Mega Millions

Wags · #21 03/31/12, 05:57 PM

I spent $2 - figured its cheap entertainment and it gave me something to think about when I was sitting up all night with a doe in labor. My big win fantasy - a barn with power (light & HEAT) and a bathroom!

jefferson · #22 03/31/12, 08:06 PM

I got up this morning expecting to be a half bil richer. Oh well, I expected to see a choice in better government too................................

time · #23 03/31/12, 08:31 PM

Spent 30 won 7 between two couples. 50% split.

People spend hundreds or thousand at casino's and race tracks to win hundreds or maybe thousands.

Lottery is small potatoes with a lifechanging(good or bad) payout.

At the horse races you can drop $2 on the favorite and win $2.20 on a win ticket. The odds are decent of winning, but you lose a much greater percentage than the possible payout if you lose.

Tricky Grama · #24 04/01/12, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Darntootin

Its fun to dream.

Yup. & if you don't buy a ticket, no dreamin'. We bought TWO! Got 1 # right.

greg273 · #25 04/01/12, 07:59 AM

One of the winning tickets was sold in a gas station about fifteen miles from here, in the small town of Red Bud, Illinois. The winner has not stepped forward yet... I know a few people down there, no one I know has any clue who it is yet...
This is definitely good for the local economy, though.

unregistered168043 · #26 04/01/12, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Paumon

Because so many other people were doing the exact same thing and sometimes it's fun to share common ground and goals with other people and be a part of the collective.

fantasymaker · #27 04/01/12, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Darntootin

I only need a square mile of woods, streams and fields to live my dream...maybe two.

Hum That might be a bit more than a buck but very doable.

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Originally Posted by greg273

One of the winning tickets was sold in a gas station about fifteen miles from here, in the small town of Red Bud, Illinois. The winner has not stepped forward yet... I know a few people down there, no one I know has any clue who it is yet...
This is definitely good for the local economy, though.

WOW REALLY?
I gotta go check my ticket.

Bret · #28 04/02/12, 10:41 AM

I went to bed afraid that I would win and my life as I know it would come to an end and that there would be a large crowd outside my home when I woke up.

I was glad when I woke up and resumed the day as normal. Life is good.

Scott SW Ohio · #29 04/02/12, 11:52 AM

I'm sorry nobody here won the big jackpot. But at least you had fun playing, and the money went for a good cause.

I'm too cheap to buy lotto tickets, but my older brother buys them occasionally. When there's a huge payoff looming I can just dream that he wins it and gives everyone in the family a million.

emdeengee · #30 04/02/12, 12:21 PM

We play the lottery - a couple of dollars every week or couple of weeks. We buy tickets when we think of it. The operative word is "play" It is just fun. Like buying an ice cream cone. We never buy more tickets just because the prize is super big. We figure if we win something, we win. So far over the years we have won quite a few $10 prizes and one $100 prize and a $47 share of a prize which in no way equals what we have spent - but again it is just fun. And one thing for sure - you will never win if you don't have a ticket and somebody does win. We lived in a small town of 5000 people and 2 won million dollar prizes over an 8 year time span and a woman who worked with my husband won a million $ and $100,000.

Yvonne's hubby · #31 04/02/12, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott SW Ohio

I'm sorry nobody here won the big jackpot. But at least you had fun playing, and the money went for a good cause.

I'm too cheap to buy lotto tickets, but my older brother buys them occasionally. When there's a huge payoff looming I can just dream that he wins it and gives everyone in the family a million.

Ahhhh yes... if only the money was going to a good cause.... public education??? not all that great in my state anyway.

I do like that last line though.... one pipe dream is as good as any other.

Scott SW Ohio · #32 04/02/12, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Yvonne's hubby

Ahhhh yes... if only the money was going to a good cause.... public education??? not all that great in my state anyway.

I do like that last line though.... one pipe dream is as good as any other.

Sorry to hear that, but we have room for you up north of the river, YH. We've got pretty good schools and a hard-fisted no-nonsense Republican governor, too - right up your alley. So what's keeping you, future Buckeye?

Yvonne's hubby · #33 04/02/12, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Scott SW Ohio

Sorry to hear that, but we have room for you up north of the river, YH. We've got pretty good schools and a hard-fisted no-nonsense Republican governor, too - right up your alley. So what's keeping you, future Buckeye?

I lived up nawth for a while... tanks, but no tanks.

Webster

Buckeye- noun

A worthless nut of no commercial value.

Ken Scharabok · #34 04/02/12, 03:55 PM

To me it more or less a hobby.

Ken Scharabok

legacy · #35 04/02/12, 06:04 PM

What I think is most interesting is that a lot of people won't play the lottery until it reaches some sort of insane amount, like $500 million. Otherwise, they don't care if it's only a few million.

Point being, a few million bucks don't get people excited but $500 million sends them into six-hour waiting lines in California from folks coming in from Nevada (I met a woman who saw this recently. The lottery is illegal in Navada.)

I dont get it. If I was a big dreamer -- and that's what it take to play this game against incredible odds -- I'd play weekly, no matter the purse.

plowjockey · #36 04/03/12, 10:34 AM

I had not heard about it, until traveleing to Montana this week, saw a hand written sign, INSIDE THE RESTROOM, on the mirror, at a MN convenience store (or was it WI?).

Got in for $1, when it was still a measly $480 million.

No way would I ever wait to buy a lottery ticket.

I didn't win.