Kentucky woman swipes right in white elephant exchange, gets $175,000 lottery winner

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Lori Janes didn’t get what she wished in a white elephant trade at her workplace Christmas occasion.

It positively labored out for the higher.

Janes and her co-workers at Harmon Dental Heart in Louisville had been collaborating in a white elephant trade throughout a Christmas occasion on the workplace final week, WAVE Channel 3 reviews. Individuals deliver a wrapped reward and might both decide a present from underneath the tree, or “steal” a present that already has been opened.

After co-worker of Janes stole her $25 TJ Maxx reward card away, Janes determined to steal $25 in Kentucky Lottery scratch-off tickets from one other co-worker.

“As soon as it received to me, it was completed and mine to maintain. That’s when everybody was telling me to scratch them off,” Janes tells WLKY.

Janes shortly doubled her cash when she gained $50 on her first ticket. Nevertheless it was her second ticket that supplied the massive pleasure … a $10 Hit the Jackpot ticket definitely worth the prime prize of $175,000.

“Everybody was going insane,” Janes tells WLKY. “Individuals had been getting their calculators out and double-checking. A few folks even scanned the ticket on the lottery’s app, simply to verify.”

Janes took residence $124,250 after taxes. She reportedly plans to repay the scholar loans for her two daughters and to repay automobile loans.