Any kind of gambling.
stocks /trade should count too. funny how some of the people in wsb are degens, the most recent post i saw someone useing thier 401k for stocks.
What’s a 401k?
a retirement account in the usa, in lieu of pensions.
Ok, thx 👍
So it’s basically the same thing as pensions, but you have access to it your whole life?
I’ve been to Vegas once. I played 4 quarters in slots and on my last one, I won $1.25.
I stopped while I was ahead.
Only gamabled for one night.
Told my self "$50 for a couple hours of entertainment? That’s fair if you ONLY spend that much. (Here its ~$18 for a cinema ticket. So ~$30 for a movie night for 1)
Didn’t expect to win. Just treat it as a cash for entertainemt transaction, and I can walk away guilt free.
Think (well, HOPE) I walked away with $200 in the negative. 1 small $10 win leads to one more round, leads to oops, I spent to much. (What I remember, that was only the money on chips, not the drinks.) Never again
Forgot to add. Spent the next 2 nights at the hotel mad at myself. " if I had $200 now, I could buy X, Y or Z, not throw it away on that 2 moments of “yes, that’s my card”
0, gambling doesn’t fire off any feel-good chemicals for me, so I don’t do it
I tried slot machines in Vegas. Even themed ones for properties like Back to the Future were the single most boring experience I’ve ever had.
You’d think they would see mobile games and come up with a fun way to lose money, but they are just a chore.
I cannot conceive how people sit at those things. At least poker is a fun game. Never played it for money though.
Does stock market count?
I should check my old steam cs:go opening cases for birthday back in school.
I bet that I could ride a bike (MC), and lost my ability to walk properly.
Does that count? I don’t like to gamble unless my life is somehow in the pot. Money is boring.
Edit: I see that the title literally says money… so I guess the hospital bills.
There’s a good reason ER docs call them “donorcycles” 😬
$200.
~£50,000 overnight fucking around with meme stocks. Good times. 2021 was a wild year.
💎🙌🚀🌚
OMG! And that is pounds? Worth more that US dollars. I think you won the question. Well, lost, technically.
Yes pounds sterling, gambled on the finest American clinical-stage biopharma for that sweet sweet volatility.
Damn son!
about $20 at those video poker machines in small bars. won $5 once
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$40.
In highschool I bought $20 in raffle tickets and won a $120 mini fridge that I used throughout college. I would get happy feelings when looking at that fridge for years.
Only positive feelings I ever got from gambling.
I spent 2 years doing casino revenue audits. The amount of money the high rollers would loose in one night was disgusting, we are talking 7 figures.
What blows my mind the most is how the math works out in the long run. A $1 slot machine could have a $100,000 prize but you would have to play it 200,000 time to hit the jack pot. You don’t play against the house, you just give them your money.
Does my 401k count?
Why, how much did you lose with it? How did you do it?
Was mainly making a cynical joke. That said, my 401k probably does represent the largest gain or loss I’ve had in a week or month; probably even a day, given how wildly the markets can sometimes fluctuate.
Sure, but daily changes in account value are not money lost. Sry for being too serious but there’s something about characterizing responsible financial planning as gambling that annoys me.
