One of my favorite places to look for ideas is Google Trends. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but there are a lot of results today for lotteries of one sort or another. Seems the Powerball had three winners of $800,000-not a bad return on an invest of a dollar or two. According to MarketWatch Powerball players spent $16,281,896 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. Which means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million people didn’t win $800,000. The desire to get something for nothing is a pretty strong one. Gambling has always…
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Mega Millions $270 Million Jackpot
If I had a $1,000,000 (If I had a $1,000,000) I’d buy you an exotic pet(like a llama or an emu) Bare Naked Ladies For the past ten years or so, The Wife has been investing something like twenty dollars a week in the varied and sundry Lotto Games to be found around the country-including the Mega Millions Lotto. I have, from time to time, been tempted myself to buy a handful of Lotto tickets and I won about a hundred dollars one time. The Wife also won a couple of hundred dollars, but for the most part, she never…