At work four of us do the euro & normal, but we are going to stop the normal one after this week, we haven't won anything on it for ages now, we have done better on the euros so we are going to keep doing that, we are going to put the money that we usually spent on the normal lottery on the fixed odds football & pick our own teams, we just put in £2 each a week.
The hook is "you have to be in it to win it"
As for people saying that premium bonds are better, well they are not, I am 38 & my grand parents bought me £25's worth when I was born (1977) well a few weeks after & I have never won anything at all, about ten - fifteen years ago I put £1000 in for an emergency fund & I have never won a single penny, my dad has about £10,000 well he used to I don't know if he still does, he did win £1000 once a few years back & the odd £25 or £50 here & there.
The best thing I did was buy the maximum amount of Royal Mail shares & sold half when they had doubled in price.
The new rules have made it harder to win, Camelot saying that there are more chances to win because of the free Lucky Dip ticket are meaningless really because as the chances of wining are now so low the ticket is basically worthless, as for Richard Branson wanting to take over & have the maximum to only be One Million would make it even worse because it simply doesn't offer the attraction, because you would never be able to live the life of luxury you imagine, you could only invest it & then live off a set amount a week or month for the rest of your life, if you are young it's going to be difficult, there could be no big house or flash cars, to buy a nice house you are looking at £300k to £350k then you have to furnish it & you would want nice stuff so you would have to spend about £50k kitchen, bathroom then the rest of the rooms then the tech TV's etc, then a car or cars so most I think would go for a Range Rover sport which start at £60k then something sporty maybe a Porsche Boxster starts at £40k or a BMW 5 series or Mercedes C class which start around the £40k mark so in all you have spent half your Million already that is before paying of your parents mortgage / helping other family members or even the running costs of the 'stuff' you have bought so you would still have to work your job.
I remember a TV show where they were on about the lottery & they said that you needed to have something like £15m to be able to live a millionaire lifestyle while investing & being sensible without running out of money.
Lottery winners demand benefits again after spending £50k in eight months
