Giving up the lottery - how do you do it?

going2die_rich

Just put a £1 away however often you'd put the lottery on and then at the end of the year buy yourself something nice. I wouldn't check the results and after a while it'll be something you don't bother even thinking about.

Although unless you spend vast amounts on the lottery, I don't see why you wouldn't gamble £1 a week. I do the lottery each week but do it online so I don't even remember what numbers I've put on and I just renew the subcription each month.

If I win I'll get an email notifying me to go and check my account else I wont even remember about the lottery. Better than checking the numbers yourself.

furndire

Check up on how much you win for 5 numbers - a friend got roughly £600. You know how difficult it is to get 3 - I gave up the lottery years ago. OH stopped in March as we had to cut back drastically. Ignore any of the programmes to do with the lottery - not so difficult.

rog2

I still play the occasional lucky dip - used to do family 'syndicate' of 7 lines (£7), then Weds draw came, doubling up to £14.00! Bit by bit family members either forgot to, or stopped paying their £2.00 and I was paying up to £14.00 a week! We won £600.00 one week (no other win more than £40) and, you've guessed, everyone wanted their share!
That cured me.

Starry-eyed_surprise

I read somewhere that you have a greater chance of being injured by a domestic fridge than of winning the lottery (I think it was 1400 to 1 for the fridge) so I don't bother. Touch wood - to date I have also not been injured by my fridge :rotfl: :rotfl:

(But I wish I'd put a pound in a jar for every week of the lottery):D

all_hours

I wish I'd stuck to a lucky dip now and then :mad:

Lois_Lane

going2die_rich wrote:

Just put a £1 away however often you'd put the lottery on and then at the end of the year buy yourself something nice. I wouldn't check the results and after a while it'll be something you don't bother even thinking about.

Although unless you spend vast amounts on the lottery, I don't see why you wouldn't gamble £1 a week. I do the lottery each week but do it online so I don't even remember what numbers I've put on and I just renew the subcription each month.

If I win I'll get an email notifying me to go and check my account else I wont even remember about the lottery. Better than checking the numbers yourself.

If only it was that easy! OH is compelled to watch the lottery draws and he doesn't forget what our numbers are, more's the pity.

LL

Kantankrus_Mare

elisebutt65 wrote:

How do you do the Irish lottery??? Do you have to go in a bookies to do it???

I wouldn't know what to do in a bookies - never been in one in my life - they always look fairly scary places to me - LOL

yes you have to go into a bookies but I used to think they were scary places too.

They arent and I just think that people are crazy going on the lotto when the odds are so much better on the irish.

We are also in a family syndicate with the irish and every time we win we put it away and when we have enough we go for a family meal some where nice.

We have had probably a meal every four months!! Not bad going eh?

tesuhoha

going2die_rich wrote:

Just put a £1 away however often you'd put the lottery on and then at the end of the year buy yourself something nice. I wouldn't check the results and after a while it'll be something you don't bother even thinking about.

Although unless you spend vast amounts on the lottery, I don't see why you wouldn't gamble £1 a week. I do the lottery each week but do it online so I don't even remember what numbers I've put on and I just renew the subcription each month.

If I win I'll get an email notifying me to go and check my account else I wont even remember about the lottery. Better than checking the numbers yourself.

If you saved yourself that £1 per week you would be £54 richer which is equal to more than 5 lottery wins of £10 but I bet you would be really chuffed if you won £10 on the lottery on Saturday.

tomstickland

The lottery is a waste of time. You might as well put a £5 note down a drain each week, the chances of you winning some money are about as good from doing that as from doing the lottery. It's designed to prey on the weakness that "someone wins". Yes, but someone else finds out that they have cancer, or are made redundant, or have a road accident.

Mrs_J_3

all_hours wrote:

Sorry I didn't answer your question properly. I was trying to work out odds but couldn't so I looked on google.:o

The odds of picking 6 is nearly 1 in 14 million.

The odds of picking 3 winning numbers is 1 in 57. After you've played 57 times there is strong possibility (not certainty) that you will have won £10 (and if you do win it could be first time you play or the 57th time). On average it costs £57 to win £10.

I'm not so sure this is the case. Does 1 in 57 chance not mean everytime you play you have a 1 in 57 chance, not that it takes about 57 goes to win? Think about it, pregnant ladies have a 1 in 2 chance of a boy or girl, but if that pregnant lady has a baby boy, her next child is not automatically a girl, it's straight back to a 1 in 2 chance. So everytime you play the lottery your chances remain at 1 in 14 million for the jackpot, and having two tickets does not reduce the odds either!

I do take your point though, that except for a very lucky few (and yes I am jealous ), the rest of us are quite frankly giving our money away.