Art by Christine Nelson Each time a national lottery prize reaches astronomical heights, a level of cold, hard cash that the vast majority of Americans will never attain — at least overnight, anyways — we seem to dream quite a bit more than we typically do. Newscasters on stations everywhere ask people on the street, “What would you do with the jackpot?” and invariably, … [Read more...] about So You Didn’t Win the Powerball — Now What?
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Don’t Spend on Lotto Tickets
Art by Christine Nelson I honestly never had an interest in any sort of lottery participation until I had a group of six or seven college students storm my couch the night that the numbers were to be announced. They’d all purchased between one and seven lotto tickets, holding onto the gleaming shred of hope that maybe, just maybe, it would be them. This first experience … [Read more...] about Don’t Spend on Lotto Tickets