<p>For those of you in the Mega Millions states: how many tickets did you buy? The jackpot is up to $130 million! I bought a hundred bucks worth. Maybe this thread should be what you would do with $130 million?</p>
<p>mega millio? what r u talking about? n u bought tickets? 100 dollars worth? what a waste.</p>
<p>this is the first time i have bought lottery tickets in probably 3 years, I know its a collasol waste of money but what the hell, it was leftover christmas money anyways so its not like i will feel the loss directly</p>
<p>you do realize kent state/joev your chances of winning are like as minimal as mathematically possible.</p>
<p>100 dollars is not "leftover Christmas money"...</p>
<p>i do realize this, but i have the helicopter salesman bookmarked and will be the first thing i buy</p>
<p>calling you kent is funny, I'll still call you joev. Back to the matter at hand...you do realize oftentimes NO ONE wins the lottery, especially the mega million ones?</p>
<p>Hence the jackpot being $130 million. I remember like 3 years ago when the power ball was $300 million something like that, people were in line for like 2 hours buying tickets! That was crazy. </p>
<p>I have two new goals now, beating the lottery system (not gonna happen) and posting only in the cafe, keeping my counter at zero at all times.</p>
<p>well 3 years ago I was 13 and didn't care about the lottery...actually I don't care now either :p</p>
<p>kent state, let us know what you got after the numbers were annouced <em>_</em></p>
<p>good luck! LoL</p>
<p>I checked the website and odds to win the jackpot are 1 in 135,145,920. I bought 100 tickets so my odds to win the jackpot are 1 in 1.35 million. I got a better chance of inventing time travel. I will let you know after the drawing tomorrow at 11p EST.</p>
<p>The store that I work at once bought $200 dollars worth of tickets and won absolutely nothing :)</p>
<p>I have been reading up about what to do if you win. I have to change my phone number, quit my job, move. Winning this thing sounds like too much of a hassle. How will I even know who my real friends are? Maybe there is a reason all rich people tend to live in the same neighborhood.</p>
<p>haha- or maybe because their homes are in neighborhoods normies can't afford?</p>
<p>exactly !</p>
<p>sup buddy! How ya doing! You know, long time no talk? you see, im a lil short on cash right now.. ya know... and could ya spot me for, say, a couple thousand? just 500,000 or so. thanks.</p>
<p>Winning the lottery is not that great; what does it teach your children and descendants? It just tells them that you don't have to work hard, or that money comes easily. Just dreaming and wishing for money doesn't get a person anywhere. It's hard work and determination to EARN one's life.</p>
<p>That's what Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson and the founding fathers believed in. They didn't believe in this form of gambling known as the lottery. It sickens me to see people still running after money when they're adults. Instead of running after the lottery and dreaming about money, why not work hard, study hard, and earn your living? That's what my parents did - coming from sleeping on the streets to one of the richest cities in our nation. They are both a self-made man and woman.</p>
<p>People don't understand the idea of the self-made man anymore, do they?</p>
<p>I work hard everyday in college and will work hard in my engineering job too. But an engineering job won't pay me the kind of money that I can win from getting lucky with a big jackpot from a lottery or casino. I can live comfortably on an engineering salary but don't we all wish we could get rich quick? I do think it is pathetic for people to rely on lotteries to make their money but a healthy balance of hard work/steady job and playing the lottery is not a bad thing.</p>
<p>self-made man is in many ways a myth, sure for some it worked out, but it was more an ideal than practical</p>