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Should I rush out and buy a lottery ticket?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
edited August 2018 in The potting shed
I dropped a piece of marmalade-slathered toast on the floor this morning.
Before it landed, it flipped over so it was dry side down!
Is this my lucky day or was that it?
Should I buy a lottery ticket?
Ps: D means whatever you like. I couldn't delete it
In London. Keen but lazy.

Should I rush out and buy a lottery ticket? 20 votes

Yes
25%
AuntyRachPerkiDyersEndBeefleySonnieB 5 votes
No
45%
Hostafan1LynSinging GardenerLG_plant pauperJoyce21raisingirljosusa47Hampshire Hog 9 votes
D
30%
nutcutletPapi JoherbaceousFireMary370LauraRoslin 6 votes
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    D
    I voted D.
    :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I voted yes ... 'cos you're kind and generous and you'll remember your gardening friends when you win  :D<3

    That reminds me ... unusually for me I bought a ticket last week ... I'd better check it soon and see if I'm a millionaire  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Knowing you lot, I've an idea it will be mostly Ds.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Gardening a little while back, a bird cacked squarely on my head so, immediately after washing it, I went out and bought a lottery ticket. It’s not lucky ... sigh.
    Rutland, England
  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730
    Yes
    I voted yes too. In fact you should buy 2 because luck runs in threes doesn't it?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    No
    If you spent as much time standing at a till in Waitrose selling lottery tickets every week, to the same people, checking their tickets and tearing them up and sticking them in the bin: you'd never buy a lottery ticket.
    The only people who "win" the lottery are Camelot.

    "In the longer term, the report found, while money for charitable causes raised by the lottery had climbed by 2% between 2009-10 and 2016-17, over the same period Camelot’s profits increased by 122%, from £39m to £71m."
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/05/camelot-profits-surge-as-money-for-good-causes-declines-pac-report 
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    No
    I once had a customer hand me a fistful of tickets to check. It took me 20 minutes to drop them through the machine. 
    I'd say there must have been £400-£500 worth of tickets ( many had 5 lines on them ) and his total winnings? £47.50!!
    Devon.
  • No
    I gave up on lotters years ago I now give just to the local lifeboat stations I ask them what they specifically need or want and pay for it, that way they get all the donation no middle man and the HQ dont take there  little  big bit.
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2018
    D
    .
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    My father smugly used to say he had won the lottery, meaning he hadn’t wasted his money buying a ticket. I have the opposite view - I can easily afford £2 per week and I enjoy the occasional fantasy moments speculating on how I would spend my winnings. And even if I never hit the jackpot, I get massive enjoyment seeing GB do so well in the Olympics due to lottery funding. More locally, it was the lottery who helped fund the building of our village green and paid for the publication of the book of the village’s history. 
    Rutland, England
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