They’re getting too much. I think they’ve become obsessive as I make excessive plans on how I’m going to spend the money if I win and this in some way going to make my life better. I’m spending loads of money on scratch cards. I go to the shop and buy scratch cards all the time and never win anything, I know I’m not going to win.
Time to kick this habit. I’m reading about gambling addition and I don’t want to go down that road.
And my life isn’t even that bad financially at the moment. I have an unhealthy fantasy about winning big. I don’t want it to take over my life.
Yeah, I agree it sounds like a gambling problem rather than using it as a form of entertainment. Your odds of winning big are not too good and having fantasies about winning and spending “loads of money” on it does not sound healthy.
I do 1 lotto ticket every 1 or 2 weeks. It’s like 6 bucks.
The odds are basically pure luck so doesn’t matter if you buy 1 or 100000 tickets. It’s still ridiculous odds of winning the big one
I used to have big fantasies of how I’d spend a lot of money. But I’m too afraid of playing the lottery anymore. Realistically, I think that if I won a really big amount, like 70 million, it would make me a target. People I know would be at risk of being abducted and ransomed. If I split my winnings (I’d have to do this to protect family), I’d worry that I’d be abducted and ransomed. I don’t have a car, and I have to walk and bus everywhere. I’d be worried about people harassing me for money, or scammers trying to steal from me. I would always wonder if people like me for me, or for my money.
I don’t play the lottery. Taken the statistics into account it doesn’t make sense. Maybe you could try to do a 30 day detox and not spend any money in that period on any form of gambling.
People are conditioned into the fact that money buys happiness. It doesnt buy a loving wife or children. It also leaves you wide open to parasites when you got plenty of it.
Just be happy with what you got, whatever that may be. And people that brag about it, or somehow think they are above you cos “they are loaded” are not the type of personalitys i would wish to associate with.
I gamble sometimes. I have an addictive personality so I have to be careful. I really struggle with various addictions….vaping….gambling….video games and sometimes alcohol. I think my addictive personality comes from my dads side of the family.
I’m obsessed with getting a tpd payout through my insurer. I just need my doctor to support the fact that I’m totally and permanently disabled. It’s only 500k so not big winnings, but it would make life more comfortable for a while. At this point it feels as unlikely as the lotto.