Did you get your lottery ticket bought today? I know I did! I know some people that went crazy buying their Mega Millions Lottery Tickets! Some people spent a couple dollars while others spent thousands of dollars on these tickets. I understand that it is every ones wish to be rich or even hit the lottery. I understand that the odds are quit huge. Seriously, though, people spending their entire weeks pay on these tickets are taking it a little over board!
If there is now winner of this $640 million prize, the jackpot will end up being worth an estimated $975 million. This jackpot has people from Juarez, Mexico crossing in to the United States just to buy these tickets for this jackpot.
"Mexicans from Ciudad Juarez were crossing the Rio Grande on Friday to buy tickets in El Paso, Texas.”I would divide the money among my
children and buy them a house here in El Paso,
and we would come from Juarez (to) here to live in peace," said one man.
The odds of winning the jackpot are about one in 176
million, which means a person would have a better chance of being struck by lightning.
Richard Lustig,
a seven-time lottery winner who has written a book about lottery strategies,
said it is good to buy tickets as part of a group, to increase "buying
power." In addition, while the urge to take a chance on such a big jackpot
may be alluring, Lustig said to guard
against getting too enthusiastic.
"Don't go crazy with this," he said.
"Don't get what's called lottery fever. Do not spend grocery money. Do not
spend rent money."
Therefore, to all my fellow classmates, if you
bought one of these tickets, Good Luck!
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