Cleaning out your wallet sometimes uncovers forgotten gift cards or even a crumpled-up dollar bill if you're lucky. For one man, the unexpected prize was a million bucks.
According to the Delaware Lottery, a man living in the Philadelphia suburbs, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought a Powerball ticket in New Castle on Feb. 1, 2015, for the drawing three days later.
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His ticket turned out to have five of the winning numbers for that drawing, but not the Powerball number.
However, the 39-year-old winner didn't take the time to check if he had won, as he couldn't scan the Delaware ticket in his Pennsylvania hometown.
"Because I was too lazy to go online and check the winning numbers, the ticket remained unchecked in my wallet until last Friday night," the man told lottery officials.
Almost a year later, on Friday, the man was visiting a friend in Delaware when a heavy snowstorm hit the region.
He decided to use the time they were snowed in by going back and checking the numbers from that drawing, finding out he was a winner. The belated victor claimed his $1 million prize in Dover on Saturday.
The ticket would have expired after a year, lottery officials say.
“My first and only Delaware Lottery purchase was definitely the luckiest in my 20 years of playing the Lottery," he said.
