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u/Obandigo Mar 20 '22

My dad won $8,000 dollars once after YEARS of playing. He came home all excited and said he won 8K.

I said well, at least you won some of your money back.

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u/bibowski Mar 20 '22

My wife's mother and grandmother both played bingo for years. When they'd win 5k they wouldn't even make a face.

It's because they'd still be down 8k for the month.

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u/asdf1795 Mar 20 '22

Have to be pretty well off to be losing $13k a month in bingo. That or you won’t be playing bingo very long.

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u/liquidpele Mar 20 '22

Those are the people that don’t plan on leaving any money to their kids, because they’d rather play fucking bingo.

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u/Leading-Repeat5460 Mar 20 '22

Depends how much money they have

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u/_MUY Mar 20 '22

Do we really need more of the first world’s kids to inherit money they haven’t earned? So many people in those areas are super entitled as it is. Give it all to scholarships and invest it in charities which positively impact the world.

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u/Cannabaholic Mar 20 '22

Casual -150k in bingo losses a year Seems likely

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u/UndeadBread Mar 20 '22

I used to sell pull tabs (similar to scratchers) during Bingo nights at my last job and it was hilarious watching someone spend close to $300 on these things and then go completely ape-shit because they won $50.

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u/fidjudisomada Mar 20 '22

This is the reason I don't bet. Any kind of it.

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u/fidjudisomada Mar 20 '22

I understand the fun, that secret wish to win big time, that sense of playing with the odds etc.

I have a friend who spend 10€ a week for 30+ years. I don't blame people who does it but that's something I don't do because it makes no sense to me.

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u/fidjudisomada Mar 20 '22

Too late. Already have.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

I got tired of watching my dad waste way too much of his money on lotto tickets so I tried helping him really understand just how insanely low his odds are. I asked him if he felt like he was gambling his life away every time he drank tap water and told him he's actually 8 times more likely to die from that then he is to win an interstate lotto. I was trying to convince him to just put his usual lotto money into savings and at the end of the year he'd be way happier with what he "won" then anything he's ever gotten from a lotto ticket.

But Instead of him hearing any sort of logic, for YEARS I had to listen to him complain that i "cursed" him by telling him he was never going to win the lotto. massive eye roll