The 64-year-old, Borden-Carelton resident won $100,000 last Sunday off of a $10 crossword scratch ticket.
“I checked the ticket three times and went to the store. The clerk asked me how much I thought I won and I told him ‘what I think isn’t going to show up,’ so I sat at the counter while he called Moncton,” said Birch.
But this wasn’t the first time Birch won money off of a crossword scratch ticket.
“The first time I won, I won $10,000 off a $3 ticket and the second time I won $30,000.”
“I don’t have much luck with 649 so I don’t waste anything on that,” she added.
With her first win, Birch bought a lawn tractor with a snow blower and the second time she traded in her car.
“This time, I’m pre-arranging my funeral. I thought it would be a good way to take the burden off my two daughters. I thought, ‘I’m 64-years-old, this is a good idea,” she said.
Before this most recent win, Birch worked at the potato inspection plant in Borden-Carelton until it closed.
“Before this win, I was going to be living on $350 a month. Now I don’t have to worry about it.”
Birch, a homebody, doesn’t plan on using the money to travel.
“I’m a plain Jane. I like to be home. I’m not a traveller.”