Comments on: Why I Buy Lottery Tickets

By: star fish

star fish — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:39 +0000

i think buying lottery tickets is good. more people should buy them. dont listen to these f’ing people. they dont know what there talking about. yeah.. im a gambler. who cares.? its actually really funn. yall should try it. thanks toots:)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:32:26 +0000

Cleverdude,

I figure someone needed to step in and stick up for you! I play Mega Millions too. I spend $2 a week, most weeks but not all, in exchange for the hope, enjoyment, and daydreaming potential I get in return for those $2.

I think the fun received is totally worth not putting that extra $100 in my RothIra each year.

Rebecca

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By: barry

barry — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:49:18 +0000

I’ve always been told gambling is a tax on people who don’t understand probability.

By: cleverdudette

cleverdudette — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:55:40 +0000

I think that “My Financial Journey” has a good point. Mr. Dude and I have had many conversations about his weekly $6 at the lottery. I think Ms. Dude needs a space to blog!

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RateLadder.com - Prosper Lending Strategy, Loans, and Rate analysis — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:28:07 +0000

I justify my lottery habit as the real value of a dollar. A single dollar does change my life… But 10+M would drastically.

By: My Financial Journey

My Financial Journey — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:30:35 +0000

I don’t care that the odds are against me. They’re against me every day. Will I wake up? Will I get hit by a bus? Will I lose my job? I’ll take those risks, and that 147,000,000 to 1 odd that I’ll become an instant millionaire.

Funny you should say that – you probably have WAY better odds of getting hit buy a bus
http://www.myfinancialjourney.com/index.php/archive/get-rich-play-the-lottery-somebody-has-to-win/

I’d find a better hobby to chear you up. I’d rather you were day-trading penny stocks than investing in scratch offs or mega million tickets. You probably have way better odds if you invested that $312 in your retirement account each year and hopefully hit the next microsoft or wal-mart to make your millions than winning it in the lottery. I dunno at $6 per week I could probably come up with 50 ways to get rich off that $6 per week that would have way better odds than the lottery.