Trash To Treasure: North Texan Wins Big

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RICHARDSON (CBS11) - The North Texas woman who collects litter and keeps lotto tickets she finds tossed on the ground, has hit another jackpot.

Virginia Lawless picks up litter around the Chilly Mart in Richardson every day, and collects the scratch off tickets she finds along the way.

"They're everywhere. I pick them up, all over the place," said Lawless.

She enters those tickets into secondary drawings on the Lottery website, and has won big, twice.

"All I can do is thank god," Lawless said. "Who else could be doing it?"

Back in June, Lawless won an $11,000 trip to Los Angeles.

Then, earlier this week, she won again. This time is a trip to Florida for a Pitbull concert worth nearly $35,000.

"When I opened the list up, I started laughing," Lawless said. "And my brother's like, what's so funny? I'm like, you're not going to believe this… I said, I won the grand prize on Pitbull."

Lawless doesn't give credit to luck, but persistence and kindness.

"What you pay forward you get back times ten," said Lawless. "That's my thoughts on it. It's Karma. It's all about Karma."

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