I found £86,000 fortune cleaning my house for Christmas – it was gathering dust in a drawer & was a million-to-one find

ONE lucky woman discovered a Christmas miracle in a drawer of her house as she got her hands on a million-to-one find.

The woman stumbled upon an £86,000 winning lottery ticket that had been collecting dust for almost three years.

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A woman found a winning lottery ticket worth £86,000 collecting dust in her drawer after cleaning her house for Christmas[/caption]

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The lucky woman is from Magdeburg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and won a million-to-one find[/caption]

Wishing to remain anonymous, the lady was cleaning her house preparing for a big festive celebration when she popped upon a barely used drawer and found the fortune sitting inside.

The amazed resident of Magdeburg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, hadn’t seen the ticket in her desk draw since February 2021 and forgot it even existed until it reappeared.

It was for the local “Lotterie Super 6” lottery and turned out to be worth €100,000 (£86,765) even after such a long time had passed.

Local media reported on December 26, that the woman forgot to check her numbers until she once again found the ticket and decided to have another look at what the final numbers were.

On her win, the woman said: “I cannot believe it. It feels like rediscovering a forgotten treasure.”

Lotto-Toto Sachsen-Anhalt lottery enterprise director Stefan Ebert described the woman’s luck as incredible, saying she had a million-to-one chance of winning that much cash.

Other than being an older version of the tickets used in recent months her amazing find was still in an almost perfect condition, according to lottery officials.

The ecstatic lady has decided to spend her lucky thousands on a luxury holiday away.

A spokeswoman for the Lotto-Toto Sachsen-Anhalt tracked back the ticket and discovered that the same woman had placed £35 over four weeks on the same set of numbers.

The winner was purchased from a newsagents in the city centre of Magdeburg.

Despite this win being so unlikely there is reportedly a whole load of huge, unclaimed prizes from 2021 waiting to be snapped up on the lottery.

Officials in Saxony-Anhalt have revealed that anyone with an old ticket should seriously consider checking their numbers as over £572,000 worth of prize money is waiting to be handed out.

Anyone with a winning ticket from 2021 is still able to collect their money up until December 31, 2024.

Germany is crazy about their lottery with the business having achieved a whopping turnover of almost £7billion in 2022.

This equates to around seven million Germans regularly playing the lottery, according to pollsters IfD Allensbach.

A study found that 181 people won totals toppling over €1million last year.

Other lucky lottery winners include Yandiel Cruz-Chavez, 33, from Michigan, US,

He found an old lottery ticket stuffed in his wallet and said the victory completely changed his life.

Yandiel didn’t realise at first that he’d struck gold with the crinkled-up ticket but ended up pocketing almost $200,000.

It comes after a Ukrainian refugee won a major jackpot after being forced to flee his country due to Putin’s brutal war.

The winner, who lives in Brussels, bought the scratchcard for only £4.30, and revealed he has big plans for his winnings.

Meanwhile, one mum in Queensland, Australia, won a mega £19 million after buying a winning Powerball ticket.

The Aussie bagged the incredible amount but vowed to “keep working” because she loved her job so much.

Another lottery winner shared the bizarre way he spends £10,000 per year to entertain his staff.