Growing Up Cheap: Children Reveal Their Most Unbelievable Stories

Within minutes, everything I suspected became real. The card was the winning one. My grandpa’s gift—one I had always teased him about for being “stingy”—had suddenly turned into a life-changing fortune. What I once saw as a simple, inexpensive present had now completely transformed my future.

As shock slowly faded into joy, I realized how wrong I had been about him. My grandpa wasn’t cheap; he simply believed in saving, in being careful, and in making every dollar matter. That gift had been sitting in my drawer for years, waiting for its moment.