and roomate, has always been my favorite scratch ticket companion. She likes them as much as I do. Whenever we are both in Connecticut we find time to buy tickets at Mobil and scratch until we win something. Brooke is in the picture above. Over Christmas we went to get some tickets. I bought a 10 dollar ticket that was total crap. Brooke bought me two snowflake cashwords because she owed me six bucks. Luckily, one of those lovely snowflakes won 5 dollars. So I really only lost 5 dollars in the whole transaction. Feliz Navidad!

Tis the Season to get scratch ticket presents

 To my surprise there were scratch tickets taped to my present from my sister Carly! At first I just thought they were part of the Justin Beiber wrapping paper she had used, but no, there was a bonus. They were two $5 tickets called "Holiday Gold." Really one of them was only paper because it was a loser but the other won ten bucks! Praise Jesus.

My sister's fiance was clued into my love for scratching so he brought me a "Holiday Spectacular" from New Jersey. I don't think I have ever scratched a New Jersey ticket. I did not have beginners luck, and Jersey did not bring me millions. You can actually see Charlie in the background of this picture admiring my collection of tickets. You will also notice that there are a couple of $1 tickets mixed in there. Those were stocking stuffers from Santa. Scratch tickets make the BEST STOCKING STUFFERS. It's almost like being handed money for no reason. Unfortunately "Holiday Greetings" and "Casino Kings" were all duds. It's funny that all of the scratch tickets start with "Holiday...something." Can't there just be all sorts of Christmas, Hannukkah, Kwanza, etc. tickets? That would be more fun. I would love to scratch something with some sort of dradle game. Instead we are stuck with blah holiday.

NYC es terrible

Lost a 2 dollar cash word at the Bronx bodega. This was followed by an epic binge a few days later. I spent $20 at the news stand down the block and I only won a measly dollar back. $19 gone in just a few brief moments of hopeful scratching. I bought one $10 ticket titled "Make Me Rich" hoping that it would do just that. Still poor. I also bought ten $1 tickets called "Loose Change." Again, I only won a dollar back.

I really appreciate the CT lottery when I'm in shiteous NY

Whew!

So I took those fabulous fives and bought 7 more.  I won $15.00 on a $1.00 ticket.  That's a pretty good score.  I also won $1.00 on three more of the tickets.  So $18.00 in total.  Of the 18 I kept 10 to even my score and spent 8 on some more 1 dollar tickets.  I'm into the 1 dollar tickets right now they are quick and dirty.  Lost the last 8.  BUT over all of the thanksgiving scratching I broke even- can't complain.