Does anyone do Sweepstakes or Lottery?

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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I reluctantly do the Publisher's Clearinghouse every year and buy some of their cheap almost useless junk in order to get a chance to win $7000.00 a week for life. I wonder if that is for real though. Does anyone check up on them? Can they afford to give a lot of people all that? Also, who knows how long they will stay in business. They have all kinds of gambling games too and I almost got hooked into that but stopped after spending $4.00.

Then there is the lottery. I practically never play it because I don't have much to spend. Every once in a blue moon though I will play a number that I think has something to do with me. The other day I played my birthday number which is 105 and 104 came out which is my apt. number. Geez. Then I watched the pick three come out last night. I didn't play but if I was going to I was going to play 801 which is part of my phone number and 109 came out. Good thing I didn't play. Also, I was looking at the pick four to see if anything that is related to me came out and 5971 came out and 1957 is my birth year. I think that is how they suck people in. When you see things that are so close you start to think you are going to win and start playing. I'm not going to do it, though. I can't afford it! I'm going to try not to watch what comes out either.
 

No "Sweepstakes" but if the pots are big enough ($10 million +) I'll buy a California Super Lotto or MEGA quick pick.
I don't play birthdays etc.

Hey, If ya don't play, you'll never win !
 
I started responding to these PCH e-mails, years ago, and still do, but have Never bought any of their mostly overpriced and useless stuff. The odds of winning one of their prized are in the billions, but the odds are infinite if one doesn't enter. Much the same goes for the lotteries....Powerball, etc. I buy a state lottery ticket 3 or 4 times a month...most of that money goes to the State education system....so I just look at it as a voluntary tax. I do buy a Powerball ticket when the payout reaches over 150 million or so....just as a lark. Most of the time, I get my "gambling" urges satisfied on our monthly trip to the casinos.
 
I don't do the PCH thing, and here in Hawaii there is no state lottery and the multi-state lotteries are not allowed to sell here. (The Mormon influence is still a real thing here.) I think the state Constitution forbids it. "Social" gambling (football pools, etc) is permitted.
 
I play regularly. I win frequently but only small amounts. I play the Lucky for Life game where you win $1,000 a day for life if you get all six numbers. :eek:
 
I've entered sweepstakes for ~30 years, and have won some great thing, including trips. Not the PCH one, though. Hard to believe, but we don't have a lottery in Nevada. (The casinos make sure of that.)
 
I used to fill in the Publishers Clearing House but it became just too complicated for my poor old brain.

When I was working I was always in one sports pool or another.

These days I buy a lottery ticket when the pot gets into the hundreds of millions and dream for a few days about what I would do with all that money if I won. The dreams are a form of entertainment for me, just like buying a ticket to a movie, LOL!!!
 
I have never forgotten the radio newsman who was reporting on the $27,000,000 lottery prize. He said that to be the winner, you would have to have the one winning ticket out of a stack of tickets a mile and a half high. Those tickets are printed on thin paper. I am not a player.
 
I didn't know so many would play the lottery and sweepstakes but then why not? I can't be the only one who wants a chance to hit it big...:banana:
 
No matter what size the pot is we buy one Mega and one Powerball ticket twice a week......I'm not pecking this on a solid gold keyboard while sailing on my yacht so that pretty much tells you that we haven't hit the big one.

YET.
 
I haven't done the PCH sweepstates in years. Its too complicated and once you respond they keep sending you more junk mail. I do play lotto but don't spend more than I can afford.
 
Publisher's Clearing House drove me mad this morning! I managed to try and get another shot at the 7000 a week for life but not before they tried to sell me about 100 different junk items and magazines. Good God!:playful:
 

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