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By: Don’t You Love Finding Money? » My New Choice

Don’t You Love Finding Money? » My New Choice — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:09:49 +0000

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By: Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge / Mega Millions Lottery Sucker

Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge / Mega Millions Lottery Sucker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:26:23 +0000

[...] read a post at My New Choice where he talks about getting to know his co-workers and their thoughts about money by talking about their aspirations for lottery winnings. I have to [...]

By: mnc

mnc — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:42:49 +0000

Absolutely! I would never consider playing if the money was not coming out of my weekly spending money.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:39:04 +0000

That saying, still it is a game, and it should not stop you totally from throwing in once in a while. Whatever the case, just make sure that it is not money required for your next meal, or the baby’s milk!

By: mnc

mnc — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:48:39 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. The people that buy tickets regularly could retire a millionaire if they took that same money and invested it wisely every week.

As I said in the post, I know that I am basically throwing away my $10 but it came out of my regular spending money so I am not too concerned about.

But this reminds me, I need to go check the numbers.

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:37:59 +0000

People once told me, ” Playing in lottery gives you hope, and a ticket of chance. Not playing at all means a big FAT zero of hope.”

Even more simple-minded people would say, it is a 50-50 win. Either you win, or you don’t. I for one believes that if one takes the number of times multiplied by the cost of each ticket that you buy in your life time, you would have been able to do more useful things than that.

Although, the winners of these lottery would definitely think ‘differently’.