I’ll admit it. After I did the lottery challenge last month, wherein I bought $100 worth of scratch-off tickets in 10 days to see if it was profitable (it wasn’t), I became somewhat of an addict for a while. Doing anything for 10 days straight will do that to you.
But last week, I promised myself I would slow down dramatically, and with the help of a rather addictive computer game I played in college to waste my time, I had been doing pretty good. I’d say I have spent maybe four or five dollars on scratch-offs in the past 10 days. Not great, but not bad either.
Well today I got my tax refund back, and went to fill up my gas tank. It held $34, a travesty in itself, so I had a dollar left from my 20, 10 and five. I decided to buy a Straight 8 ticket with it, just because.
I wound up winning $4 on that one ticket, so later in the day I decided to reinvest those winnings, this time on 4 Sweetheart tickets. On the second of the group, I uncovered three $50 amounts, which made me a big winner for the day. I cashed out $35 of it, and bought one of those big $100 million Cash Spectacular tickets ($10) that are all the rage, along with five more Sweethearts because someone once told me that if you ever get a big winner and have the money, buy the next five tickets of the same kind, because they travel in packs.
That person was right, because one of the Sweethearts netted me $100!!! I also won $2 and two free tickets from that five pack, and got $20 off the big ticket!!!
But it doesn’t stop there. I cashed out all but $14 and bought three $2 tickets, because my challenge taught me that they were the most profitable in the long run, along with eight $1 tickets. I won $27 on one of the $2 tickets, three $2 amounts and a two free tickets.
After getting the free tickets, my work was done for the night. I went home happy and $145 in the black (I bought $35 in groceries as well), all from a $1 ticket!
All this just goes to show that there is no rhyme, reason or beating to the lottery, though. It is all a game a chance, and Wednesday was my lucky day I guess.
Good times. But I am still taking some time off.
