Husband Gifts Cousin $5 Lottery Ticket That Wins $50,000, But Wife Wants Him To Take It Back
Money makes the world go round and can make people lose their minds, too.
A $5 lottery ticket turned into a $50,000 win, and now one family is arguing over who gets to keep the luck.
In this Reddit story, a husband follows a Christmas tradition of gifting lottery tickets to the adults in his family. One of those tickets hits big for his 23-year-old cousin, but the celebration gets awkward when the husband’s wife decides the winning ticket should be taken back.
What started as a simple holiday gift quickly turned into a fight over money, fairness, and who really owns a lucky ticket.
This is how it all began.
No_Minimum_7226It's one of the best experiences of life, honestly.
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Greed takes over his wife.
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Told you about a true gem of a person, right? He's one of them.
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Exactly. I wish the wife saw things the way he did.
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People were quick to pick a side.
Wow. The audacity...
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Yep, good point.
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OP should not talk to her until she realizes the greed.
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The wife is wrong.
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And the comments kept getting sharper.
Exactly. It was a gift.
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OP says she's the sweetest person on the planet... I wonder why she became greedy then.
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OP is thoughtful, for sure.
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A gift is a gift.
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That was the main argument in the thread.
This is the same kind of pressure as an AITA thread where a sister expected half of lottery winnings after opting out.
Sure, you bought it, but you gifted it. You can't take back a gift.
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You spent $5—nothing more, nothing less.
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This is a good point.
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OP needs to be careful about how he approaches this situation.
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Some? The cousin owns the entire $50,000.
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Exactly.
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Facts.
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Things will escalate quickly then.
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Good point.
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She needs to accept that the ticket was a gift.
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Sounds fair.
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Exactly.
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Even if the cousin won $5 million, he owns it all.
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Now the wife has some explaining to do.
In Summary...
I hope OP's wife will realize that it's wrong to take back a gift just because it comes with a lump of money.
What if she won $50,000 on a lottery ticket that someone gifted her? Would she be okay with returning it if the person who gifted her the winning ticket asked for it back?
I'm sure she wouldn't even want to think about it. OP's wife, I hope you understand that you're wrong in asking your husband to take back a gift.
What are your thoughts about this situation?
Want another lottery-family blowup, read why this OP refused to share winnings with a sister who demanded half.
