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What do you spend max to lottery per week?
Apr 28, 2025, 2:36 pm - oddser - Lottery Discussion Forum

What is your weekly or monthly lottery budget?
Hi All, Just wondering what everyone is spending each week or month on various lotteries. I am working from home and not buying lunch at the local burger or taco joint. In lieu of buying lunch, I spend about $30-40 each week to buy lottery tickets, this includes buying with winning tickets. I buy scratchers one week and draws games the other week. What is your budget?
Apr 28, 2025, 7:18 pm - Lavender Roses - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is the Annuity payout safe?Reply
this actually happened in illinois a decade ago. https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-comptroller-the-state-will-stop-payments-to-lottery-winners-if-budget-stalemate-drags-on/ but they eventually resumed paying people. in illinois's case, it was a budget problem. in texas's case, you got a lot of cranks in the texas state legislature who want the lottery shut down all because some out of state bulk buying group won a jackpot. in any case the state will still have to pay out prizes they s
May 20, 2026, 2:40 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

The lottery has made me lose myself, how can I save myself?Reply
It's about self control. I sometimes refer to buying a lottery ticket as feeding the monster . You can't overfeed the monster. I did for several years. But I also kept track of my spending. One year I spent over $2600 on lottery tickets. At the end of the year I realized how stupid it was and decided to reel it in. I have a budget that I keep. Just today at work I was leaving and walked by the lottery vending machine. I stopped and stared at the scratch offs for a minute and was about to pl
Oct 24, 2024, 4:44 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

The lottery has made me lose myself, how can I save myself?Reply
When you find that you have lost yourself or frustrated with the lottery. And I live in Canada. So what I do is I take a break from the lottery. Sometime's for up to a week. Some people may need a longer break than that. And when I feel less uncomfortable with myself and the lottery. I take a chance. And buy 1 or 2 ticket's. And that is all. I want to budget my money. Some time's I win. Other day's I have lost on a ticket. Lottery game's are not easy for alot of people. I tend to be too hard on
Oct 21, 2024, 2:46 pm - Elizabeth03 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Play a large number of tickets once a month or a few tickets every drawing?Reply
I used to play one ticket of each, for every drawing. I am scaling back. I haven't set my new budget yet but my previous budget was $29 a week. I may bring that down to $14 a week maybe.
Aug 26, 2024, 5:12 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Rising Gas Prices and the LotteryReply
I always play the lottery with budget caution. This way when times like this come around, I can still play. You gotta be in it to win!
May 8, 2026, 8:44 am - Slick Nick - Lottery Discussion Forum

Winning the Powerball.Reply
Uncle Sam sure takes his fair share (47.9%). Would love to know where this money truly goes. If it were to the States operating budget why do we still have sub-par public schools, crappy roads and bridges and cities not thriving? Things that make you go ....hmmm.
Dec 17, 2025, 1:57 pm - oh2btraveling - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
Personally I don't knock those that play MM. Everyone has their own reasons for playing or not playing MM, whether it's indignation at paying $5, or the ones that will pay $5 because the jackpot is still life changing. Back in the day when my wife and I were pulling down plenty of money to cover bills and had enough left over for entertainment, I would play all the lottery games. These days I'm pretty stuck on a budget, and that means picking which games to play and which games not to play. To e
Oct 29, 2025, 8:12 am - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do you care about hitting box on pick 3?Reply
For many years, my goal has been picking one straight combo. I had considered that a box hit meant I was still wrong with the attempt. These days, instead of spending that $1 on a straight shot, I go 0.50/0.50 because boxes do happen more frequently than straight hits. I agree that it is not exciting, but when I limit my budget to $14 a week (Pick 3 mid day and evening), that $40 (or $80) leads to a few weeks on the house. I have taken many breaks (years at a time in some cases) and alwa
Sep 16, 2025, 9:06 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum