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No, I put my spare cash directly in the trash bin. It saves a trip to the 7-11. 
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Haven't bought a lottery ticket in about 10-15 years. Used to get the occasional Powerball ticket when the grand prize hit 9 digits but never won anything.
Like Debi I prefer a casino, but I skip slot machines and go for the cards. But I haven't done that in about 20 years. The last time I was at a casino with a friend and took $20 to the blackjack table, after about 40 minutes I had a stack of chips totalling just under $90 when my friend came over and asked where the ATM was. I immediately walked away from my hot streak to keep him out of trouble.
Like Debi I prefer a casino, but I skip slot machines and go for the cards. But I haven't done that in about 20 years. The last time I was at a casino with a friend and took $20 to the blackjack table, after about 40 minutes I had a stack of chips totalling just under $90 when my friend came over and asked where the ATM was. I immediately walked away from my hot streak to keep him out of trouble.
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I won ten bucks on a scratch-off once, but being two hours away from anyplace I could cash it in, it became a bonus for the State of Idaho. No lotteries in Utah and now Idaho is dropping out due to some manufactured, political paranoia, it so I guess Wyoming is now the closest place to buy tickets. Too far and especially in winter with dicey road conditions.
Wendover, NV, is only an hour away so I'll have to fill any future gambling desire with a casino visit and say goodbye to Lotto.
Wendover, NV, is only an hour away so I'll have to fill any future gambling desire with a casino visit and say goodbye to Lotto.
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When the lottery amount builds up to some insane figure I buy a couple and we daydream about WHAT IF!!!. That way we always get our money's worth from it. I never play scratch-off tickets. If I get the urge to throw away 5 dollars I will just give it to a bum so he can buy some wine. That way someone besides the state that runs the lottery gets to be a winner. I like to gamble but I want to play something that I can have some control over. I love poker. I've sat and played with 4 or 5 generations of my family when I was a kid.
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“The Lottery, with its weekly payout of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles [working class] paid serious attention … Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
- George Orwell, "1984"
- George Orwell, "1984"