[quote=poorgradstudent]My mother-in-law has a better job these days, but at her previous job when she had a bad day she would go to the 7-11 and buy a lotto ticket. Just imagining what life would be like if she won and could quit her job made her feel better and gave her peace of mind.
I’d call that $1 well spent. Heck, I routinely spend $2 to get a similar sense of happiness from a sugar soda![/quote]
lol – that’s not a bad way to look at it.
As long as she’s not spending $100 per paycheck.
I’ve probably bought 10 tickets over the past 10 years. My problem is I get equal parts warm fuzzies from imagining winning and repulsive guilt from throwing away money (this part comes in after checking the winning numbers 🙂 ).
