Nothing and No Good….and K-Mart

I did check my lottery ticket for last Friday today….as well as yesterdays ticket for Tuesdays drawing. Each one had only 1 white ball number picked. To bad that doesn’t bring anything to the table except another dollar in the red. Thats all good though, my theory will soon be proven wrong… I hope. That just means that I have to keep on playing to start making some change and not having much in the black for the first month.

I was on my way to get stuff for the baby, aka, more receiving blankets and stop by my grandparents house for some home made sheets for the cradle. Which is great for me, less stuff to wash and more time being less stressed out. Its a win win. Closest place to my grandparents house was a Super K-Mart. I’m glad this place doesn’t look like most K-Marts with the yellow tinted paint that looks like they’ve been smoking since the 80’s inside the store and never bothered to clean the walls or flooring. They did happen to have the same music though so it’s not that bad. But what the hell does that have to do with the lottery? Well I never knew it before, but K-Mart actually has the option to buy lottery tickets! Who knew? Well probably a lot of people that go there just not myself. I bought the winning lottery ticket, I think, for Fridays jackpot of $65 million dollars!!

When I come to think of it, there’s a lot of stuff I’d love to do with the winnings. I got to be honest, call me weird, strange or down right generous. But it came to me in a dream that I was to give half of my winnings after taxes to the St. Jude’s Children Hospital. It sticks in my head, so I refuse to go back on it. Bummer if I only won $10 million, but the bigger the jackpot the better since I have more to myself. After looking over what I wanted, what I needed and what I would like to have, I looked at all the people I could possibly help. Friends and family in need for just a little help. Not flat out giving them a steady life, but I’m not sure I could easily have all this cool stuff while the people that I know are in desperate need to get their life right. I still plan on making sure I have millions of dollars don’t get me wrong, after all I can’t just give money to people I don’t know, family I’ve never seen or friends that want to relive the glory days and hang out….you know the kind, those people in high school or college that were in your class for a semester that you didn’t talk to but somehow got forced into a group project and they had to put up with you. Those people, all of a sudden would LOVE to be your buddy. Fuck that. That’s all I got to say on that subject, more later.

I sit here, nothing won yet, but the year is still early! I got 11 more months to go to play a game of winning catch up! I think I can do it, I know I can! If all else fails, at least I got this cool book I’m going to make.

Shamless Plugs:
- Super K-Mart (Taylor, Michigan - Van Born East of Telegraph)- Who knew this place sold lottery tickets?
- St. Judes Children’s Hospital in Detroit - God bless those little guys, I hope to help them one day.

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $8
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-8

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $4
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $1

Baby and reasons for more money

It’s been a time since I last posted passing on by the Friday Mega Millions. I’d like to start out by saying I had a beautiful baby boy Saturday January 27th at 11:50am name Chase weighing in at 7lbs 15oz. What more motivation for this project then the birth of a new life and having to financially take care of it.

I did not win the Mega Millions last Friday, alas. Although I never did quite check the ticket, I did see that the prize went up a couple million. Although its up about 11 million maybe? There’s always that small chance of hope that I won a nice small fortune….hell I’d be happy if I won 2 bucks. That would make up for that scratch and win I bought along with Friday’s lottery ticket. I thought i’td have a good chance at winning, but I won nothing on it. Not to mention it was a $2 ticket and the odds were 1 in 4.65. Hmmm I wonder. If I were to get 5 tickets, would I make enough to earn back the money? It sounds like a test I must try out soon along with my spending $20 on $1 tickets theory. The ticket was called Winner Snow and I just had to match 1 of 16 numbers with 1 of 3 numbers that I got or get a small cash wad symbol to win them all. It was fun though, i’m not that much in regret about it. I’ll have to wait until I get some stuff settled to test my theories on scratch and win tickets. So chalk that down for another losing ticket.

I did manage to snag me a ticket for todays lottery though. Will this be the final time that my wishes can turn into reality? I hope so. My ways of buying stuff sure changed with the baby though, I now have plans to make a huge baby friendly house…..except the man cave. Which I will into on a later date. I’m so dead tired though, Between Friday and Monday night I got a total of 6 hours of sleep. I’ll be sure to play some catch up and explain the man cave in detail later.

Shamless Plugs:
- Sleep - Get some

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $7
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-7

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $4
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $1

Current Assets

So now that I’ve got everything squared away with the first post about the idea and direction I want to go through, now on to the lottery stuff.

