Why do people think money will change

[AnythingButVanilla]

I'd quite like to win the lottery as it would mean being able to live in a house instead of a flat and I'd be in a position to give up my day job and work as a therapist full time. A million should be enough to see me comfortable.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

My genuine big win lottery fantasy includes hiring a yacht to spend a couple of years cruising the sites of antiquity and biblical story, a world tour to the far flung corners and historic home sites, a tutor coming along for my kids so they get an all round education way beyond the scope of an inner city comprehensive, Setting my eldest up in business so he can work 70 hours a week for himself not other people, a rescue centre set up as a real home, rather than pens, for the greyhounds and injured dogs nobody else wants and who will otherwise spend their lives in an institution & building my local council estate a new school to match the dedication and commitment of the teachers that are overperforming in a cr@phole building complex.
Then I imagine my day to day lottery winner life to be like a free Hannibal Lekter, of art and culture and photography and music but without the eating people.

Realistically I would love to have enough money to offset the pay cuts and freezes we've both suffered recently, to pay the overdraft off and salt enough away to be able to be lazy unimaginitive and boring without the panic of how to pay for a new boiler as my curent one is likely to be condemned as unfixably obsolete when the gasman comes before 1 o'clock.

 

[vernon]

Firstly, I have not once said I do the same job as them. I do a different one and without sounding like an peanut my wage is different from theirs. Much different!!.

So they get paid a lot more than you?

 

[I like Skol]

Firstly, I have not once said I do the same job as them. I do a different one and without sounding like an peanut my wage is different from theirs. Much different!!. So that negates that point.
Secondly, I have a very active life. I have hobbies, interests, friends, family and my life doesn't revolve around a TV every night. These 3 peoples lifes does as that is what they talk about what they did the previous evening. I work here. You don't.
Thirdly, I hate folk who reply in threads who make assumptions about my job, salary and ability to interact with people and question the location of my head. You arse!

You are (a thinly disguised) User30090 AICMFP!

 

[Paul99]

Thirdly, I hate folk who reply in threads who make assumptions about my job, salary and ability to interact with people and question the location of my head. You arse!

Yet you make assumptions about the people you work with. How do you know they go home and just watch soaps and reality tv? Do you go home with them?

I talk about what I watched on tv or read etc to my colleagues because that is all I want to talk to them about. My hobbies and interests outside of work are my business and I don't have them in common with my colleagues, so we don't talk about them.

I do the lottery, and if I ever win big I will be buying lots of materialistic shiiiite
I will also give plenty to my dad so that he can fulfill his philanthropic dreams.

 

[EltonFrog]

Firstly, I have not once said I do the same job as them. I do a different one and without sounding like an peanut my wage is different from theirs. Much different!!. So that negates that point.
Secondly, I have a very active life. I have hobbies, interests, friends, family and my life doesn't revolve around a TV every night. These 3 peoples lifes does as that is what they talk about what they did the previous evening. I work here. You don't.
Thirdly, I hate folk who reply in threads who make assumptions about my job, salary and ability to interact with people and question the location of my head. You arse!

Oh the irony!

 

[ASC1951]

Firstly, ....
Secondly, ....
Thirdly, I hate folk who reply in threads who make assumptions about my job, salary and ability to interact with people and question the location of my head. You arse!

Combined with your original post, you come across as a short-tempered self-centred snob. So a big lottery win would improve your colleagues lives - they wouldn't have to work with you any longer.


I'm sure you aren't like this in real life.

 

[swee'pea99]

When I worked behind a shop counter, the guys I worked with used to dream of winning the pools (remember them folks?). I used to say to them, 'Just about your favourite thing in life is going out for a drink with your mates, right? Ok, say you won a million. Next time you go out for a drink, who buys the first round? How about the second? Do you buy every round, because you're so rich, or do you take beer off them, even though it costs them hard-earned? Do you resent them for expecting you to buy more? Or do you worry that they're resenting you for not buying more than 'your fair share', after all, you're stinking rich now, right? Basically, you're a millionaire now, and they're not....how long can you stay mates? And when it all goes tits up and you can't go out for a drink with your mates anymore because somehow they're not really your mates anymore, what are you going to do - buy some more?'

It would all go quiet for a bit.

And then they'd go back to talking about how great it would be if they won the pools.

 

[Davidc]

The lottery is a tax on the innumerate.

That said I have occasionally bought a £2 ticket when the jackpot is >£180,000,000 even though the odds are worse than 100,000,000:1 against.

 

[User482]

I've observed that people who claim winning the lottery wouldn't change their lives for the better are very rarely poor.

 

[swee'pea99]

"I been rich and I been poor, and rich is better." - Shirley Bassey

 

[Davidc]

the odds may not be in our favour but you got to be in it to win it...

You gotta be out of it not to lose on it.

 

[Paul99]

The lottery is a tax on the innumerate.

Wow. There are over 3000 innumerate millionaires in this country.

 

[vernon]

Wow. There are over 3000 innumerate millionaires in this country.

That's 0.0047% of the population.

 

[Davidc]

Wow. There are over 3000 innumerate millionaires in this country.

Plus a lot more people who've lost a lot.

I'm more than happy for people to do it regularly. It pays for all sorts of useful things. Unlike smoking, which also pays for things without me contributing, it doesn't make the air smell bad.