Lottery - No Hope

paybacktime2008

I read a good idea, on here somewhere i think. Pay your monies into a savings account every week. Then when your numbers come up, you can pay yourself your own 'jackpot.'

Kavanne

My colleagues call it the 'stupid tax'... I pay it.

sel_chick

I bought 2 lucky dips yesterday - and I won £10...so that's £8 profit this week....but even though I don't play every week (and I only do sats, not weds - and never thunderball/euro etc)...I'll never made back everything I've spent on it.
Time to stop - and like someone said - stick it in an ISA or something. I could save quite a bit of money next year...

seven-day-weekend

Just to say you have to buy £100 worth of Premium Bonds to start with and then after that I think it's in multiples of £25.

But once you've bought them they are there every month for you 'flutter'.

My husband and I have had about ten small (£50-£100) wins on a £3k holding in about five years.

jenjade

If you are a big comper why don't you use that £5 to buy stamps and enter loads of postal comps?? Just an idea

Slap given but we all dream!

Burlesque_Babe

I did the lottery for the first 18 months - 1 line, same numbers and never won a penny. I stopped but it took me AGES to wean myself off checking the numbers still - in a weird way of torturing myself that they might have won!

I would put it in an ISA. I had quite a large amount of premium bonds and in the 12 months I had them, never won a penny - I lost out on over £100 in interest so kicked myself really.

pania

****CONTROVERSIAL POST*****WARNING********


I used to play the lottery all the time, of course i never won anything other than the odd ten pound.

In 1996 the national lotteries commission refused a grant to the kent air ambulance of 2 million. a cause that for reasons I won't explain is exceptionally dear to my heart, but agreed a 10 million grant to the lesbian and gay arts council.

From that day forward i have never ever even been tempted to put my money into their hands. I have nothing against the charity that was granted 10m, i know they put it to good use but it doesn't save hundreds of lives a year. It doesn't provide medical support and treatment for people that would otherwise die travelling by road. the kent air ambulance is so thoroughly deserving of the 2million yet they saw it fit to refuse.

Sorry said it would be controversial...

Different_Corner

Pania
I've heard similar stories. I don't think enough of the 'good' is publicised (sp?) but then what is good in some peoples eyes etc...

As they say charity begins at home so I will give myself a fiver a week

oscar52

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Just to say you have to buy £100 worth of Premium Bonds to start with and then after that I think it's in multiples of £25.

But once you've bought them they are there every month for you 'flutter'.

My husband and I have had about ten small (£50-£100) wins on a £3k holding in about five years.

You have to buy £100 with each purchase, unless i think its a Standin order - then you can buy £50.

Seaxwyn

That 's a great plan about the ISA - well done!

I've never bought a lottery ticket because just before it was launched I heard an interview with one of the politicians involved who described it as "a tax on stupidity".

More recently I got chatting to a man from Camelot was installing a new lottery machine in my local corner shop. He said that neither he nor his colleagues ever buy tickets because they understand the odds so well.