Good Waste Of $20

[Mrs Pantherfan]

I'll definitely buy some tickets

you don't win if you don't play, bitches!

[Cat]

This is what I don't understand....so it makes financial sense to spend $20 to win $363M but not so much when that $20 could win you $45M.

Like $45M wouldn't change someones life just as much

Wow someone else actually gets it. Thank you :)

[Mrs Pantherfan]

I'd gladly spend $20 to win 45 mill..I'm not picky...

[Guest]

I'd spend 20 to win 25. If it was guaranteed.

[bleys]

I said this about a 20 bag.. and it was worth it..

[Scrumtrilescent]

I'll definitely buy some tickets

you don't win if you don't play, bitches!

OK. You're on. You buy a ticket, I won't...let's see who wins.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

you laugh now, assface...but when I win one day...no money for you!

[Scrumtrilescent]

I was gonna say, can I get 10% for helping you verify the hypothesis...it's for science.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

Gonna, shmunna...suck it, trebek!

[davos]

20 bucks is a waste...go get an eighth for 60...wait...what are we talking about?

[Black]

Just paid the idiot tax for the first time. $20 down the drain.

It's pretty crazy, the gas station I went to had one register open for lottery tickets, and one open for everything else. I had to wait in a line of about six people.

[Black]

technically if you had 176 million dollars laying around, you could buy every number combination and win and come out a little ahead after taxes..

Jerry Richardson, I need a loan....

Except if someone else wins too, in which case you're screwed.

[Wanderlai]

"Sure, if you take the lump-sum option, you'll get only $389 million. Otherwise, it's 26 annual payments of about $20 million (the forced-discipline option we'd pick if we were the lucky winner). And then there's 25% for federal taxes and also maybe state and local taxes, depending on where you live.

But for the fun of it, let's just imagine how much money $540 million really is.

Here's a visual: If you walked down the street and found a dollar bill on the ground every 10 feet, you'd have to walk the circumference of the Earth 41 times to pick up all 540 million of those bills."

http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=01859c5a-7a48-4b1d-9491-444a4b866890

[Black]

I was reading that certain states make you choose your payment method when you buy the ticket.