Is it worth playing the lottery?

I'm constantly whiling away the hours thinking what if....but does it really get you anywhere? but a dreams a dream and we all need them. Despite always wondering what it would be like to win millions on the lottery i rarely bother! When i do it's if i'm having one of those days where everything is going right for me and i tend to win £10, although slightly less ooo's than i was hoping for it's good all the same. Money doesn't buy you happiness however, it can help but it cant buy it. They say in so many studies of lottery winners (studied psychology) that many lottery made millionaires end up with one of the following....suicide, drug problems, bankrupt, prison, and ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who tells you they play the Lotto partly because of the good causes is probably lying. People play to win and the good cause's angle helps to lift the guilt of making a stupid bet. It's far easier to win on the horses, but the horse's taboo, the genius of the lottery. If you can get normal working people that don't normally bet on sports to make a bet on this by saying its legit gambling because it has no stigma then your going to make some serious money, as Camelot and the treasury do. The current lottery angle is the 2012 Olympics, every scratch card you buy seeing a percentage going to the huge bill. It was no surprise the Olympic bill has exploded ...  Read the complete review

Let's face it we all waste money- if you just look at all your expenditure and split it between essential and non essential- it is quite enlightening. The figures published recently on the volume of food waste per person was staggering. So spending £1 on the lottery is, by comparison a mere pittance. Now let's assume you will lose most of the time- remember all the good causes you have supported- now that feels better doesn't it? But my feeling about whether it is worth playing the lottery is, as the saying goes-you have to be in it to win it. A lottery ticket is a chance, albeit it a very very slim chance that you could change your ...  Read the complete review

At the end of the day no-one who doesn't play the Lottery is going to put that pound away every week and after 10 years have a poxy £500 to spend. For a start your £500 pound in 10 years is going to be worth substantially less than it's face value. So what to do with the mystery pound everyone says we should save and not waste your money, well do what the hell you like with it it is YOUR pound, me however stupid you think I might be will put that little gold coloured coin on the desk of my local garage and buy me a Lottery ticket. I don't particularly care that the odds are 14M to 1, I don't care if I lose my pound, it's mine to lose, and if the ...  Read the complete review

If I was going to gamble for entertainment I certainly wouldn't queue up for a ticket then go home and watch the results on TV, you can do that anyway, it's not fun. There are plenty of online casinos with more engaging, better odds games such as poker on which you can easily turn a guaranteed profit while enjoying yourself by collecting cash back from sites like we promise to. Surely for gambling to be fun there has to be an ambience and a series of wins and looses to keep the adrenaline up? Lottery claims to be tax free, this isn't true as you pay 50% up front leading to an instant waste of half of your money as this much isn't contributed to the prize ...  Read the complete review