That’s why I posted. Some people just seem to fall on their feet all the time. If they’re religious, they put it down to God doing special favours for them. This ignores the obvious fact that there are “lucky” atheists out there. If God rewarded and punished in such a clear and obvious fashion, then you should be able to pick atheists by their ratty clothing and lack of worldly possessions, while good Christians should never go without. Clearly that is not the case.
I don’t have an explanation for why some people seem luckier than others, but perhaps it’s a mixture of actions and perceptions. My husband’s actions contributed to his good luck - someone else may have thought “Why bother listing that item for 50 cents? That’s not enough to help us out here”, someone else may have kept a closer eye on the shares their employer gave them and so wouldn’t have been surprised by that money - and as we (the family) have this perception of him as attracting good luck, we take special note when he does have good fortune. Perhaps if we made a decision to consider another family member as lucky, we’d find all sorts of events happen to back that up that we would not have taken note of if we weren’t looking for them.