thousands of dollars...GONE!

-Billy Gnosis

I hope this is all for an entire year. Anything less and I’d call it an addiction

that's kinda sad, he might have a gambling addiction

Must be Tony Governale

Probably keeps them to deduct on taxes

That’s sad. So much money wasted.

Go get a refund, duh!

You should see my mom's, ugh.

All I see are tax write offs

this is probably a daily thing, i used to have a millionaire client that was confined to a wheelchair and she just spent all day scratching tickets

If your dad is a professional gambler (say, like, a pro poker player), then this stack is something he can use to offset his winnings on his taxes.

Or he could have a gambling addiction.

More people should do this.

Where’s the winners pile?

Sorry son, we can’t afford to send you to college.

If that's a stack over a month, sure. If it's over some years, maybe just having fun.

It's probably for the calendar year. Because if you win, you can deduct your lotto losses against the winning for that year.

He could have 5x that if he invested in stocks instead

Lottery is a tax on the poor and/or stupid. Chasing an infinitesimally small chance of a win. Lots of stuff in life would be awesome if you won or achieved, doesn’t mean you burn money for it.

And this is why kids, you cannot go to college …

Nice to know that!

Can confirm!

But he did hit that 1 $300 winner and those few $50 ones right?!

Actually kind of smart to keep these around in case he does win big.

Well it depends. Chasing the jackpot on ticket drawings is a infinitesimally small chance of winning. And honestly spending a couple bucks when the jackpot is super high allows for a fun daydream, and isn't very harmful. Provided you keep it to just a few bucks which I know not everyone does.

What makes scratchers much more insidious is you DO have a good chance of winning, at least too FEEL like you do. If you buy 10 scratches you'll probably come out "ahead" on a few of them, but much like casino gambling over a large aggregation "The house always wins"

Small pile and low ticket prices. Unless he has no job then there is a problem.

My father had the same pile. Not scratch offs, though. He plays the state lottery where he lives. $5 two times a week, same five sets of numbers for probably 30 years. About 7 years ago he calls me late night. I thought he was dying when I saw his name come up because he never calls. I live several states away, and we mostly communicated via email. Long story short, he finally won the big one. I thought how big could a state lottery be with mega millions and powerball dominating most of the ticket purchases. I thought he maybe hit $100k. Boy was I way off. Multiple millions. Most surreal moment of our lives. He still plays twice a week.