Ervin Smolinski has a birthday tradition -- he gets lottery tickets as presents. It started when he began buying his family tickets as birthday presents, and they started returning the favor. For his 94th birthday, the World War II vet's goodwill effort turned into $300,000 of cold, hard cash. "Every month, I buy some instant tickets and send them as gifts to family members who have birthdays that month," Smolinski said in a statement. "It's turned in to a bit of a tradition, and now everyone sends me scratch-offs and chocolate for my birthday." read more http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/us/vet-wins-lottery-trnd/index.html
Now he can get that Buick he always wanted. Well he won't have that much time to enjoy this money but his family will.
