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how to have a cheap way to be consistently happy

 talk cock idea....

Just buy $1 TOTO once or twice a week. This means it will cost you between $4 to $8 per month. This buys you happiness. The chance of winning anything is extremely low, but its non zero too, so got tiny micro nano chance lah!

But my point of it being a cheap way to keep you happy isn't the microscopic probability of hitting jackpot. 

Each time you buy $1 TOTO, you will carry hope of hitting jackpot, which is at least $1M. You will want to be the sole winner of the top prize right?

Say, you buy every draw, which is Monday and Thursday. This means, you carry this happy hope almost all the time, except when the results are announced on Monday night and Thursday nights. But then you can immediate bring back this joy by buying again, which is just a click on your phone app, and its just $1 to pay to be in this happy state for next 3-4 days!

Why?

With an open $1 ticket, you carry happy thoughts of winning. And in between life's challenges (work, health, relationships etc), these thoughts can carry you. You will fantasise about what your life will be with the $1M or more windfall, you will do silly plans, or concrete pragmatic ones like using it to help clear your loans, bring family to a nice vacation, or save and invest for retirement etc etc. You will never be unhappy when doing these thoughts, and TBH, I think such thoughts will help relieve some stress. It's like an escape valve, made very remotely real by the $1 open ticket you have on hand (or on your pools account). 

Now, I am not advocating gambling, where you end up putting in higher and higher stakes into TOTO or 4D or other stupid odds-against-you games. If you go that way, that's on you, not me.

I am just saying this is a cheap way to keep the mood good or at least negate bad things you have in life. 

If you see a silly uncle walking in park with a silly idiotic grin on his face, you know he has $1 open TOTO ticket. LOL  

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