Weekend!
There are a million ways to almost win the lottery. We almost won it on Monday.
I spent 5 bucks on a MegaMillions ticket (it was up to 100 million) and, if you counted all of the numbers on all of the tickets, we’d have had a Megaball +3. Yeah, yeah, that’s only fifty bucks, but, hey. Fifty bucks. (As it turns out, the system itself decreed that we only won a dollar.)
I suppose, as ways to almost win the lottery, that’s better than standing in front of the guy in line who bought the winning ticket, standing behind the guy in line who bought the winning ticket, getting all of the Megaball numbers incremented up (or down) one, or (my favorite) getting all of the Megaball numbers for the wrong drawing.
I mean, sure, it’s pretty much a waste of money to buy a ticket or five every time the lottery gets over 100 million… but the daydreams are so very much better that way.
You can get your daydreams about paying off debts, paying off parents’ debts, paying off siblings’ debts, paying of besties’ debts, setting up college and/or retirement accounts out of the way and still have enough money left over to actually daydream about throwing money around rather than just having daydreams about sitting down at a desk with an accountant for 3 weeks straight. Which, as daydreams go, is not worth a dollar.
But Megamillions is up to $150. So the daydreams are going to be even better than last week’s.
So, in addition to buying a Megamillions ticket, we’ve got a chock-full-to-overflowing weekend. Friends have flown in from out of town and we’re playing poker tonight, tomorrow is errands and more errands followed by dinner and gaming at a friend’s, and Sunday is a family day spent celebrating the last quarter’s birthdays (note to self: pick up toys for the nephews and movie gift certs for the Mother-In-Law). That’s one of those weekends that makes you look forward to Monday because it’s less stressful, I tell you what.
So… what’s on your docket?
might be acceptable
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Note that the mother-in-law is actually his sister’s mother-in-law, his mother-in-law is in Canada and she has a summer birthday. it’s a long story as to why his sister’s mother-in-law is part of our family, too, but she is awesome so it is all good.
Further note that I spent all morning hanging out with furnace guys as we got our ducts cleaned for the first time in the 11 years we have lived in this house. i’m *already* ready for a weekend of doing nothing, but instead I am even busier than Jaybird, with all the stuff he mentions plus a social engagement tomorrow morning and work on Sunday morning. Good times.Report
Good, now that they’re clean, get them sealed so you don’t need to do it again.
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My deck guy and my handy man were both here on the same day earlier this week. They knew one another (the latter had recommended the former to us). Anyway, apparently someone they both knew had recently won $300k in the lottery. Apparently the person needed it really badly.
My aunt (the one with the brawling family) will be bringing over a bunch of furniture tomorrow, so that’s going to be a big thing. My mother-in-law is in town (in case you missed that post, they were talking about whether she needs a nap two hours after she woke up!) (But seriously, my mother-in-law is pretty awesome.). My sister-in-law will be stopping by this weekend.
The aforementioned handy man has dropped off the face of the earth. He no-showed for three consecutive days and isn’t returning our calls. I’d be worried that he took the deposit money and ran, but he left all of his tools here as well as the stuff I think he bought with the deposit money.Report
It’s unlikely to pay off, sure, but I think it’s probably not actually a waste of money to buy some tickets when it’s over 100 million in payoff. This is pari-mutuel betting, sometimes the odds can favor you.Report
Yeah, when Mega Millions is over 100 and when Powerball is over 200, it becomes a good bet (fsvo “good”). I pretty much have priced my daydreams to be worth about 5 bucks.Report