To feel that winning the lottery is the answer to all my prayers?

[Allthebees]

I could stop working and I could spend more time with DD and DH and do something I love (learn languages, travel). I could see my parents for leisurely days out rather than only when I rely on them for childcare.

I wouldn't feel so runragged. I'd feel more engaged with friends and family because I'd have time to do so.

I wouldn't feel so shitty about my appearance because I could get a personal trainer, nutritionist, personal shopper.

We could have more babies because we could afford to give them a good start/university education.

Hate that this feels like the answer to my prayers.

People who say money isn't important to them have enough of it.

Money makes life comfortable and secure and therefore you're more likely to be content. Contentment is fine by most people.

There was a Co op syndicate in our town who recently won half a million between them, which meant £30,000 each. This is a really life changing amount of money for almost all of them. It would certainly make me pretty happy.

However you are very very very very very very very very unlikely to win a significant amount of money on the lottery. You could save up all those pounds and invest them and see a better return. Or you could use them to phone TV programmes to try and get on things like In It To Win It with Nick Knowles :o

Do you live with your partner then, Littlemisssarcastic? I take it he wouldn't voluntarily leave?

Would you be interested in going back to college to study for an Access course? Is there anything you particularly want to do, career-wise, in the future?

I hate to think of you feeling so stuck.

The chance of winning the lottery is so so small, that it really isn't worth it.
Imagine that you are on a beach, and there are sand grains all around you as far as the eye can see. There is 1 red sand grain hidden somewhere, and to win the lottery you've got to close your eyes, and pick up a random, single sandgrain, and if it is red, you have won.
You could be at it for hundreds of thousands years, constantly picking sand up, and never, ever find the winning sand grain.

You'd be better spending your time getting an education, starting a business, falling in love, really concentrating on making your life better and happier. Money helps, but the lottery is not the answer.

Also, the lottery only works if very, very few people ever win it. If everyone had a lottery win, all the extra money would be spent cause huge, rapid inflation. Suddenly it will cost £1 million pounds for a loaf of bread, and everyone would be poor again.

Do you really want to be giving away money so all the wealth is concentrating in a few individuals? What happening to all the rage around bankers bonuses?

Thanks all, and you too. for all that are genuinely struggling.

Phallic people win it every week. Someone in my village won £5 million as I said up thread. The minuscule amount that I spend on my one line twice a week isn't going to make a hapheth of difference to any other area of my life or anyone else's so I may as well take my chances of winning no matter how small!

Exactly costa. someone has got to win!

A lottery win wouldn't make me younger, or better looking, or less prone to the grumps.

And of course, I'd have to have an entourage. Imagine one of those waking up the neighbours, pissing in the hedges, making chips at 3 am and drinking the good whisky. GAH!

Money would definitely help with my problems, because most of them centre around it. With the way that pensions are and the way that my finances are, a lottery ticket is pretty much the only planning for my future that I am able to do.

Come on, just read out those six little numbers ...

ImperialFucker I live alone with DD. Thank God for DD.

"Someone wins it every week" yeah, 1 person out of 60,000,000 people - a number so huge it is hard to even grasp how many it really is. It just seems lots of people are winning because those people are in the news.

The lottery is a "tax on hope and innumeracy".

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/515481.stm

It also helps an awful lot of charitable causes Phallic, I don't think £16 a month would go far setting up a new business somehow and I enjoy thinking I might win one day. It's nice to have a little day dream .