Story highlights Glenda Blackwell was tired of her husband wasting money.
(CNN) A North Carolina woman set out to teach her husband a lesson about the lottery.
Glenda Blackwell of Leicester was tired of her husband wasting money on lottery tickets.
Glenda Blackwell will happily eat her words on how buying lottery tickets is a waste of money.
"I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch off to show him they didn't hit," Blackwell told CNN affiliate WLOS .
"Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, 'You're just wasting your money.'".
That scratch-off ticket she bought out of spite was a $1 million winner. »