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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsToday is my last day of playing lottery
I might play if the pot goes way up, but we've played close to 50 years, and I realize that I'm not going to win. I wanted to win a big pot and be Lady Bountiful. But I will be Lady Bountiful on the scale I'm used to. Life goes on
XanaDUer2
(10,751 posts)A few times a month. Won some money the other month. Not a lot.
brewens
(13,622 posts)guy that was still working while all his buddies or co-workers retired rich.
JoseBalow
(2,477 posts)lastlib
(23,303 posts)You have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice in the same year. It's also undemocratic at its core, elevating a small few to wealth entirely by chance.
jimfields33
(15,974 posts)Why not 36 million dollar winners? Heck 565,000 dollars (after taxes) can definitely change lives.
Think. Again.
(8,432 posts)...Lady Bountiful. You just don't happen to have lots of money.
Marthe48
(17,035 posts)I had fantasies
gibraltar72
(7,512 posts)Not big pots but smaller ones in Mi. lottery. Several $5,000 winners lots of $600 dollar winners. It was uncanny. They didn't buy lots of tickets either. Both retired, they were way ahead.
Emile
(22,944 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)I have just about the same chance of winning if I don't buy any tickets at all.
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)We were on a family vacation and the kids were interested in the lottery. I bought 20 scratch-off tickets and told them that if they won, we would keep buying them. They were sure they would get rich. By the time we reached Dizzy World, they were broke. I don't think my kids have played again. I know I haven't. In my 72 years the only thing that I can recall "winning" was a nice Sony boom box in a Coca Cola promotion.
I am not opposed to a little gambling, but only in a game where I get to shuffle, deal, watch the other playersand get to see who wins when the hand is called.