Down Another $1500
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
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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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jun 25
I don't care for gambling anymore. I don't like losing $$.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
11 Jun
@porwest When we went to the casino in Erie, I wasn't winning ANYTHING; so I quit and just watched my husband play.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
11 Jun
@LindaOHio I do have a limit. It all depends on if they let me play. I took $100 for myself and when they got me for $45 with virtually no "play," I said screw it and stopped.
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
7 Jun 25
you could give me 1500$ & I wouldn't lose it on gambling that's for sure.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
8 Jun 25
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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@porwest (112717)
• United States
10 Jun
@2ndchances24 It definitely makes life a little easier when you have money when you want it or need it.
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
10 Jun
@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.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Jun 25
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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@porwest (112717)
• United States
11 Jun
Now I'd be really curious to know what she may have invested in. Hmm, maybe it was Amazon back in the day when I was complaining it was just a book store? How many billions might we be sitting on I am not even aware of?
As for whether I'd be mad? Only if it continued to be a secret. And THEN I'd want to know how she hid the money so well. I have a few "things" I do to hide certain money and assets from the IRS (all legal), but if she was hiding this kind of money?
I'd be pissed and amazed all at the same time. lol
