Sunday Morning Lottery Letdown

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:35 am

every sunday morning i check the lottery numbers to see if i won anything. it's always a bust of course! last wednesday i won a whopping $72. do you play? what would you do if you won a big one? i won $50,000. twice in Mass. years ago, at the time it was HUGE. i feel like i'd be crazy not to play, 2 bucks a week. but every sunday morning i get depressed! :rolleyes:

theia · Post by **theia** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:37 am

Me too, LC. I felt sure last night was the night and, once again, it wasn't. Maybe I got my days muddled, it's probably next week.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:39 am

theia wrote: Me too, LC. I felt sure last night was the night and, once again, it wasn't. Maybe I got my days muddled, it's probably next week.:)hey, send me your numbers and i'll send you mine! :wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:46 am

Money can do many things for us, it can buy us neat toys, it can get us out of debt, it can allow us to travel, but when it really comes down to it, what is it that really makes you happy ? Does it have anything to do with money ?

Not for me.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:53 am

Nomad wrote: Money can do many things for us, it can buy us neat toys, it can get us out of debt, it can allow us to travel, but when it really comes down to it, what is it that really makes you happy ? Does it have anything to do with money ?

Not for me.oh sod off.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:55 am

Money doesn't make me happy, but the lack of it can really put a knot in my knickers.

*is it knickers for men?*

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:56 am

lady cop wrote: oh sod off.

That came from the heart, didn't it. I can tell.:yh_rotfl

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:58 am

lady cop wrote: oh sod off.

Dont you get all Brit on me swamp girl ! :p :-4

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:33 am

Accountable wrote: Money doesn't make me happy, but the lack of it can really put a knot in my knickers.

*is it knickers for men?*

Yeah...that's the bottom line .....

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:38 am

SnoozeControl wrote: They don't have the lottery in Utah.:yh_frustr

There's that ol' MORMON influence rearing its' ugly head again!

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:15 am

I bought the local newspaper one evening, about two months ago. On the front page was a large colour photo of a friend of mine from twenty years ago. I recognised her immediately, though we lost contact with each other long ago. She still looked very much the same as she did in the eighties, which is to say, quite beautiful.

She was posing with her husband of twenty years (anybody see a pattern here ?), and they were holding their lottery cheque worth CDN$10,000,000.

(That's US$8,640,000 or 4,950,000 Pounds Sterling or 7,180,000 Euros).

Lottery winnings in Canada are 100% tax free.

R.B.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:29 am

Richard Bell wrote: I bought the local newspaper one evening, about two months ago. On the front page was a large colour photo of a friend of mine from twenty years ago. I recognised her immediately, though we lost contact with each other long ago. She still looked very much the same as she did in the eighties, which is to say, quite beautiful.

She was posing with her husband of twenty years (anybody see a pattern here ?), and they were holding their lottery cheque worth CDN$10,000,000.

(That's US$8,640,000 or 4,950,000 Pounds Sterling or 7,180,000 Euros).

Lottery winnings in Canada are 100% tax free.

R.B.

Winnings are tax free. Wow, what a concept. Why isnt your govt interested in brutally raping its citizens ? I find that extremely difficult to believe. Here when the IRS puts its latex gloves on you drop your drawers and bend over then say thank you may I have some more please ?

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:47 am

Nomad wrote: Winnings are tax free. Wow, what a concept. Why isnt your govt interested in brutally raping its citizens ? I find that extremely difficult to believe. Here when the IRS puts its latex gloves on you drop your drawers and bend over then say thank you may I have some more please ?

The National Lottery winnings in the UK are tax free too.:p

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:57 am

OpenMind wrote: The National Lottery winnings in the UK are tax free too.:p

Hey wait a minute....I thought thats why we left in the 1st place TAXES ! :-5

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:34 am

We try to play every week!

I would share a chunk with family and friends and my 2 favorite charities and then just buy a comfy house in the country and invest the rest of it so we'd never have to work again!

I definitely wouldn't go crazy with it, I have no desire to own a mansion or a yacht or a plane or whatever else! I'd still be my hippy self just with a bigger bank account!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:32 am

I would retire and stay home with my husband and research and write. Maybe keep the college class to teach, but toots to public school. Like Nomad said, money doesn't make you happy. But the time I would have to be at home would make me happy.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:03 am

lady cop wrote: every sunday morning i check the lottery numbers to see if i won anything. it's always a bust of course! last wednesday i won a whopping $72. do you play? what would you do if you won a big one? i won $50,000. twice in Mass. years ago, at the time it was HUGE. i feel like i'd be crazy not to play, 2 bucks a week. but every sunday morning i get depressed! :rolleyes:

I missed the Multi State Gazillion payout by only 6 numbers.:-3

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:16 am

Lon wrote: I missed the Multi State Gazillion payout by only 6 numbers.:-3

Bummer! That's what I always miss by too! Huh!

