Do you play 6/49 or other lotteries?

[tboy]

The odds are better than getting struck by lightning, people win every week and you don't hear that many getting zapped.
The most I've won in the last 40 years is $10 so I figure I'm overdue to win the big one. :bs:

that's how they keep you coming back......

As for lighting, this site says it's between 120 and 190 so that's what, every couple of days? That's a lot more than there are winners....

https://www.currentresults.com/Natural-Hazards/Storms/lightning-801231.php

Without getting into the exact figures. If you play $10 per week x 52 weeks = $520 per yr x 40 yrs that's $20800. If you'd invested that money into say, Canadian Tire stock, you'd have about $200,000.00 today. Or if you'd invested in gold, $768,000.00

Now that isn't taking into consideration that you wouldn't have all of the $20,000 at the beginning, but just for an example. There are MUCH better investments than lotteries.

There was a program on the tube about winners in the US. Except for a select few, most of the winner's lives were totally fucked up by winning. Many were broke (worse than before they won) within a couple of years. There were a couple who started foundations etc with their money and a couple who spent their money wisely but not many....

 

[Coxwell]

I only spent $2 each time, not even every week. It's just a little thrill, a few moments thinking of what I'd do with a few million bucks. But I guess it's totalled a bit over a thousand bucks over 40 years.

My winnings will be spent wisely, if I win the big one I'll divide it equally among my brothers, sisters... nieces and nephews when they're over 30. Nothing for cousins and just gifts for my Mom.
If anyone destroys their life, I'm the only likely candidate. :spiteful:

 

[tboy]

well, take gold for example, if you'd invested in it you'd have $4000 for your $1000 investment...just saying.....

It's the "dream" that keeps them taking your money yet billions never see that dream or even a glimmer of it. Just think, if 1/3 the population spends $2.00 per week that's $22 million a week being spent...per WEEK. That's almost $1.2 billion annually....and what do they pay out? Maybe 5% of that......There's not many industries that can state a 95% profit......

Seriously, it's just a scam, nothing more.

I remember back in the day Canadian Tire ran a contest via Hockey Night In Canada. You had to watch during the first period, a CTC commercial would come on and a number would be shown at the bottom. To get a number you had to spend X amount at CTC or something like that.

I saw the VP of marketing driving around in a fancy new LeBaron convertible. I asked him about it as that was the grand prize in the contest. He told me they only gave away 1% of the prizes because people just didn't match the numbers.

Kind of like how McDonald's got into trouble over their Monopoly game. There were certain pieces they only printed 1 of and then it was possible that those pieces never got distributed because they were randomly mixed in the french fry containers and it was possible that they never even left the warehouse......

It would be far better for people to form a "corporation" and put all the money they spend on lotteries into an investment account.

Yeah, people win....do you personally know anyone who has? I knew someone back in the 70s who won 3 times with Wintario...they won a camaro, $10,000 and $50,000 but that was 40 yrs ago......

 

[tboy]

Why I'm so against lotteries:

When I was 12 or so I had a buddy. He was the oldest of 4 kids. They lived in a dump. An absolute dump. They wore the crappiest clothes possible. Their shoes barely lasted a school year. I remember him wearing boots to school where the sole was held in place with duct tape.

His mom was always crying poor.

Then one day we were looking for a pair of scissors and his mom told us to look in her desk drawer. We went up and opened the middle drawer and found it filled to overflowing with wintario tickets.

We counted them out on her bed. I seem to recall there was 5000 of them and they were all for that year and this was just before school started. Therefore she had spent $5,000.00 from Jan - Aug. yet here he was wearing socks with holes in them and worn out jeans. In today's dollars that is like $20,000.00 today......

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Part of the shame of the OLG is that it preys on people's weaknesses.
It's how modern government and taxation is run.
I'm amazed that they haven't already gotten into the illicit drug and prostitution businesses on the platform of "protecting us from ourselves" .