Reading this article I was thinking, "I really hope someone from Boston who participated in this is on HN". Check the comments and there it is :D
Care to share any additional thoughts/experiences on this whole thing?
> - I have a very large collection of losing lottery tickets.
Why do you still keep them around? Edit: or for how long does the IRS make you keep them, I guess.
I would assume its the standard 3 to 6 years for auditing, but for something as crazy as hundreds of thousands of tickets, might be worth keeping around longer.
Yeah, that's basically what it is. The tickets that are still within the 6 year audit window have all been digitized; at this point I mostly keep them as a souvenir.
How did you digitize that many tickets?
I imagine one at a time at the time of purchase.
High speed scanner, and an unreasonable amount of manual effort.
Do you still keep an eye on new lottery games?
A little, but mostly just as a casual interest these days.