Mum who couldn't afford Christmas gifts for her kids wins £1million on a scratchcard

cheets64 · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:43

From my experience people dont buy scratchcards on a "whim"

In poor areas I always see loads of used scratched cards on the floor out side newsagents.

crunchee · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:43

Woody__ said:
Shocking. Using one pound to buy a scratch card. Utterly outraged by this. Where will it end?

Sarcasm?

singist · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:44

Ranger07 said:
I agree Sawell, she is probably a bit of a gambler.

I'll bet she'll blow that money in no time, probably end up bankrupt with debt. her poor kids will be messed up from people scrounging and hangers on.

Of course I hope I'm wrong and she's smart and invests it intelligently but what are the chances.

With all due respect ........ invest it intelligently? ..... you mean like all those wise/clever people who put their money in Icelandic banks?

cheets64 · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:46

Woody__ said:
Shocking. Using one pound to buy a scratch card. Utterly outraged by this. Where will it end?

Try £5 thats a hours wage

Hatter The Mad · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:47

Woody__ said:
Shocking. Using one pound to buy a scratch card. Utterly outraged by this. Where will it end?

Read the article. It costs £5.

cheets64 · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:51

Gaverick said:

haha didnt read that, like he will be able to handle one of those, he will write it off and end up buying another.

THMRK · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:51

£5! Even more shocking. It's despicable, frankly.

Gaverick · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:53

cheets64 said:
haha didnt read that, like he will be able to handle one of those, he will write it off and end up buying another.

Theres so much wrong with it. I hope he doesn't think he is going to buy and insure a new evo or impreza for 30k.

Energize · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:55

singist said:
With all due respect ........ invest it intelligently? ..... you mean like all those wise/clever people who put their money in Icelandic banks?

And lost nothing because of the fsa protection which guarantees £50k?

TheVoice · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:56

Gaverick said:

Haha yeah, I thought that too. Wonder how long it is until he puts it into a wall.

Sawell · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:56

Woody__ said:
£5! Even more shocking. It's despicable, frankly.

Assuming your post is brimming with sarcasm, not all of us are uneducated as to the value of a pound, or how far it can go. I guess some people have it easy, but you shouldn’t really disregard something just because you don’t understand it.

fendi · 31 Dec 2008 at 14:59

You got to be in it to win it. No such thing as luck.

Gaverick · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:02

£5 could get you 3 whole pizza's, 10 chicken kievs or 75 fish fingers, the joy of being a student

crunchee · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:02

What do they call the lottery again? somewhere along the lines of fools tax or is it idiots tax?

THMRK · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:03

Sawell said:
Assuming your post is brimming with sarcasm, not all of us are uneducated as to the value of a pound, or how far it can go. I guess some people have it easy, but you shouldn’t really disregard something just because you don’t understand it.

In all honesty, I don't see the big fuss. People are frivolous with money and in situations of desperation, sometimes you might not necessarily be thinking about what's right to do with that last few quid you have in your pocket.

Stuff happens, she' got lucky. Many others have done the same and you don't see headlines saying "Mum Who Couldn't Afford Christmas Spends £5 on Scratch Card and Loses. Christmas is Canceled and Santa's Dead, Read more on page 11" do you?

Sawell · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:04

Woody__ said:
In all honesty, I don't see the big fuss. People are frivolous with money and in situations of desperation, sometimes you might not necessarily be thinking about what's right to do with that last few quid you have in your pocket.

Stuff happens, she' got lucky. Many others have done the same and you don't see headlines saying "Mum Who Couldn't Afford Christmas Spends £5 on Scratch Card and Loses. Christmas is Canceled and Santa's Dead, Read more on page 11" do you?

That would make for quite interesting reading!

dowie · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:07

Mum probably couldn't afford Christmas gifts because she wastes money on this sort of rubbish in the first place. These sort of stories just encourage other ****** to gamble on scratch cards. The Park Christmas savings thing being advertised at the moment is a good example of this, ****** can't trust themselves with their own cash so they have to use a special savings scheme that won't let them get at it till Christmas. I'd bet that if the average ***** family added up the amount of money spent on beers, cigarettes, scratch cards and the Sky dish on the side of their council flat they'd actually have a fairly modest amount of cash saved each year.

THMRK · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:09

dowie said:
Mum probably couldn't afford Christmas gifts because she wastes money on this sort of rubbish in the first place. These sort of stories just encourage other ****** to gamble on scratch cards. The Park Christmas savings thing being advertised at the moment is a good example of this, ****** can't trust themselves with their own cash so they have to use a special savings scheme that won't let them get at it till Christmas. I'd bet that if the average ***** family added up the amount of money spent on beers, cigarettes, scratch cards and the Sky dish on the side of their council flat they'd actually have a fairly modest amount of cash saved each year.

Bold claim. Did you read the same article as the rest of us?

Nice work Captain Presumptuous. I can only hope that all of those on a chip shop workers wage are as wise with money as you are.

"andy" · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:11

reminds me of that story about the kid and the chocolate factory

Sawell · 31 Dec 2008 at 15:12

She should have bought some Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound with that £5. There's a gift for all the family, and she wouldn't have had to run to the papers with the story.