:yh_think

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:38 pm

Bullet and I would buy a mountain in Tennessee, build our house on top, and make a two-track to get to it. 4-wheel drives only could access it. Peace and quiet and no one bothering us.

LeanneinEngland · Post by **LeanneinEngland** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:00 am

OpenMind wrote: The National Lottery winnings in the UK are tax free too.:p

Which is another great reason to live here!

I'm still waiting on my big win. :yh_pray

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:05 am

Can I borrow some money, LC?:)

I would probably buy a modest house, and one each for some family members. A modest car and then buy my husband a nice sailboat and then invest the rest in some kinf of real estate ventures. I would give almost half to charity, though.

Post by **spot** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:41 am

lady cop wrote: every sunday morning i check the lottery numbers"TALLAHASSEE -- No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, leading to an estimated $82 million jackpot for the next drawing, officials said Sunday."

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:18 am

Nomad wrote: Money can do many things for us, it can buy us neat toys, it can get us out of debt, it can allow us to travel, but when it really comes down to it, what is it that really makes you happy ? Does it have anything to do with money ?

Not for me.

You're right Nom, Money itself is not all that important!:-2

THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE IT ARE!!! :wah:

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:28 am

lady cop wrote: every sunday morning i check the lottery numbers to see if i won anything. it's always a bust of course! last wednesday i won a whopping $72. do you play? what would you do if you won a big one? i won $50,000. twice in Mass. years ago, at the time it was HUGE. i feel like i'd be crazy not to play, 2 bucks a week. but every sunday morning i get depressed!

Yes LC, I've probably mentioned this previouly a while back. I had such mixed emotions in April 1997, when I had "5" out of the 6 numbers needed to win a $3-1/2 million dollar lotto jackpot. If I had a stinkin 10 instead of a 25 I would have been a multi-millionaire. The consolation was though, that I did win $2,411, but that's a far cry from $3-1/2 million! :wah:

:rolleyes: :-2

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:11 am

a fantasy i know.....but if i won that i would buy each of my kids a home, give a million dollars to a certain charity, buy a live-aboard boat in the keys and a cottage in England. nothing ostentatious. just sweet and comfortable with a fireplace.

LeanneinEngland · Post by **LeanneinEngland** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:02 am

lady cop wrote: a fantasy i know.....but if i won that i would buy each of my kids a home, give a million dollars to a certain charity, buy a live-aboard boat in the keys and a cottage in England. nothing ostentatious. just sweet and comfortable with a fireplace.

The cottage might take up another million.

Okay, maybe not a whole million, but house prices are ridiculous over here now. My in-laws paid Ã‚£130K for their 2-bedroom bungalo (house all on one floor) just over a year ago. That's $230,000+ USD for a really small house, especially by American standards. Shocking!

And we're not even close to London, where house prices are totally insane.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:09 am

it's funny Leanne, when Bothwell comes over here the exchange rate is such he thinks it's cheap. and i think it's expensive!

LeanneinEngland · Post by **LeanneinEngland** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:24 am

lady cop wrote: it's funny Leanne, when Bothwell comes over here the exchange rate is such he thinks it's cheap. and i think it's expensive!

My mother and I have the same sorts of conversations/experiences.

It's wonderful when I'm sending them money or buying gifts online at US websites. It's crap when they try to send things to us. $100 suddenly becomes only Ã‚£56.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:23 am

http://www.webmath.com/lottery.html

so mathematically for you to have had a big win twice lc is amazing

Post by **spot** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:37 pm

The winner of tonight's drawing -- if there is a winner -- has the option of taking the prize in a lump sum, though only about $41 million, or receiving the entire $82 million spread over 30 years in equal annual payments.

The drawing is at 11 p.m. Ticket sales are cut off at 10:45 p.m.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... -headlines

randall · Post by **randall** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:51 pm

:-6

randall trawling around, again,

"Lady Cop" I have a system to stop the blues and I did think it up all by myself

I buy lottery tickets regularly BUT (A) I never watch the draws, (B) I never check the newspapers or teletex/ceefax - on British TV.

I wait until I go to buy the next lot and ask the - usually - ladies to check my tickets for me and I have had some pleasant surprises.

