Feb. 14 (UPI) —<\/span> A Maryland man who had a lucky feeling while picking up supplies for a home renovation project said the construction will now be completed with help from a $100,000 lottery jackpot.<\/p>\n The 44-year-old Bel Air man told Maryland Lottery officials he and his family recently purchased their first house, and are currently working to renovate the home.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The man said he was running errands to buy paint and other supplies for the house when he stopped at Freddie’s Fine Wines in Joppa to pick up some drinks.<\/p>\n The man said the store’s display of scratch-off lottery tickets caught his eye and he thought to himself, “I feel lucky.”<\/p>\n The player purchased a $100,000 Extreme Cash scratch-off ticket and took it home, where he revealed the $100,000 prize.<\/p>\n “My wife immediately started crying, and I immediately called my two daughters to let them know about our big win,” the winner said.<\/p>\n He said the money will go toward paint, carpeting, furniture and other expenses for the new house.<\/p>\n “This came at a perfect time,” he said. “My family and I just moved into our first new home. This money will help with renovations.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Bel Air, Md., man said he was out buying supplies to renovate his family’s new home when he impulsively bought the scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a $100,000 prize. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 14 (UPI) — A Maryland man who had a lucky feeling while picking up supplies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nA Bel Air, Md., man said he was out buying supplies to renovate his family’s new home when he impulsively bought the scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a $100,000 prize. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n