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[TXHokie]

"Close" only count when tossing a grenade.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: TXHokie
"Close" only count when tossing a grenade.

I always thought it was " "Close" only counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades"..

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
What, you mean there's a more efficient way to convert $1 (AND ONLY $1) into anything remotely resembling a decent amount of money?

The only investments you can make with $1... Actually, nevermind, you CAN'T make them, because of brokerage fees and such. So. Buy a soda and have 20oz of liquid nourishment for 15 minutes, or buy a lottery ticket and have 15 minutes of time invested on ATOT being told that you're an idiot for paying the stupid tax, with the extremely remote possibility of coming out the other side with tens of millions of dollars.

And yeah, yeah, yeah, I should have "saved it" - that's all cool and crap, until you look at the rest of my situation. I can't save ANYTHING. Either I use it, or it goes to paying off the nearly $25k I owe various people and institutions (car and student loans primarily, but because of my job situation, informal loans from eating lunch and buying gas are starting to pile up). A dollar isn't going to do jack ****** against that kind of balance. In the end, when it comes time to pay up, it's not going to matter if I have that dollar or not - I'm still screwed out of my mind.

In general, playing the lottery is a very, very, VERY stupid thing to do. But there comes a point where stupid becomes desperate. It's not going to do any more harm, but it can do a hell of a lot of damage. Talk to me when I've decided that this game is worth more than a dollar every month and a half. Going beyond the $1 mark is plain stupid, no matter how you look at it.

There are so many ways to respond to the above, but the important portion has been bolded.

It screams of a lifestyle indicative of a larger problem: poor (no pun intended) financial choices, spending habits, and (likely) living beyond one's means. I have a rather poor memory, but I seem to recall more than a few threads here (your personal blog, of course) regarding eating out, ordering pizza, and the like, as well as few more regarding various testosteronic hardware or electronics. Budgeting also popped up a time or two, as well as the observation that you tend to drive seemingly everywhere under the sun (which is no doubt an enormous financial burden these days).

Here are a few examples: link, link, link, etc. Others could likely be found.

All these choices and single, seemingly insignificant dollars add up; however, the spender's mentality and the confusion of needs versus wants dwindles most of that away.

Heh. Yeah, I ****** up big just a short time ago. But all that's changed. I'm on one meal a day (usually dragged from the fridge at the apartment), cut driving as much as possible (I still do a ridiculous number of miles because that's simply the nature of this area), sold every last asset I can spare (My PC is, at present, a 1.7GHz spare machine from my volunteer job), dropped as many bills as I possibly could, and ****** is still VERY, VERY, VERY in the red, simply because by nature of being unemployed and having to dole out $10k in tuition every few months (financial aid is worthless, my family is poorer than I am, and I still get approximately jack nothing).

Basically, the only things I'm still paying for are food (50%), cable internet+TV (50%, not expendible due to the bandwidth demands of my course of study), rent (50%, $150/mo), water (50%), electricity (50%), car (100%), gas (100%), tuition, books, assorted fees.

And I'd like to say that the economy in York, PA is absolutely IN THE CRAPPER. The only jobs available for a 15 mile radius are gas station attendants and fast food clerks. Even the retail stores aren't hiring.

Oh, and the camcorder thread you linked wasn't for me. It was for a freelancing/hobbyist joint venture with some friends to earn a little money on the side. And it does just that. It earns a LITTLE money on the side. Thus far, we've prettymuch made back our initial investments and that's about it. The fact that it's out of season for customers isn't helping, either.

 

[tfinch2]

404 close not found.

You didn't even match a single number.

 

[zanieladie]

Sorry you didn't win. It would be nice if someone who really NEEDS the money would win once in a while.

 

[Trikat]

Bah. Comon lotto come to NC! (The big lottos.)

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: zanieladie
Sorry you didn't win. It would be nice if someone who really NEEDS the money would win once in a while.

Yeah, 13 old bats with an office pool and state government jobs don't need that kind of money. You can only buy so many damned bingo cards.

 

[Evadman]

God has smited you in a way that you would understand you were being smited. May I recomend confession?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Evadman
God has smited you in a way that you would understand you were being smited. May I recomend confession?

Good idea. The priest down at the local church drives a Lotus Elise. He might slide me some cash

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Evadman
God has smited you in a way that you would understand you were being smited. May I recomend confession?

Good idea. The priest down at the local church drives a Lotus Elise. He might slide me some cash

I was wondering where that 10% of my income was going. At least someone can have fun with it.