Not a cent in my pocket today - went into W.H Smith the newsagent and asked the lady to check the tickets and low and behold the "Euromillions" ticket gave me Ã‚£8-75p - not a lot but the extra three pounds over the five pound note let me buy three tickets for tonight. But a man walked away with a cool Ã‚£7,000,000.00p plus last Friday night.

My getting the ladies to check my tickets has an ulterior motive - there has been several cases in Britain of people actually having a winning ticket but - telephoned the company - "CAMELOT" - and telling them but somehow "lost" the ticket before they could collect the money. It is beyond me how on earth this could happen but it has and has even gone to court - "CAMELOT" always - as ever - won each case. No pay out.

My way, I think, registers directly with the central computer that I have won and they have the evidence on it - maybe I am wrong - because I am seldom right - there you go, right again.

See - NO BLUES!

The "Euromillions" gave me Ã‚£100-00p the week before leaving for Florida and that was the week the Irish lady won Ã‚£77,000,000.

Her tale is worth retelling.

After watching the draws on the TV she just could not believe that that piece of paper in her hand was worth so much.

She sat in a state of shock for an hour or two and then telephoned the police and asked them if they would look after the ticket for her - The Garda said it was nothing to do with them.

She sat for another hour or two shaking?Shivering? I don't know but at two in the morning she telephoned her bank manager.

That man is an example to ALL bank managers. He actually got out of bed. Drove to her house. Picked her up and drove her down to the bank - at 0200 hours remember - opened the bank and locked the ticket into a safe and gave her a receipt.

Within a week most of it was gone - as I would, because I have not intention of Gordon Brown laying his hands on any of my winnings - she distributed almost all of the money through her entire family and gave a lot to charity.

My wife and I have won several Ã‚£25 and Ã‚£50 on the Premium Bonds but, so far, not enough to improve our lot in life.

The story of Ernie - the "ELECTRONIC RANDOM NUMBER" generator, It is NOT a computer as it cannot be programmed.

The first one in the middle nineteen fifties when Harold McMillan introduced the idea of Premium Bonds, weighed two tons and took about a week to calculate the winners.

There have been four, apparently, I am depending on memory, and the latest one is the size of a DVD Player and takes four hours to calculated the million or so winners. If it was the first ERNIE today it would take 52 days to calculate the winners.

As is said before - there is no tax on gambling winnings in Britain. They did try it for a while but I think it cost more to operate than it took in and, I believe it was only used on bookies and racing.

The Premium Bonds have always been tax free - and you can alway take back whatever you put in. Without interest - of course.

One BBC programme a long time back discussing the lottery had a psychiatrist along with gambling experts - the interesting thing I learned from that is NEVER use the same numbers every time as THAT is what causes it to become an obsession. If not an addiction. So I always ask for a "Lucky Dip".

If you see a winning number and it was your numbers and you had forgotten to buy a ticket it could do all queer things with your mind.

I have never had any luck with the Florida Lottery on my visits there and never in my seventeen years in Hong Kong did I ever win anything on the "Jockey Club" draw - the only legal gambling allowed in Hong Kong then and all of the money went to charity - it was only run during the racing season.

Best of luck to you all - I'm sorry for SnoozeControl - living in Utah - not getting the chance.

The so called Canadian Lotteries ripped off thousands of mainly old age pensioners in Britain. On man gave them Ã‚£75,000 altogether. Unexpectedly he found himself in Vancouver and although he could not remember the name of the Lottery??? He remembered the street and that they had asked him I call in and have a drink if he was ever in Vancouver.

He was interviewed on the BBC news one morning. What guts!

He found the street but, of course, there was no lottery firm there.

Even I have been in touch with the RCMP who also put me in touch with the US equivalent in Kansas, Missouri (Is that right - it always sounded odd to me ?) as they all combined to wipe out this tele-marketing of none existent lotteries

Some families here have found that their old mother or father had literally send everything they had on these corrupt people. Hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Another recent discussion group on the BBC claimed that a million is not enough to allow you to live like a millionaire - as the young lady mentioned about house prices in London and the south of England. They reckoned you would need about ten million to live like a millionaire.

There is always someone of course, Michael Winner, the film director, upset a great many people first by saying that you needed at least thirty million "loose change" to live like a millionaire and that everything north of London should be concreted in because who on earth would want to live there.

God bless you all and the best of luck to everyone.

Hope you realise your dream (S)

randall

:)

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:17 am

Well we used to play the lottery a few years back every weekend, but we sure as heck never won anything big. I think we won a total of about Ã‚£200 over the course, but gave it up after realising that it was a complete waste of time and money.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:24 am

Two ticket-holders in Central Florida win Lottery

Two tickets matched all six Florida Lottery numbers in Wednesday night's $82 million jackpot, but South Florida locations didn't provide the lucky numbers.

