@someonex3920, interestingly enough another article mentioned that.  It would take roughly 28 years to fill out all those tickets. That said, these "lottery is a bad investment" articles are a little obvious.  The lottery isn't an investment, it's a game.  If you're dumping copious amounts of money into the lottery,...more

I feel like a big part of it has to do with who you're around most often, as well as where you live.  If you make 150k a year, but are constantly around people who make twice that, I doubt you'd feel "rich." It's all relative.