Lottery Tickets

unfortunately when it comes to things other than cars im stupid.id pissright threw it again.me and money definately dont get along with each other.

 

Thats like me, the first couple times I played I won 50 also. I didn't win for the next 10 times or so.

 

If you can stick with this then you have better self discipline than many.

 

yeah scratch offs are a rip.. you also have to think about the fact that even when you win, you're probably only going to be up if you RARELY ever buy lottery tickets. if you win 50$ on one but spend $5 or more on tickets every week, then you are still losing in the end. i get it though.. the possibility of it is very exciting.

i usually go to the casino if im gonna gamble. i'll start with 5$ and play the slots.. if i lose that $5, then i will put in another 5$ but no more than that... i just bet super low, that way you play for longer and dont go bankrupt in the first 10 minutes because your sittin there hitting max bet on a 20 line quarter machine.. i usually stay on the penny or nickel machines..

ill go to the casino maybe 5-10 times a year.. i just go with a friend on occasion just for something to do. i dont have a head full of delusions about winning millions or anything, and i know when to stop.. i just do it for entertainment on rainy days. plus on the penny machines, 10$ gets you usually a solid 2 hours of play.. so its a good way to kill time. some people get wayyy to into the slot machines though... ive seen a guy at like 4:30 am exchanging pennys and dimes and shit to the casino cashier so he could get one last dollar bill to play in the machine.. that was actually pretty sad. on slot machines it can start to feel like a video game... you just keep hittin these buttons and watch shit happen on the screen.. its easy to forget thats REAL MONEY you are playing with. gotta always keep that in mind

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

It's exactly like the rules of Vegas.

When you've won, stop playing.

 

when I won that jackpot in vegas I kept playing and putting money back in the safe. it was a win win

 

jen is the vegas master

 

I worked with a guy who would buy $5 worth of scratchers every night.
Saw the S.O.B. win $1500 dollars and three days later win $1000. Then he says "Must be a lucky week, the wife won $300 yesterday." I just said F.U.!
He won over $8000 in six months of scratchers.
I never win shit!
Although when I started work for a retail drug chain in 2000, my first month there was a big annual managers meeting for all of So Cal.
At the end they were giving away BestBuy gift cards.
Every time they called out a ticket number, I was breathless with hopes of winning something, anything.
It got down to the last ticket and I was getting my stuff together to leave and they called the number, I didn't even really listen. My manager who was sitting next to me said "What number do you got?" I just sighed and lazily looked at my ticket.
I had the winning number!!!
I go up to the stage to collect my prize and everyone was like "Who the fuck is this guy?!"
It was a $500 gift card
Good Christmas that year because it was just about this time of year.

 

damn right.

 

i used to manage a convenience store and one of the worst aspects of the job was the lottery. i hated everything about it. the real eye-opener was getting the annual report from the lottery people saying "we paid out X-amount of money this year to lotto players.... we took in Y-amount of money as profit" the "Y" amount was a few million, or even billion more than what was paid out. straight up and down, it's a fucking business run by the state. they're in it to make money, hands down. and they do. big time.

and the look in people's eyes when they're eyeing up the scratch off tickets... ugh, horrible to see. it's depressing. and some people would play until they "got the doubler" symbol. even if they won, they were still pissed - they didnt get the doubler.

of all the people i've asked how they make out in the end, AT BEST people have told me "oh, i about break even...." they've all got stories of winning big here and there, but for all the money they've spent playing it doesnt work out in their favor.

seeing it all "behind the scenes" somewhat, i'll tell you it's a fucking rip-off. totally not worth it. i can understand to do it on your birthday or something, for a special occassion, or when the drawing lotto jackpot gets crazy high, but assume you're going to lose. chances are you will. if you win, great. just DONT BUY ANOTHER TICKET with your winnings. that's mistake #1. of all the times that people bought more tickets with their winnings, they walked out of the store with nothing most of the time. if you feel like throwing away money, throw it away to a good cause - give it to a local charity or straight to someone who you know needs it. buy a friend some groceries. anything but give it to the state.

fuckers... preying on the citizens...

 

Why do you act surprised and indignant about that???
It has never been a secret that it is a source of revenue for the state.
That is why most states have a lottery. Would you rather they raise state taxes to make revenue to keep the streets in decent shape or any of the many other services that you make use of every day?

Bitching about that fact says more about you than it does about the state.

 

It's a true test of patience being stuck in a check-out line behind what I see as a serial lottery addict... dropping as much as $100 or more on a variety of tickets... buying different games and monopolizing the cashier's buy pacing the transaction as the whole deal unfolds $2 at a time while people behind in line gather dust waiting...

It's an addiction to some.

 

Well- it seems a tad predatory but I have no problems if a state run lottery in fact bridges budget gaps that might otherwise be addressed through more taxation.

 

:iagree:

It`s pretty much common knowlege that you don`t have a very good chance of hitting it big, and if people choose to waste money on a dream, I`m happy to keep the money that would otherwise be grabbed from my pocket.:2thumbsup:

 

If I remember correctly (it's been ages since I spent any $$ on lottery) but here in Ca. they have a number for gamblers anon. or some such thing and warnings about gambling on the tickets.

 

using this as a jumping off point- i philosophize.
if it is a predatory practice, look at the prey. you can be the fastest gazelle, or the dead one. considering humans are mostly protected from survival of the fittest in the physical sense, it is interesting to look at it in other ways.
who is the most financially fit? who survives? why? who else is financially weak, getting pulled down by their rump/ wallet.

you could also look at it in food/ nutrition. who just buys whats cheap, instead of what is healthy? companies/ governments prey upon the poor and dumb, animals prey upon the slow and weak.

/a conclusion is just the place where someone got tired of thinking.

 

i've seen people in line at the convenience store blow 50 bucks on tickets. i would buy the occasional ticket, but i don't even bother because i can't compete with that

 

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