The tickets were purchased in Port St. Lucie and Lady Lake, northwest of Orlando, according to The Associated Press. Each ticket-holder will receive $41 million.

In addition, 490 tickets matched all five numbers and each won $4,268.50; 25,986 tickets matched four numbers, which pays $65; and 503,152 tickets matched three numbers, which pays $4.50.

The winning Florida Lotto numbers were 12-13-17-27-32-36.well it wasn't me! *sniff*

LeanneinEngland · Post by **LeanneinEngland** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:31 pm

I had a friend who used to play the Virginia State Lottery, and I thought he had a really good system. Once a year he would send them a check to cover playing 1 ticket each week. (I think, in return, that they actually notified him when he won.) Once he wrote the check, he wrote off the money in his mind and just waited to see what happened.

As long as I was in touch with him he never won a jackpot, but he did have several nice smaller winnings, ranging from something like $10 to well over $1000. Because this extra money in his mind, he always used the winnings for something special he "wouldn't have bought otherwise". Out of a $1000 win, he got a $300 suit (which was a lot more in the late 80's) as well as a $400 watch. Nice!

randall · Post by **randall** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:54 am

:-6

randall with some news,

There is a new lottery starting up in May by "CHARIOT" made up of all the charities "CAMELOT" in it wisdom (which is not very bright?) refuses to help.

The odds are better but the top prize will not make you very rich - about Ã‚£200,000-oop

THAT would do me nicely and set me up for the years I have got left.

I do not know the price of the tickets but the draw is going to be on a Monday (LC - No Monday Blues) but I think that they may be cheaper.

The reason we got involved in lotteries was that WE WERE TOLD OF ALL THE MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO "good causes".

SINCE THEN WE HAVE BEEN BITTERLY DISILLUSIONED !

It more or less came to light at the last auction for the right to run the National Lottery when Richard Branson offered to to run it for free - I believe him and from the way he treats his employees - probably would.

I believe that Spain has had a lottery running for over three hundred years and it was originally started to finance hospitals!

Obvious, I have been luckier than most but when I loose I just say, well its going to a good cause.

The mysterious G Tech 3 or G3 (of the United States) which always seems to be hovering in the background of CAMELOT and also supplied all the equipment and know-how to run it makes me more and more certain that a lot of money is going to shareholders somewhere

So here's to the new one and may God bless it and grant it success in helping more and more people.

God bless.

randall.

:)

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:22 am

Make sure you tell us when the new Lottery comes up Randall. I agree with what you say about Richard Branson. IMO they should make the top prize less and the lesser pizes more if you get my drift....I mean Ã‚£10...what's that all about ?

Good luck for tonight everyone :yh_shamrk :yh_shamrk :yh_shamrk

randall · Post by **randall** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:41 pm

:-6

Thanks a million BEZ for your post,

Like you randall has little inclination or hope of becoming a multi millionaire overnight.

Today I went with my wife for her to collect the old age pension from the Post Office (WHICH IS UNDER THREAT OF CLOSURE!!!????) My wife is of the OLD SCHOOL who likes the feel of the money in her hand and bitterly resents the unceasing attempts for us to put our small pensions into a bank account - for which, as she rightly says - the banks will take even more of our money away "servicing our account" simply because it will be so small. HALIFAX, blatantly - but honestly - told everyone with small accounts to close them a few years ago. Plus the fact that the Government will always be able to check exactly;y how much money we have.

We have to walk about half a mile to the post office and the nearest bank is over a mile away - almost next door to the other remaining post office - the MAIN POST OFFICE!

As she was in the PO I went next door to Neishe's (A small supermarket - I do not know how widespread they are but their bags have the logo "NISA" on them) to check my weekend lottery numbers and once again came away with five pounds which then paid for Wednesday's lottery.

Check up WEB PAGE SMI LOTTERIES - apparently it is run by a Terry Sissons who has organised on-line lotteries for many years and as there is quite a lot of reading it would be better for you to look it up and print it out/or read it yourself. The name "CHARIOT" has also been mentioned on the BBC and comes up in the above web page.

Apparently they are going to give five different charities a chance to share the money each week.

They have raised the top winnings ot Ã‚£600,000 compared with the Ã‚£200,000 mentioned on the BBC.

There are going to be more smaller prizes and the odds are pretty good compared with all the other lotteries.

I play them only because I was - falsely - I believe, told that more of the share would be going to charities. I believe it is about 23p in the pound at present.

