play the lottery

Buying the ticket is worth it because of the time spent fantasizing about how you would spend the money. For that short period of time you are a millionaire.

I sometimes play the large lotteries. I realize that I’m more likely to get struck by lightning multiple times but you can’t win if you don’t play.

so I don’t bother to waste my $$. I’ve also thought through the what ifs on winning a super big payout and decided that it would probably ruin my life (as it seems to ruin most winners). Relationships are more important to me than $$.

along with my loser tickets

You can’t win if you don’t play

It will never be considered a source of income, because we’d starve, but it is a source of entertainment. :)

...but it cracks me up every time:

“The lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.”

My aunt won about $5,000 on a pick-six once, and I know someone else who won something like $500. Both were on $1 tickets. I’m going to say this is worth it.

It’s a nice little thrill, as long as you don’t go too crazy.

I won $350 000. Worth it, I’d say.

Big waste of money…

I find it a waste of money. I worked at a Convenience store once and there were a few guys addicted to gambling, and they would come in every day and spend 100 dollars at the least on tickets and sometimes they would win but most of the time they lost and sometimes they would play until they won but not gaining all their money back when they did.. One night this guy bought 500 dollars worth of Nevada tickets and only won about 200! Its just a waste of money I think