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Do you buy them?
Why does it take some people so long to select a scratch card?
What's the point of holding up a queue while giving a lot of thought to  selecting a variety of cards?
What criteria is used to select them.
Worse, - why do some people scratch the stuff away at the Lottery stand leaving behind a bitty mess on the tiny writing area?


Ok - it is trivial - sorry. But it's preying on my mind. 

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I bought 8 x ÂĢ1 at christmas...  to put in crackers... 

my son won ÂĢ2...  the rest. - not a sausage!



I am flabbergasted sometimes when I see people buying huge strips of them...  costing 30 odd quid & the like!

they never look like the sort of people that can afford to throw that kind of money away either.


Don;t get my wrong...  I do have a couple of quid a week on the Lotto..    but scratchcards - nah
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Clumsycat:
dont buy them... mum bought me 20 of them at xmas as a stocking filler.. got about 15.00 back on the lot.. waste of money
I normally do that at christmas as stocking fillers for about 7/8 of us. I end up buying about ÂĢ14/ÂĢ16 quids worth for everyone to have two. We have had a fifty pound winner in one of these
FM
Originally Posted by sproooot:
Originally Posted by Clumsycat:
dont buy them... mum bought me 20 of them at xmas as a stocking filler.. got about 15.00 back on the lot.. waste of money
I normally do that at christmas as stocking fillers for about 7/8 of us. I end up buying about ÂĢ14/ÂĢ16 quids worth for everyone to have two. We have had a fifty pound winner in one of these

50 squid?   wow.. they done good
Clumsycat
Originally Posted by Rexi:

I always buy them for my kids' Christmas stocking. I put them in an envelope with a picture of Santa on the front and a speech bubble which reads "if you win, don't forget to share it with your lovely family".

Well come on ... I couldn't have one of them being a millionaire and leaving the rest poor, could I

Pondlifes adopted brother (his Mum took in another 13 year old boy, when my ex - Pondlife, was 13, and raised him, to all intents & purposes he was his brother)...   when this brother settled down with a girl, she lived with Ponds mum too...   and they stayed living with her when their first child was born.

He won 7.7 million on the lottery.     First Pondlife & his mum knew about it was when I told them, having heard about it on the grapevine.      They were a bit surprised they hadn't heard from them directly..   but then a big envelope came through the door...    with three envelopes inside it, addressed to Mum, Pondlife (obviously real name),  and the older brother.
 
Inside Ponds Mums envelope was a cheque for ÂĢ100, inside Ponds & his brothers was a cheque for ÂĢ50 each!


There are no words for some things that happen really!
Dirtyprettygirlthing
If I am brutally honest Rexi..   I can understand why the sister in law may not be right keen on Ponds mother..    I wasn't either.   

But that doesn't mean I wouldn't have done the right thing and sorted her out with enough to make a little bit of a difference to her life.

As the older brother said..   it would have been better to have not given anything, than the fifty quid! He gave his fifty quid to charity
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Is it just me or is this new game on the lottery programme incredibly confusing?
No it isn't just you Soozy, none of us in my house can understand how it works.

@ Ditty.  There really is nowt as queer as folk. You would have though he might have shown a bit of appreciation for all the years that Pond's mum looked after him.

Brisket, I buy a lottery ticket but never scratch cards.
Yogi19
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
@ Ditty.  There really is nowt as queer as folk. 


ain't that the truth!


& I totally agree about the x5 game..   I did it last week & this week...   its good in that I every day I think "oooh...  might have won"..  bad as in its a headache checking the results.

I have decided I am going to just get my ticket checked at the shop when I buy my weekly ticket.


I used to do it online, but cos of the sticking t key on my old laptop I failed to login correctly three times..    and then got a snotty message that I had to phone someone to unlock my account!   Only time I will be phoning them is if my numbers come up!
Dirtyprettygirlthing
I don't do the lottery scratchcards but I did one of those ones you get free in magazines - it told me I had won something from a selection of about 50 prizes.

So I phoned a premium rate number, much to the annoyance of Mr G, and was told I'd won a trip to France.

The trip was for a single ticket only, one way, no accommodation and didn't include the journey on the ferry.
FM

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