For Just $7, You Can Pretend to Be a Billionaire 💸🎰

The combined jackpots for Powerball and Mega Millions have now climbed to over $1.1 BILLION.

• Powerball (Monday): $476 million

• Mega Millions (Tuesday): $637 million

The grand total to buy one ticket for each drawing? Just $7.

For the price of a fancy coffee, you can spend the next couple of days deciding whether your first purchase is a beach house, a sports car, or finally replacing that thing you’ve been saying you’ll replace for years.

The odds? Let’s just say they’re “character building.”

But if one of those tickets turns out to be the winner, remember who reminded you. A generous “thank you” contribution would be greatly appreciated by the Department of Niel’s Lottery Awareness Program.

And if you’re interested in putting together a lottery pool, let me know. We can increase our odds from “almost impossible” to… well… “slightly less almost impossible.”

Good luck, everyone!

I Didn’t Win… And Neither Did You (Probably) 🎰💸

Well… I didn’t win the Mega Millions.

And I’m pretty sure you didn’t either.

How do I know? Because the jackpot went up, which means nobody hit the big one. Congratulations to all of us for continuing our streak of not becoming instant billionaires.

The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday.

But don’t worry! We have another opportunity to make questionable financial decisions tonight with Powerball. Tickets are just $2 each (before they tempt you with Power Play, Power-Up, Mega-Super-Ultra-Deluxe-Whatever-They-Call-It).

As a reminder, if you head out to buy a ticket because of this blog post, a friendly gratuity for the person who reminded you—namely me—is highly recommended… by me.

I don’t make the rules. Actually, I just did.

Better yet… anyone interested in joining a lottery pool? Reach out! If we’re all going to lose, we might as well lose together. And if we win? I’ll happily volunteer to hold the giant check for the photo.

Good luck tonight!

Someone has to win. It might as well be one of us.