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My mother expecting me to be exited and or care about lottery tickets
It's like, really? I know enough to know what a ripoff and waste of time and money those things are.
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"exited"?
Is she the sort of person who could actually have fun in a casino and not start thinking "this is a waste of time in money" on repeat after stepping in the door?
Nothing wrong with getting a few lottery tickets. Someone always wins.
Well, given the events of the last two days, there's nothing wrong with being gifted lottery tickets, provided the giver didn't go in on them too hard. I got $5 in tickets in my Christmas stocking, and I've ended a little gambling spree with $25. Could've ended with $53, but I was having fun with it, without worrying too much about the end result or investment, aiming just a bit higher because there was nothing to lose.
My point is, if I have 5 bucks to spend on whatever, and there is a huge lotto in my state or whatever, I'll probably buy some numbers with that 5.
The small lotteries are fun, at least. Anything that lets you scratch. And, most importantly in my opinion, that you don't spend your own money on. There are some tickets out there that don't have you scratch them off, can you believe that?
At least if I buy the number insteads of burning the money, I might get a lot more money back. And never have to work again.
All Nines is right, the smaller ones are more fun. I've won 200 bucks.
You'd still most likely be better off just sticking the money in your savings for a rainy day.
You are far more likely to die in a car accident on your way to buy it.
Lottery winners who take that attitude almost always end up destitute.
Now, playing the smaller ones just for fun I can understand. But if you actually you have a chance of winning the larger ones, you're basically just wrong.
"Almost", "Likely". These are the things I hear.
And I can assure you, if I won, I would make sure I have plenty of financial advice so that I do not end up destitute.
That's what they all say.
Greed is a powerful and dangerous thing.
It's not "unlikely" in the sense of rolling a six on a die. It's "unlikely" in the sense that I am unlikely to be killed by a meteor strike while typing this post.
They would tell you to get a job because you didn't actually win enough money for a lifetime.
Bleghhh.
I guess I don't care. I'll just keep being stupid then. But you don't have to tell me what I already know.
Okay, you know what? Here, have a page-breaking image.
In that case, better buck up your life insurance, kiddo, 'coz you might just get struck by lightning tomorrow.
So might you. So might anyone.
And PLEASE don't call me kiddo :V
That is precisely the point. Anyone might be struck by lightning. Nobody bothers taking precautions because of how unlikely it is.
In the same way, it is infinitely more likely to benefit you if you just stick the money in a jar and pull out the jar when you have to service your car, or when you need to buy more bread or something.
Not infinitely. Just a lot more.
I don't have a problem with, say, my parents playing the lottery, because they make enough money to make a living and take care of daily stuff with money to spare, so what's another dollar a week to indulge foolish hope? Someone who's still in/coming off of college and working low-wage shouldn't probably waste their time or (their own) money on it, though.
135,145,919 times more likely, to be absolutely pedantic.
It all adds up to "Spending money on lottery tickets is basically a giant waste of money".
You'd probably do better to just roll up the bills, burn them, and inhale the smoke. There's a chance you might get high off it, after all; much more likely to do something for you.
^ That's thousands of dollars over the course of a lifetime.
^ I don't like smoking.
Then make it into an airplane and enter a paper airplane throwing competition. The chance that a lucky breeze will swoop along and push your plane to winning is still higher than the chance you will win the lottery.
You aren't going to win, but if you're having fun...
^^ Is there a prize?
^ But I might win.
[(30,000-ish - 52) * rest of your life] isn't that much smaller than [(30,000-ish * rest of your life], especially when more than one person is part of a financial situation. The scale isn't quite as large as winning the jackpot:not, but it's still not very significant, especially for those who make more than that as it is. Keep in mind that I'm not saying you should spend big on the lottery in any case. No one should be taking $20 out of pocket for the lottery.
The prize is a model plane. You could probably sell it on e-Bay for a dollar.
^ It is not that significant, but it is still a pointless waste of money. For that money, you could just save it and treat your family to a movie once a year.