General Chat

Just seen this in a report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine :-S

"The introduction of the national lottery was associated with an increase in mean household gambling expenditure from £1.45 to £3.81 per week, and an increase in the proportion of households gambling more than 10% of total income four-fold from 0.4% to 1.7%. Among households with income of less than £200 pw, the proportion gambling more than 10% of their income increased from 0.6% to 3.2%."

Also noticed that average houshold expenditure on "fun and leisure" which includes TV, cinema, football and gambling is now over £63 per week. And I know an ordinary family who have 4 football season tickets, full sky package, frequently visit cinema as a family and buy several lottery tickets and many scratch cards.

And the trend seems upwards in these austere times, so it may be that Camelot have done their homework well ;-)

Gambling is expensive, and I doubt it will have a big effect on Lottery. You cannot pay £1 for most betting (try giving bookie £1) and families who enjoy a gamble usually spend quite a few pounds per week.

If people can afford to lose their stake, I have no problem with it. But when you see people going without just so they can achieve their "dream", it seems wrong

I just checked the Euromillions result. I won £5.80 last night :-) I won £7.70 last week and £8.80 the week before :-D

I do the euromillions. That cost £2. The jackpot often reaches £100,000,000; as appossed to the £4M typical of the National Lottery ;-)

We will still do our one line. I think it will be people who buy more than one line that will decrease theirs.

Well we both do wed and sat £9 in all will be dropping the wed ones and one line on the sat lotto so will do 4 lines and one thunderball. So still £9 in total
can't afford to speculate £16 per week .

We both only increased our lotto lines as we did new ones cos we forgot our tickets and then didn't want to drop them in case they came up

On a weekly basis a little flutter doesn't look too bad but when you calculate it on a monthly basis it looks good money being thrown away.

We haven't had any big wins anyway

Bet others will cut down too

The price of a ticket on the National Lottery from today is now £2 :-( and there are reports that the price hike will cut ticket sales by 50%.

National Lottery ticket sales are likely to plunge as this week’s price rise drives players away in their droves, experts warned yesterday.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/434439/National-Lottery-price-hike-will-cut-ticket-sales-by-50

If you play the National Lottery how will this affect you ?