On a list on the BBC last week dealing mainly with Scotland, I was absolutely astounded at the requests for help turned down by CAMELOT compared with some of the stupid things, also listed, that they poured money into only for them to fail - as it was obvious that they would.

Thank God for the Princes' Trust.

Now I will be changing to the new one even though it can only be played on-line.

A point which the lady at Neishe's was determined to argue with me about saying that not every one has a computer and tonight the news mentioned that 8,000,000 school children out of 9,000,000 were on the internet - the programme was about the new fight against "grooming and child porn"

I have heard that we have more silver surfers as a percentage of the population than any other country on earth.

Reluctantly I have had to tell Tiscali that I shall have to give up my "Broadband" link as I simply cannot afford to keep it going.

I have found the solution to the spelling check on these posts. Always come onto Forum Garden through Internet Express. If I use a link from Outlook Express there is no spell checker. ONE PROBLEM SOLVED.

I believe that we come under the very old fashioned terminology of "genteel poverty" mainly because, as far, as I know, the government makes no allowance in the old age pension for the upkeep of the fabric of the house you are living in which seems to be in constant need of repair; not to mention the garden

When we moved into the house in 1974 - it was the only house for sale owing to the so called "Oil Boom". It was one of five in the middle of a field with only a dirt road and no paving, sewage or public lighting.

As I am fond of putting it, we had cows back and front and I loved it because it was also far from a town.

About ten years later they "improved" the road and speculator builders built a series of bungalows into which moved literal millionaires - money made from selling their fishing boats and "fishing certificates" .

The government had given the certificates to them for nothing - you can sell one to the Spaniards, Norwegians, Lithuanians, etc nowadays for up to "Ã‚£20,000,000" I personally think that government should never have allowed them to be sold but handed back when the men had finished fishing.

Anyway, Bez, these incomers to our "NEW" street pushed up the rates - as we call the council taxes - immensely and when one of our old neighbours husbands died suddenly in the middle of a dance at a wedding - he was under sixty - his widow appealed to have her rates reduced and was told bluntly to "Sell your house. You live in a desirable area."

"Where will I live then."

"That's your problem, Not ours." was the cruel and unfeeling reply.

She had to sell her house. Another millionaire moved in and she just vanished - somewhere.

Oddly enough, one of these millionaires was complaining to me today, when I asked about her husband who has had a long life of ill health and is at present in hospital.

Her complaint is that she will likely have to sell her house to go into a home when she gets older after her husband dies.

It is true that we are all the same in the end.

God bless.

randall,

:)

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:19 pm

Hello Randall

Sorry to hear that you're having to give up Tiscali. How will get onto the internet ?

I have never won anything in all my 59 years, but a couple of months ago I won Ã‚£60 on the lottery...I was in shock i can tell you...then....3 weeks later I went to Bingo with a friend who doesn't drive so can't normally go although she loves it (not really my cup of tea)...anyway I won Ã‚£500 ....again i was in shock. There is a tradition amongst Bingo players that you share the winnings, so we had Ã‚£250 each and i bought myself a new bike that I had been promising myself for over a year. The moral of this story...'good things come to those who wait' . I have no wish to be a millionaire, but it would be nice if we didn't have to struggle to make ends meet, but could rather tie a tiny bow sometimes.

Good luck Randall

Post by **spot** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:02 pm

Randall, there's a new offshoot of OneTel which might bring your connection expenses into a sustainable range. You can see their offer at http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/serv ... IC.TESTHUB

To summarise:

You currently pay a monthly BT rental of Ã‚£11 and they take that payment from you. Additionally they charge you a monthy useage tariff of Ã‚£10.

What they provide for that is national landline phone charges of 2.70p a minute weekdays and 5p per 70 minutes evenings and weekend, and a permanently-on 8 Megabit broadband connection with a monthly useage cap of 40 Gigabytes. I'm a heavy user and I never hit that high a transfer volume myself.

They provide a suitable modem and charge a one-time connection fee of Ã‚£30.

I do hope that comes closer to your budget. Losing a high-speed connection once you've grown accustomed to the opportunities it affords would be a blow.

The passing of rural post offices is a callous cutback on the government's social priorities. Have you ever written to your Member of Parliament? http://www.writetothem.com/ is a suitable portal, unless you restrain yourself to a thick accumulated envelope once a week into the letter box, the price of a stamp being what it is. Had I been told in my youth that four letters would cost a pound postage I'd have laughed at the impossibility, though I was drinking my pint at less than 10p and perhaps I'd have been even more astonished at how that's passed affordability too.