Saw this at the gas station today. That's a big number. I usually say the lottery is for chumps, but I might have to try my luck on this one.
Win a million bucks? Pay off the house, take a nice vacation and invest the rest because I really am that boring. Win the big one and walk away with half a billion? I have no idea what I'd do with that. But I'm sure I could find something.
Last edited by Darth_Uno; 10-18-2018 at 08:10 AM.
Already got two tickets, I will make ToddG's memorial get together something to behold if I win it all!
Your chances of winning were zero before, they're just zero now with a slightly different jackpot number.
If you guys would save $2 every week for life it'd be a far more effective use than donating it to a pointless cause. If you don't want to save it donating it to me would also be exponentially more rewarding, I can even say "you're a loser" every time you give it to me for that full lottery experience.
Seriously just go buy a couple candy bars or something and reap the caloric reward, lotteries are dumb as hell.
Last edited by Peally; 10-18-2018 at 09:36 AM.
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I get more than enough entertainment value out of rolling the (very tiny chance) dice for a half billion dollars to make it worthwhile.
Makes for great dinner conversation with the wife and kids. "What would YOU do with that much dinero?"...
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Odds don't mean shit to the guy eaten by the bear, or the guy who wins 900 fucking million dollars.
All lotteries in NM pay a pretty substantial chunk into a college scholarship, which in its early days paid a chunk of my college tuition.
So every once in awhile I'll spend a couple bucks on it and dream. When I lose, I'm just putting a little back into the pot that gave a dumbass 18 year old me several thousand dollars.
My general rule of thumb is
-Is the jackpot over 100M
-Do I feel like it
If the answer is 'yes' then I'll spend a few more bucks on a ticket or three at a gas station when I'm grabbing an energy drink or something.
Last edited by JRB; 10-18-2018 at 10:51 AM.
I don't buy lottery tickets every week. Sometimes when the jackpot gets stupid huge I'll blow a few bucks on tickets. Only a few. It's not the odds, it's the stakes.
Risk/reward. It’s $2 for an astronomically slim chance, but the payoff is an honest to goodness fortune that I’ll never make otherwise. I think I read you’re more likely to survive a plane crash and get hit by lightning as you stumble from the wreckage than match the numbers.
I know some scratcher fiends and those guys can piss away some money.
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Personally, that’s not a bad retirement plan.
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