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If You Won $6.53 in the Lottery, What Would You Do With It?

Poll - Total Votes: 12
Blow it on Women and Booze
Blow it on Men and Booze
Invest in the Stock Market
Donate to Charity
Buy a homeless person an Egg McMuffin
Buy yourself an Egg McMuffin
Hide it under you bed
Pay your poor suffering mother back for all the pain you caused her
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Iwillwait · M
6 whole bucks and . 53 cents? What could I do other than say I am losing.
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@Iwillwait teach a man to win six and half bucks and he'll eat for a day, or buy string and fish hooks and eat for the rest of his life.
@GerOttman Ha! Good luck teaching anyone to fish these days, they'd be too scared of the bait, or hook, or fish.😆
Iwillwait · M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Yay! Chicklets for everyone!
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I forgot to add, Go to the strip club... My bad!
SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Pennies from Heaven
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't think $6.53 would buy you much.....

I'd had more difficulties if I won that (though in ££) with a Million after it!

I thought I had once, on the National Lottery; maybe a million not $6, 530, 000; as I carefully tested the pink slip against the numbers in a newspaper.

Three (the least) matched - not bad, a tenner. Well, all right £9 because the stake was £1.

Four - ooh, maybe £40-50. I did win that, once.

Five... Cor! Some tens or even a few hundreds, of thousand pounds.

Six.... I felt a bit faint, steadied myself, reviewed the matches, decided I'd take the ticket to the newsagents and ask them to verify it very discreetly.

Then I realised I was examining not my ticket, but a results slip for the previous week. Nowt for it but to pack my sandwiches and go to work as usual.

....

Some years ago now, the Canadian teachers' union that owns Britain's National Lottery (why the Hell did they not find or set up a British administrator so at least keeping the trading-profits in the country?) doubled the stake from £1 to £2. It also multiplied by 50 the already enormous odds against winning anything by upping it from 6-from-49 numbers, to 6-from-50. I have bought barely any tickets since.

(I forget the formula, but bets like these work on factorials, so the odds climb very steeply indeed.)
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
Wow thats almost 7 bucks...
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@GuyWithOpinions big responsibility, I know!
GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M
@GerOttman because its such a little amount id probably just get cofees in the morning. If it was like $100 id get everyone at work some coffee and donuts or something. If it were 1M id skip town and start a new life.
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@GuyWithOpinions Guess we're talking Starbucks there!!
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@sunsporter1649 That would be an excellent choice! Just in time for Halloween too!
zonavar68 · 51-55, M
Celebrate and dance like nobody's watching
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@zonavar68 Sometimes the smallest victories are the sweetest!
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
I dont know, buy a gallon of gas🤷‍♂️
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@Virgo79 And enough left for a Slim-Jim!!!
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@GerOttman maybe🙂
TexChik · F
Pay $3.00 in taxes and toss the rest in my truck console.
Six dollars and sixty three cents?
That’s a weak ass lottery
Buy 6 more tickets, I guess.🤷‍♂️
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@UnderLockDown Reinvest, good call. The big one in in there somewhere! Just keep trying.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I would say buy postage stamps.
Not sure just how many it would pay for but I paid nearly £100 for a hundred second class ones this week in England.

Drives me crazy. Fewer people than ever use snail mail these days yet it costs you more than it ever has !
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@Picklebobble2 You could get those forever stamps and retire in 30 years, sound investment!
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
Reinvest it in the lottery.
zonavar68 · 51-55, M
Go pop some tags?
ShaneMckay · 41-45, M
zonavar68 · 51-55, M
7.23 won last night. Pays for one beer at pub. Or maybe 1 nail of my house.
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@zonavar68 free beer always tastes better
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@zonavar68 [media=https://youtu.be/Lg7DcCI39GY]
Musicman · 61-69, M
$6.53 what??? Dollars, Million, Billion?
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@Musicman There really isn't a better way to describe Six Dollars and Fifty Three Cents... The question stands as written. Maybe think of six whole notes, two quarter notes and a little extra trill at the end??
SW-User
Probably invest it wisely and I would end up being a bulti billionaire in no time at all
GerOttman · 61-69, M
@SW-User I like the way you think! Long term investing is the key to wealth building!

 
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