Down Another $1500
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (100432)
United States
June 7, 2025 7:50am CST
Well, it's not official just yet. My wife will embark on her and her cousin's 33rd annual gambling outing, this year going to Oak Grove, Kentucky to lay down some money and make Kentucky and the Oak Grove casino a little richer.
I am giving her $1500 for gambling and spending to take with her, and hopefully this year will be the year she hits a major jackpot and brings home more than she left with.
We'll see. In the 20 years I've been around that they've been doing these trips she hasn't won a major jackpot yet. As I have been told she hadn't won one in the 13 years prior either. But hey, no one ever said anyone ever got rich gambling, right?
So, as it stands right now we're down another $1500 until she comes home and we figure out what she has left.
Luckily, she usually does come back with something, so it's not ever a total loss. But we'll see how this year goes.
She leaves tomorrow.
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@2ndchances24 (10485)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
7 Jun
you could give me 1500$ & I wouldn't lose it on gambling that's for sure.
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@porwest (100432)
• United States
8 Jun
If it's any consolation, it's not necessarily money "out of pocket." The stock market is paying for it. To be honest, I'd rather the money be used on something else, but it's her little enjoyment and it would be wrong of me to deprive her of it.
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@2ndchances24 (10485)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
2h
@porwest My husband is like it's your $ you do what you want with it
when I 1st started my ss & I DID, I saved & saved & saved till I crashed
& when I got back on my feet I had enough to get the cabin redone.


@moffittjc (124629)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Jun
What if she's been taking all that money you give her (plus her own), and over the last 33 years she's been secretly investing it and not gambling with it at all? Would you be mad or happy for her? lol
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@LindaOHio (190598)
• United States
7 Jun
I don't care for gambling anymore. I don't like losing $$.
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