33 Stories Of People Getting Something Truly Priceless For The Low Cost Of $1

A few years ago, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the author of which once asked people: "What is the most a dollar has ever gotten you?" As of today, the thread has over 42K upvotes and more than 8.6K different comments, containing lots of true stories and their lively discussions.

And you know what? I had no idea that people could be this lucky. Some people—yes, of course—but that there could be so many of them? However, even if we filter out some obviously implausible and fictitious stories (which we actually did), we still get an impressive kaleidoscope of human luck.

Well, there are always two sides to any deal, and for some reason, we always remember that guy who paid 10K bitcoins for two pizzas 15 years ago, as a huge loser—after all, he spent almost a billion dollars on the order! On the one hand, we don't know how many more bitcoins that guy, Laszlo Hanyecz, had—and on the other, there was also a delivery guy to whom the bitcoins were paid!

It is known that it was a pizza ordered from Papa John's, but we don't really know where the crypto payment went next. That's a pity—after all, the final recipient may very well be considered one of the luckiest folks in history, too.

However, if you've been lucky once, it's far from certain that you'll be lucky in the future as well. For example, Edwin Castro made history a couple of years ago by winning a colossal $2 billion Powerball jackpot, simply by buying a lottery ticket at a gas station.

We already wrote that the guy bought several properties, including a luxury house in Malibu. Is it worth mentioning what happened to this house during the recent large-scale fires?

But another man, an Aussie who lost his family home in a fire shortly before the pandemic, bought a lottery ticket using his wife's favorite numbers for the combination—and won. Well, not as much as Edwin Castro—"only" a million dollars—but that was enough to build a new home for his family.

As we can see, what seems like a great deal to us here and now is not always perceived in the same way years later. For example, when Ronald Wayne sold his Apple shares for $2.3K in 1974, he could well consider himself a winner. Who could've known that a couple of decades later his entire share would be valued at over $300 billion?

It all depends on the time factor and the angle from which we perceive the deal. Today, we may consider ourselves incredibly lucky, but tomorrow—no one, after all, knows what tomorrow will hold...

Want a personal story? In 2012, I was very interested in cryptocurrencies—from a theoretical, scientific point of view. I read a ton of articles, listened to a couple dozen interviews with experts... who was going to stop me from buying at least a couple of bitcoins? On the other hand, the following year I met my future wife—so I still came out on top, right?

By the way, if you also have a couple of personal tales from your life experience, or you witnessed a similar super-lucky deal of someone else's—please, do not hesitate to share these stories in the comments below. After all, the more stories, the more interesting!