Crazy ass stimulus 💵 purchases!🥴

I thought about buying lottery tickets with my check…well for a sec. ⏱ Some folks did!

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I remember not even knowing if I would get a check.

Being on Social Security, I just didn’t know! — I wasn’t alone.

Luckily I got a few checks!

The IRS started sending the third round of stimulus checks and has now delivered more than 156 million payments worth approximately $372 billion.

Yes, it did cross my mind to gamble it on the lottery.

🙄 But then a scary visual popped into my mind.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A visual of sorting through a mountain of tickets, which would be a monstrous job in itself, and then getting to the last ticket and realizing I had 𝓐𝓑𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓤𝓣𝓔𝓛𝓨 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝚰𝐍𝐆!(>﹏<)

People were buying lottery tickets at a record-breaking clip.

Lottery officials and experts say sales have boomed with three rounds of federal economic stimulus checks and reduced discretionary spending from the COVID-19 pandemic.

🍀Some people did spend ALL OF THE MONEY on tickets!