Do you buy lottery tickets?

[0o]

i think its a waste

 

[Ryan]

Hell no - it's all a ploy.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

In california, only when the jack pot is bigger than 42.4 million dollars. See other post for explanation.

 

[brunswickite]

Never.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Do those scratch & win tickets count?

 

[sonz70]

always, spend at least a 100$ a week on pro-line/lottery ect, usually make it back on pro-line

 

[0o]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Do those scratch & win tickets count?

added poll option for you

 

[jadinolf]

Last Lottery tickets I bought was in August of 1998.
What a waste.

 

[TBone48]

No. It's just a not-so-hidden extra tax.

 

[sygyzy]

BAN!

 

[Bassyhead]

no

 

[redgtxdi]

I entered "no" in the poll, but to be honest.............

My wife's company will occasionally do "group" buys when the pot gets big enough.......($100M or more) and I have done that before.

 

[0o]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
BAN!

why did I do something wrong?

I am sorry if I did, please do not ban me I love this place...

 

[mdchesne]

Originally posted by: 0o

Originally posted by: sygyzy
BAN!

why did I do something wrong?

I am sorry if I did, please do not ban me I love this place...

yea, stop posting useless posts with polls

do yourself a favor and look up "neffer"

 

[BigJ]

I buy scratch-offs every now and then.

We have a lotto pool at work and we throw in $2 a piece each week.

It's really not that much money and it's fun when you do win something even if it doesn't cover what you lost in the past.

 

[Muadib]

Yes, I play the equivalent of 2 six packs a week. I've won about $2500 over the last 5 years.

 

[mrrman]

I play $4 every week

 

[Yzzim]

No

It's just a tax on people who are bad at math.

 

[SilentZero]

Won $200 from a scatch off kind about 10 years ago, but haven't played since.

 

[badmouse]

Yes. I buy one ticket at a time, on a regular basis, and consider it an entertainment expense. For a short amount of time, I can fantasize about winning. Occasionally i win a few bucks. I figure I'm pretty close to even.

 

[BW86]

sometimes.

 

[simms]

My department won two weeks ago. 2 million between 11 of them, 168K for each person. $2/week.

One of those winners' mom's actually won money for life, she won $600K.
In Ontario, all the money is TAX FREE, so her family made $700K in two weeks.

Yes, they have had calls. They are smart people, one of the winners is a ChemE.

 

[Stretchman]

Me too. I love reading follow up stories about Lotto winners. Some lose it all very quickly, while others are smart.

You'd be amazed how people will FIND YOU and ask for money if you allow the papers to publish your name.

 

[brtspears2]

A few bucks when the jackpot hits over $40 million on CA Super Lotto and $175 million on Mega Millions.

I've heard the odds of you getting killed buying the tickets is better than the actual odds of winning the lotto.

 

[Sketcher]

I buy a ticket once in a while. It's a little entertainment if nothing else.