How often do you play the lotto?

[Deleted]

Hubby buys a ticket at least once every couple weeks, but I don't think I've bought myself a ticket ever. It just doesn't appeal or occur to me to buy one!

[Deleted]

Never.


My mom plays whenever it is big. I expect her to share.

[Booze Raccoon]

I have never played either.  

DH's uncle gives us scratch off tickets every Christmas and I always win.  I've won as little as $5 and as much as $60.

[pagas]

If it is over $300 million, I may buy a ticket. But usually I am too lazy.

[adhdfashion]

Never

[btay]

Only when it gets big enough that coworkers decide to do a pool.

[cville]

I have purchased four lottery tickets in my life. Maybe five. All because I was just keeping someone else company while they went to purchase a ticket.

[angelaa73]

Never.

[tigress]

Dec 22, 2014 9:56:39 GMT -5 btay said:

Only when it gets big enough that coworkers decide to do a pool.

This. I usually don't until work starts a pool. And then often I'll go and buy myself my own ticket too.

[walterismydog]

Maybe ten times in my life.

[whitemerlot]

Never

[RoxMonster]

I do scratch-offs occasionally. One of my bosses gives them out for things like holidays or thank yous.

As far as the actual Lotto, we might buy a ticket when the jackpot gets really high.

[papie]

Once every few years? I can't remember the last time.

[pandorica]

I think I've played maybe once? I've done scratch offs a couple times.

[circa1978]

I've never personally bought a lottery ticket. H buys them maybe once every few years.

[NothingWrongwithOhio]

I put in for the office pool whenever they're doing it. Just because with my luck, they'd win and I'd be the only fool left working at the office.

But on my own, never.

[laceylaplante]

Sometimes, if it's a big jackpot.

[dexteroni]

Usually only when I see a headline about how big the jackpot is. Otherwise, I don't really think about it. DH will buy a scratch-off once in a while at the vending machine in the grocery store. He actually has a pretty good win rate on those.

At my last full time job, one person used to take up a collection and go in on a bunch of tickets when there was a big jackpot. I always threw in my dollar because on the one-in-a zillion chance that they would win, damned if I was going to be the only person who wasn't in on it.

[Bernadine]

Dec 22, 2014 9:56:39 GMT -5 btay said:

Only when it gets big enough that coworkers decide to do a pool.

Basically, this.  And I buy h a few scratch-offs for his stocking, because he likes them.

[gummy]

I usually buy a Powerball when it gets really big. Two years ago I stopped at a gas station on the way home from work and bought a ticket. That night a guy who stopped at that same gas station just 30 minutes after me to buy tickets hit the Powerball. I was a little bitter about that one! So close!

[polarbearfans]

We buy a ticket maybe a couple times of year if it's a big jackpot. I get scratchers a few times a year when we travel. Just a $1 or $2 worth. Not big on gambling but it is fun to dream of winning big sometimes

[pooh8402]

the weekly lotto? pretty much never. my nana buys the whole family a bunch of scratch off tickets for Christmas every year. so once presents are unwrapped and stockings are opened, we sit around the kitchen table and start scratching off tickets, competing for who wins the most money.

[killercupcake]

We don't have a lotto here. If we're in CA and the jackpot is high, we'll pick up a ticket.

[lpcats]

Dec 22, 2014 9:56:39 GMT -5 btay said:

Only when it gets big enough that coworkers decide to do a pool.

Yep. I don't want to be the only one left at work if they win it big.

[flex]

No Lotto in Alaska...yet.

[aprilsails]

My office has a weekly pool that I participate in. It's called the suicide prevention fund - since no one would want to be left behind.

Otherwise I only buy them when the jackpot gets huge twice a year.