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(Plus, Dennis can't fuss at me 'cause the topic's in the subject line!)

Down here (SC) everyone has lottery fever! When the guy in West Virginia won the 315 Million, practically the whole state was on the brink of despair.

I went to the gas station, filled up, and then went in to pay. There was an older gentleman (maybe early 60's) buying 100 dollars worth of lotto tickets! Now, I don't consider myself "poor", but I'm certainly not in the upper percentile. But I cannot understand someone throwing away that much money when the odds are so astronomical AGAINST you.

I can see the flippant 5 buck buy. "Oh well, you can't win if you dont play"-type thing. But 100, 200, and in some cases 500 dollars worth of chances? What am I missing here?

But getting back to topic, what would you do with the money if, say, you won and the lump sum payment was an even 100 million dollars?

Food for thought, eh?

Chuck

 

You do know that the Lottery is a tax for people who have poor math skills, right?! If you look at the odds and still feel lucky, well, step right up and pay us your hard earned money. I have noticed that, at least in Northern Va, that the majority of players are on the lower side of the prosperity scale... money they could use for important things seems to get spent on Lottery tickets.

The Lottery Commision should have their own store front instead of selling tickets out of the convenience store. Most mornings it takes about four minutes to get my coffee and pay for it. Getting the coffee takes about 27 seconds. The rest of that four minutes is spent standing behind one person who is purchasing 35 tickets for the night's big drawing.

If magic should ever happen, and I win the Lottery without actually playing it(the Lotto odds are so high that it's already quite possible!), I would quit work. Anybody that says they would still work after winning several million dollars is either lying or a fool.
I know that I could find plenty of things to keep me busy until my dying day!

 

well since i am a truck driver if i won the lottery i could aford to keep driving!! lol just kidding i know i would keep driving but i would now own my own big bright (alot of chicken lights) truck and be able to take the loads when and where i want that my friends would be heaven for me wake up Bill wake up!!!

 

No, anyone who says they'd continue working is not lying. They just would have the freedom to go out and find a job they like instead of one they can have. I know exactly what I would do with lottery if I won it.

1) Buy me a new Ford truck or a Dodge Viper, or both.
2) Buy my mother the big diesel truck she wants (a Dodge Ram...but hey it's what she wants so I won't argue too much, she'll be paying for it when it breaks not me).
3) Buy my baby sis whatever kind of car she wants, (being from me, something sporty with the options she wants of course).
4) Send my dad's 75 3/4 ton Chevy to a shop to have it professionally restored and add everything he wants to it (he's got his baby like I've got mine even if it is a Chevy).
5) Take my 79 in and have all the junk I want done to it done.
6) Move the heck outta here...Don't know where and really don't care just somewhere besides this part of West Tx.
7) Make sure my sis gets thru school and my parents get out of their trailer house and my grandmother doesn't have to worry about her house anymore and what's going to break next. If there's anything left, she'll get a new car and my uncle will get a good SUV so he can drive all over the country to go gold hunting and waste the money he doesn't have.
8) My best friend and I made a deal in High School, If she won first, she'd buy me a viper or a truck and if I won first, I'd buy her a corvette. She's a ford mustang driver but she wants a vette and I'm sure her husband wouldn't mind that either so I'd have to keep that part of the bargain too.

Hmm...I may not have anything left if I win the lottery to live on...Guess I'd have to keep working.....


Thanx!
Connie (only Ford luvr in the family!)

'79 f100 "Silver Ghost" (my baby)
'83 f100 "The Ford" (my first)
'85 f150 "Old Blue" (my next project)

 

I never buy lottery tickets but recently I bought my first one. I was called for jury duty that day and was among 203 people who showed up. They announced that they needed 200 jurors for the several courts and started to call names from a list that had been randomly selected. I was the 203'rd name on the list and was excused. I thought that it must be my luckey day so I dropped a buck on a ticket - I must have used up my daily luck supply at the court house.
Dono

 

Did anybody ever think about the fact that if you buy 100 tickets you are guaranteeing that 99 of them will be losers? Only one ticket of that bunch can win unless they all have the same numbers and even then you would just split the prize between them all.

 

If you buy 100 tickets your chances of winning are, 100 to a billion (or whatever the odds are) as apposed to 1 to a billion.

Still horrible odds but 100 times better than one.

 

I saw a man put down 150$ for tickets once when our lotto was almost at 100 milllion (personaly i thought the guy was crazy).Myself i'll play a buck or two here and there but i have better things to spend my money on like my Kid's,Truck,House,eTc.




Wiz

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Chuck, I have to buy a ticket first!!!

Yea, I know it does lead to some sweet day dreams. But reality is always there to put me in my place.

I have never purchased a ticket. But if I did and won...

Call my lawyer and tell him to channel the calls based on my directions.

Buy a plane, probably a nice 172 or 177. I could always upgrade as my skills improved.

A nicer home. Limit myself to no more than $250,000 in costs. Yes, this one would be tough, but it must be done.

Take my F250LD and have it tuned to a Lightning package. Make it look stock.

Purchase a new Crown Vic and if it tweaked with the blower and handling stuff.

Invest, invest, invest.

Not to disregard the tithing aspect either. That's a given.

 

I myself usually $5 a drawing. I know there has to be more players here than seem willing to admit.

Did anyone stop to think that the older gentleman referenced earlier might have been buying for a group. Such as workmates, possibly church group or maybe a retirement center.

I have gotten together with the guys I work with to buy group tickets. Out of the 5-8 that chip in we buy anywhere from 100-200 dollars worth.It adds up fast.

Now,if only OUR numbers would come in.

 

let's see, your odds are 1 in 350,000 that you will get hit by lightening and 1 in about 45 million that you'll will enough to pay your hospital bill

I have a financial whiz(ard) neighbor that only buys a ticket when the payout is over 100 million. I guess 75 million isn't worth his bother or it won't pay off his mobile home and the Chevy dealers repair bills,

 

I don't think we'll ever see a lottery with a payout anywhere near what you guys get in the states. Here in BC, the lottery is controlled by the government and the average is between five and ten million. We had one recently that was at 25 million. Nobody won and the next week it was back to five! Wonder where the other 20 million went.

I don't even consider buying a ticket for a draw under ten million, and then I might buy one in a weak moment. I work too hard for my money to throw it away!

I read recently that some 17% of the Canadian population expect their retirement funds to come from lottery winnings. That's 4.25 million people! Pretty sad!:-X23

 

A lot of people think that their odds of winning the lottery depend on the number of people who buy tickets.
That has nothing to do with it. That only has a bearing on the odds of being the SOLE winner.
A persons chance of winning the lottery depends upon the number of possible number combinations available on a given ticket.
Suppose that the number of possible combinations is 350,000,000. No matter how many tickets are sold, to how many people, each ticket has only a 1 in 350,000,000 chance of winning.
Even if you hold the only ticket sold, your odds are 1 in 350,000,000, not 1 in 1.
I knew there was a reason I don't play the lottery.

 

315 Million? To one guy? Stupid, methinks.

Why not have 315 ONE MILLION dollar winners?

1 million is enough money to completely ruin someone's life anyway.

I'm not a gambler, so I don't play.

BUT...

If I did win something like that, I think that 100 grand is enough to set me up until retirement. (I'm still a youngster)
That amount would keep me accountable, knowing that is all there is. I would be forced to make wise decisions, and of course I would have to still work.

The rest would go to children in some way. Probably help pay scholarships for music and arts education. Music is my number one passion.