25 Days of Christmas: Number 20

Number 20.


Lottery Tickets.


Every year on Christmas Eve, my mom's mom (Grandma "Pud" as we liked to call her) would purchase a loooooooot of Christmas lottery tickets. She was a reagular Bingo player and would often hit up the local store for lottery tickets throughout the year. If we happened to be with her, she would buy a few for us.

Some grandparents spoil their grandchildren with sweets, others with toys.

Grandma Pud? No, she would hand us her credit card, drop us off at the mall, and tell us to

"buy yourselves something nice".

We would come home with bags of fun stuff. Gobs of clothes and the like (Yes, way to go Grandma for teaching us such healthy spending habits).

She would also tell us to "hide the bags so Grandpa didn't see".

My Grandfather, a local retired sailor and postman, would always be found on his Lazy Boy watching the ball game.

Unbeknownst to him that his grandchildren were frolicking around with his wife's credit cards, would hand us a $5 dollar bill and tell us the same thing before we hit the mall..."buy yourselves something nice" he would say. Lol.

But, I digress.

So, yes. My Grandma was also the type to give us scratch off tickets every Chrismas Eve.

After she died, my mother took on the tradition. It's a fun one that has been passed on to us. Even my brother-in-law and sister-in-law get excited for some lottery action!!