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The timing couldn’t have been better for a family from north suburban Geneva when they hit the jackpot after finding some old Lotto tickets stuffed in a cookie jar.

Earlier this month, Ricardo Cerezo said his wife was cleaning the kitchen in the home they were about to lose to foreclosure. She told him to take the old Lottery tickets out of the jar and have them checked, or toss them out.

“It was either take them, get them checked, or she was going to trash them that night,” he said.

So he took the tickets to a local gas station to get them scanned. The first 8 or 9 tickets weren’t winners.

[CBS]

(Credit: Illinois Lottery)