Stop Buying Crap #22 – Lottery Tickets as Christmas Gift
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Just came back from the grocery store and saw this silly thing at the checkout counter.
Nicely done, California State Lottery, nicely done.
Why buy gift cards for Christmas when you can buy a lottery ticket!?
Urgh.
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Lottery Tickets as presents? ?!!!
HOW OBSCENE lazy ignorant can people get.?
At one job, we recieved lottery tickets as year end presents . The majority of us riped them up at the ‘party’. Most of those ‘majority’ no longer work there.
How insulting can some one get.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Hearty agreement here!
Although, some of the (New York) scratch-off games can be kinda fun. Might be a nice thing to slip in a card, if you know the person gets enjoyment just from playing the little game. I like the Bingo ones – I get one about once every…. two years.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I think scratch offs might be fun for a stocking stuff (but you may be teaching the wrong lesson to kids) but that’s about it.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:40 am
My family has always put a few scratcher tickets in everyone’s stocking at christmas. I don’t see anything wrong with it, it’s only a few dollars. We never win anything, but we enjoy the excitement. It’s the only time of the year we ever buy lottery tickets and no one has turned into a lottery junkie as a result.
December 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Well done Cap! I’m chortling in my Capn Crunch at this one. For the last 3 years my boss hands us a couple of these for Christmas- lame! Rather have a Hershey bar. Want to thank you for a long ago heads up from you- am enjoying Yodlee very much- cant believe its still free! God bless Daz
December 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh I should have been more clear. I don’t think they’re anything wrong as a stocking stuffer along with other gifts or some sort of novelty gag gift that you throw in a card… but they shouldn’t be the only gift, as some has mentioned (especially year end Christmas gifts from work).
Thats what I meant when I said “why buy gift cards when you can buy lottery tickets.”
Then again, I guess if the person you’re gifting loves lottery product, why not?
December 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with giving scratch-off lottery tickets as a gift, even as the only or primary gift for someone. Of course, if someone “expects” a better present, then they may be disappointed.
I have an elderly aunt who, for birthday presents, sends a card with a lottery ticket and the horoscope for the birthday. Considering she’s very broke, I find it to be a sweet gesture.
December 13th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Oh, and another thought — lottery tickets are far better than an unwanted knick-knack! They’re clutter-free!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Mass State Lottery is advertising heavily on “give the gift of the lottery”. Buy a scratch ticket, blah blah. All this lottery is manipulated…
December 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Some of my co-workers love those scratch-off “lottery” games. Who am I to judge?
December 19th, 2008 at 4:41 am
here in texas, the only legal gambling is “state “sanctioned, but it still begs the question, why take a camera to the grocery?
December 27th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Bran: I tend to carry a camera in my purse in case I see something interesting in the course of my day. I would imagine that’s pretty typical of dedicated shutterbugs. And once in a while I see something really screwed up in a grocery store and just have to shoot it, like the time I discovered microwave sushi kits. O_O (Minus the fish of course.)
As to the other, hm. I had an idea. We ought to find out where we can send mail to that guy who scammed Wall Street and half the non-profits nationwide… and send him lottery tickets for a late Christmas present. He likes to gamble? Let him gamble. And anything he wins gets taken away from him and donated to charity. And he has to fill them in and/or scratch them all himself.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I love the idea of giving lottery tickets! I have been giving them for years and so has my family.
One year while I was completly broke I gave 2 different lottery tickets to relatives and they both won $50 each. That made a perfect gift considering the circumstances.