Winning the lottery can often lead to making significant investments, and one Canadian is taking the old-school route with his money.

Alexander Kurylowicz won $1 million on Lotto 6/49 earlier this summer, discovering the win after taking the ticket into Save-On Foods to check it, along with several other tickets he had been holding onto.

The Coalhurst, Alta., resident admitted that he has been collecting his lottery tickets for a while and scans them all at once, scanning about 20 tickets on that day.

One of those tickets stopped him in his tracks.

“I couldn’t believe it when I saw the win,” he said while speaking with Lotto Spot. “I did get a couple tears coming.”

“I had the cashier double-check it, and she said, ‘Six zeroes!’” he laughed. “I just thought, ‘Wow.’”

While some people

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