Scratch and Win Entertainment

Another day goes by and I say to myself. Why not me? I see all these people winning instant jackpots from scratch and wins and ask myself. Why not me? I buy multiple scratch and win tickets only to lose and feel bad about spending my money and ask my self. WHY ME?

It’s that little addiction I like to call the Scratch and Win Lottery ticket frenzy. It’s the guilty little pleasure people have sometimes when they walk into a party store for a drink and find yourself with an extra buck in change after your purchase. Maybe it’s when you go to get a quick snack at a gas station while your pumping gas into your vehicle. Or even if you grab an extra dollar out of your pocket when you go for your lottery ticket. Either way,there’s always that temptation to buy a scratch and win ticket for a quick fix and to possible earn a little more cash in your pocket. After all, the odds to win something for a dollar or two are a lot better then an actual lottery ticket. That’s when you pay for your scratch and win and hope you get something to win. Sometimes you scratch it in your car or maybe you scratch it when you get home. How about being that person that sits there at the cash register chatting with the clerk about how much your going to win all the while scratching away at the ticket with the free penny from the take a penny give a penny plate.

We’ve all seen those people right? The stack of tickets, scratching away when your in line waiting for the person in front while every bodies watching the same person scratch away. What’s he do with the tickets? Most likely he keeps buying more hoping to roll into the big one and leave the store and set up an appointment to collect his big winnings. Everybody has had the urge to do that, don’t lie. I’m not saying you would, I’m just saying that you’d love to win something on the tickets but you won’t spend a penny.

The other day I purchased about 5 of those Red Wings scratch and wins all together. Two of them gave me my money back and the other 3 lost. Good. I wanted to lose so I could send them in for an extra drawing to win the fantasy trip or TV. So today I’m handed 5 bucks especially for scratch and wins. Couldn’t spend it on anything else, so I go for the 2 for 1 ticket and 2 American Idol scratch and wins. All lost, but of course the American Idol one has the buy 3 non-winning tickets and get into a drawing for the finale or chance to win a 47″ screen TV. That meant of course I had to buy a 3rd American Idol ticket which I promptly did. For the first time in my life, I was that guy everybody see’s scratching a ticket while others are paying for their gas and looking to see if I was winning. Why you ask? Well I just needed 1 more losing ticket and worst case scenario, I get it. Best case scenario, I either earn my money back to buy another, or win a bigger pot and maybe fill up my tank of gas for the week! Well, I lost. I was happy. Now it’s on it’s way to the drawing for me to win a grand prize of a TV hopefully. I honestly don’t care enough to want to go to the finale since I’m not a fan of the show, but maybe I could sell it if I have no choice…..maybe buy some more scratch and wins.

But as always, I got my mega millions ticket for a chance to win 28 million!! Since I was given the money, but had to buy scratch and win tickets…i’m still going to technically put them on my money spent list for scratch and win tickets. Also on a totally unrelated note.. I picked up 3 Nintendo tooth brushes….old school.

March 16th, 2007 Estimated Jackpot $28 Million

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $20
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-20

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $35
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $9
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-26

Bigger Jackpot to the sound of 267 Million Dollars!

It’s a small hit on the inside everytime I wake up to find the numbers drawn didn’t match up to the big jackpot. Which I found the numbers at clickondetroit.com the local Channel 4 news station here in Detroit. I tried Fox 2 news at myfoxdetroit.com but didn’t care to search much for it due to hard to figure out, but I’m all about watching Fox 2 News first! Fox 2 Problem Solvers is a riot….anywho. That’s the last time i’ll ever spend multiple money on mega millions tickets. 5 tickets and out of the entire lot of 30 numbers on the ticket, all I got was a lousy white ball!! Insanity I tell ya!! Well that’s a lesson learned hard. Don’t get to caught up in the hype. It only takes one ticket to win it all. I’m tempted to spend more, but that’s just not in the budget right now for me unless there’s a kind soul out there to toss some money my way! OK, probably not, I tried. I’m so poe, I can’t afford the O or the R in the actually word poor. I just got the E on sale and hope everybody can pronounce it out.

HOWEVER, the best thing that came out of not winning again is of course NOBODY ELSE WON! That’s right! Nobody else won the 216 Million Dollar Jackpot last night! Not me, not nobody! That leads to the next lottery drawing on Friday, March 2nd, 2007 to determine who wins the next estimated jackpot of 267 Million Dollars! Will it be me? I sure hope so. I already have the plans drawn out like this:

Step 1: Staging House - Me being broke and not in my own house, I need one to make the staging plans. AKA, somewhere to stay to plan all my spending. Somewhere small in a quiet neighborhood where nobody will

Step 2: Spending Plans - Once at the main headquarters I will develop my spending plans. It may take weeks of planning to build my perfect house somewhere but I will do it one day and I’ll spend lots of time researching out different companies, interior design, yadda yadda. Not to mention all the stuff I’ll buy and play around with such as arcades, video games and DVDs for my viewing pleasure. Investing is also into the mix to guarantee I have money locked away somewhere that nobody can get too at all. Swiss bank account? Sounds like a nice little fund to keep stashed away.

