dbverycherry
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Reged: 24/02/2007
Posts: 6546
Loc: Kent UK
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While I was standing in the Post Office today waiting to be served, to the side of me and at the magazine counter, there was a little old lady. She handed over £15 for her weekly lottery tickets!!
*First and before I go on I must point out that in posting this here I don't wish to knock those who like to have a flutter and those who buy lottery tickets.
For me personally I would rather see my money put towards and pay for a holiday. Also to pay for our two kids food while they are both at uni and the ever increasing heating bills at home.
May be if there is any left over then it will be put towards a new pair of boots for me at the end of the year 
As for me and my OH winning the lottery we never will!
Neither of us intend to buy a lottery ticket.
So we will never have the 1 in 60 million chance to win millions and to be frank we don't care to have that sort of money.
I've said this before that I have worked for a millionaire and his family and they weren't any nicer for having the money. In fact they were very worried people becasue of their wealth and constantly thought their house might broken into. Life for them brought bigger and new worries in having all that wealth.
Back to the little old lady.
 I really don't get the thought process behind gambling to this exstent.
I have a brother who played online poker and wasted the little money he has on it even putting back into playing it most of his one time winnings straight back !! He recently asked mum for a deposit on a new place to live as he hadn't enough money!! In this my brother's case I am both angry  at him and as to why?
Back to the little old lady in the Post Office.
As I got to the front and was just about to be served by the same sales assistant I heard the old lady say to her that she comes in every week.
She likes to spend the same amount and has done for all the years the lottery has been going.
The biggest amount she has won was £20 yippee!!
All I can say is the thrill of doing the lottery and the joy of winning must be amazingly wonderful considering all the ££££s she must have paid out.
Of course we must not forget there is always a hope, and the faint chance, of winning millions!
I guess if the cash is spare and not needed for anything else who does it hurt?
What do you think about doing the lottery?
Am I the only one on here that hasn't ever brought and doesn't intend to ever buy a lottery ticket?
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whitleybay
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Reged: 09/08/2008
Posts: 1152
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My OH calls the lottery a "tax on hope"
I do buy lottery tickets, every 2nd Saturday when it is my turn to get the newspapers I buy one ticket. Have I won? Yes.
Have I won lots? No. But I do enjoy thinking I might one day.
I have actually been more fortunate with Premium Bonds. I got a cheque, small, just before Christmas.
It is up to each person how they want to spend their hard earned money, it becomes sad when addiction takes over.
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Vicky123
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Reged: 22/02/2008
Posts: 2523
Loc: Essex
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Just been reading about a woman who won a million last week on a scratchcard - it cost £5 - but she couldnt afford to buy her kids prezzies for Christmas - if she cant afford prezzies thats one thing but to spend her "last" fiver on a scratchcard......jealous..........me..............nar! I won a tenner a few weeks back!
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Tigerfeet
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Reged: 29/10/2008
Posts: 1707
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If you're not in it, you can't win it....but, I don't do the lottery and I don't buy scratch cards. In the past I have done, but never won anything.
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Shiraz
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Reged: 26/03/2008
Posts: 158
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We had friends round on New Years Eve & bought £20 worth between us. We only got one number!!
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caz001
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Reged: 10/09/2008
Posts: 1089
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I do buy lottery tickets but have not won anything Yet, BUT I live in hope, I am not going to be left any money by my family and hard work alone is not going to make me my millions - my thoughts are someones got to win - "you cannot win it if you don't go in it" and the money is also going to a good cause one way or the other.
My friend won £35,000 a few weeks ago on the lottery and I have heard of a few distant people I have knowed along the way win on the lottery.
So fingers crossed for me "me thinks".
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amandajane
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Reged: 06/04/2008
Posts: 25
Loc: Wokingham Berkshire
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We buy lottery tickets, not as regularly as when they first came out, but overall we have won more than we have spent. We've never won a large amount the most was £79, also a few £40ish and some tens, we are about £50 'in credit'.
Not sure I understand the comment about millionaires and 'nicer people', I think that most people just want extra money because it makes life easier, money worries play a huge part in general unhappiness. As they say 'money can't buy happiness' but it helps.....
Regards
AJ
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kate1
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Reged: 18/08/2008
Posts: 6959
Loc: Leicestershire
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As with all gambling, the maxim is not to gamble with money you can't afford to lose.
So we spend £5 a week on the lottery.We've never won more than £10, but have won that several times, but, ok, we've lost far more than we've won, but there is always that cahnce...
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chilla
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Reged: 05/09/2008
Posts: 6302
Loc: runcorn
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i do a £1 lucky dip most weeks. You never know. Materially I don't want much. but the security of even a few hundred grand in the bank would be nice. I'd rather they made the prizes with a top value of say a million and then more people could win a life-changing amount.
Back in the early 80s, a friends parents won 46K. Not a huge amount, but they finished buying their house and went on a nice holiday and had a nice bit put by.
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I have the talent of single-minded determination and foc....hey, look, dog!
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