I’m still kinda bummed from the last drawing in which I won nothing. It would of been great to get a piece of that jackpot. So far I haven’t won a single thing in the MMM and I’ve spent a total of $5 bucks this year, I missed a day or 2, but that shouldn’t ruin anything in the project. Things had to be sacrificed. It’s not Friday yet, but sometimes I like to get my tickets a day or so early. Is there a trend to this? The last person to win 300+ million here in Michigan was said to buy her ticket at the last possible minute in a gas station. Is that the right way for me? Seeing as how the final time to buy a ticket is 10:44 pm on a Tuesday or Friday means I’ll have to be late. Forget having to go out in this sub-zero January weather. Maybe I’ll go out in a summer night, but not in the cold. I did stop off to score a KFC Ultimate Cheese Snacker which is a great choice for only a buck and then I decided to just get my ticket today. My baby boy is due any day now and my crazy addiction wants to get the ticket just in case I’m in the labor room waiting for my little son Chase to be born.

Isn’t that something? I’m addicted enough to be worried about missing out a chance of a lottery winning when my g/f is about to have my child. But don’t slam me yet, I’ll worry but I’m not addicted enough to leave her side during labor to pick up a ticket. That’s just pathetic and sad if I did so I’m just happy I have my ticket now. Got it at the 7 Eleven gas station near the airport on the corner of Northline and Eureka. Great place for slurpees and the employees there are always friendly compared to a few other places that give customers the stink eye. I hate those places, but at least they sell the tickets to feed my addiction. You think with the profits that the store owners get, they’d try to push the lottery just a little more. Maybe a sign advertising it out at the gas pumps or something like they do for the foods inside. They aren’t personally getting money , but the odds of them getting it raise with each ticket!

Sitting here with me is my hopeful winning lottery ticket and a scratch and win ticket that’s worth 5 bucks that i’ve yet to cash in after a month. I have until January 2008 so I’ll keep on to it until I need it….or just remember to cash it in. It’s the Cashword Scratch and win that has a film on top of a grid of letters via crossword. At the bottom is a collection of 18 letters that you scratch off to hopefully reveal a full word. The more words you get, the bigger payout. This gives me a little motivation to try scratch and wins more. I have a plan to spend $20 bucks one day on $1 scratch and win tickets and see how much the payout is total. I’ll make sure to post that up here some day when I get around to actually scrapping up 20 bucks to blow on scratch and wins. That’ll be all for today until my next Lottery experience.

Shamless Plugs:
- 7 Eleven gas station (corner of Northline and Middlebelt) Romulus, MI
- KFC Ulimate Cheese Snacker for 99 cents
- CashWord Scratch and Win Ticket

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $6
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-6

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $2
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $3

The Beginning

Is it the beginning? Well not technically in this post, as the project I’m working on started January 2nd, 2007. Whats the project you ask? Well let me tell you folks. Last year, 2006, I calculated that there was a $17 dollar profit from playing the Michigan Mega Millions lottery jackpot every single chance I got, minus a couple times that I someway or another missed. AKA, vacation, work or just plain out forgetfulness. This year, I’m creating a blog that may be published into a book that I’ll create to give the insights on what goes on in the mind of a lotto addict such as myself that thinks he’s going to win it big one day and never have to work again.

A little bit about myself though. My names Cliff and I’m addicted to the Michigan Mega Millions lottery as well as scratch and win tickets. Not so much the scratch and wins as it is the mega millions. I’m currently unemployed with a baby due any day now that really doesn’t have any debt other then my car payment. I graduated in 2000 and went to college to receive my Associates Degree in Graphic Design. Good choice, fun choice but right now, bad choice. Why? Well I’ve been in the business for 3 1/2 years making good money before I got unemployed 3 months ago and have yet to find anything in the field. After unemployment runs out I’ll be working any possible job I can get my hands to support my family.

Now that I got the details of my personal life out of the way, you can see that I have huge amounts of free time to create new art for my portfolio as well as searching new ways to make money. After this year is over i’ll make a book about this experience, put my page layout knowledge to use. Share to the world what goes on in my mind.

Here’s a little insight about what I’ll be sharing in this blog with everybody:
- Thoughts on the lottery
- Lottery winnings
- Lottery Scratch and Wins
- Lottery attempts
- What I did when I got my lottery ticket.
- Where I bought tickets at
- What I want to buy with lottery winnings
- How depressed I get when I don’t win

Basically anything to do with the lottery in my life will be open for discussion as well as talk.

So here it goes the first post explaining everything. Have fun reading and expect a book or if I can’t get a deal, an ebook that i’ll distribute for a small price so you don’t have to go through all these blogs, or if your cheap like me, just read the blogs.