Step 3: Car - There’s always has to be a car in the mix. I’ve been thinking about the Cadillac DTS but I’m also looking towards the Impala SS. Maybe a Suburban or Escalade for the SUV mix? I’m all about supporting the American car companies and I won’t be going balls out buying any foreign cars. It’s all about American Made

The simple 3 step plan that will lead to lots of rewards for a happy life of doing absolutely nothin. The basics of house, car and spending plans is all that a lottery winner really needs.

As a closing, I would like to wish everybody good luck in this Friday’s lottery. If anybody has any insight or thoughts about the lottery they play all the time, then I welcome the comments and thoughts from everybody. I would also like to let everybody know that thanks to the 216 million dollar jackpot on Tuesday I’ve been getting  a lot of visitors and have gotten number 65 on the growing list for WordPress.com. I know it’s just people searching around to find some info on the lottery, but I hope you all continue to check this blog out for my thoughts on the lottery. I would also like to say that in the spirit of the book, I plan on keeping it to the spending $1 and only taking $1. I decided that any extra would just throw the average point of buying only 1 everytime. Since Nothing won, Keeping it to only 1 and not making any changes.

March 2nd, 2007 Estimated Jackpot $267 Million

Friday, February 27th, 2007 Winning Numbers
18   31   44   45   48   18
My losing Numbers
08  10  18  35  41    22

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $15
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-15

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $18
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-13

216 Million Dollars Tonight for Michigan Mega Millions

It’s here folks!! The jackpot above $200 million dollars is here! It’s been quite a time in the making since there hasn’t been one this big in nearly a year. That just lead me to think that I should start adding what the jackpots are each week in the blog to let you guys know whats going on. I’ll also try to do my best to keep up to date on the lottery numbers so you can check out if you won the lottery by using the numbers on my blog! But back to the big jackpot!! I did what I wouldn’t normally do, and that’s to buy multiple tickets. Ya, that’s right, I spent a 5 spot on the Mega Millions today to chase that dream of retiring at the age of 24. Good thing it was only 5 since I happened to accidently take an extra 20 out at the ATM. After asking my g/f how much I should spend on the mega millions, I decided not to spend an entire 20. She said don’t waste money on that when the odds are that bad. I decided I would only get 1, but wound up getting 5 instead.

THERE.

Right there, the early signs of addiction are setting in. Multiple purchases of tickets in hopes of getting better odds which are still just as horrible. What have I become? I’m starting to wonder. I promise you people that will be the last multi-ticket purchase that I will pay for in the Mega Millions…unless it’s a group thing, or the jackpot is over 300 mill. There I said it. The only thing worse then the 5 tickets is I also bought a cashword $2 scratch off ..and lost. Not to mention I was coaxed into buying the same thing 2 days ago as well, which I also lost. Losing 4 bucks in scratch and wins. I’m starting to thing that game isn’t as lucky as the very first time I played it and won 5 bucks. No more of that damn game!! No more scratch and wins for a while!!

I’m still very hopeful on the 216 million dollars tonight. It’s gotten so big even the local news stations are carrying it out and talking about the big winfall that someone may come into tonight. Its not often the news has a story like that about the lottery but when it does you know it’s HUGE! Purchasing 5 chances to win also gives me better odds. Maybe not with the big one, but with the little guys known as the Mega Numbers. There are 46 possible numbers to choose from for the Mega Number. The site claims 1 in 75 chances, pffft, 46 numbers, 46 chances I says! Anywho, with my 5 tickets, I’m guaranteed a 1:9.2 chance of winning $2. Sweet when you think about it really. But that’s still almost a 1 in 10 chance you lose 3 bucks instead of 5. But the big chance of all is winning 216 Million dollars! Still with me here? Good cause I’m hoping to be the man that wins it all!!! OK, I might not, but the fun and dreams all lie somewhere in between.

Without further mention, here’s the stats of the day!

February 27t, 2007 Estimated Jackpot $216 Million

Total Spent to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $19
Total Won to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $0
Total Profit to date on Michigan Mega Millions: $-19

Total Spent on Scratch and Wins: $18
Total Won on Scratch and Wins: $5
Total Profit on Scratch and Wins: $-13