When I was a teenager my parents entrusted me with buying their weekly lotto ticket numbers. I always kept the money and spent it on cigarettes, beer etc. Every Saturday night my parents watched the lotto hoping their numbers would come up and I watched it praying they wouldn't!
@fesshole considering how unlikely the odds are, your family probably came out ahead, beer and cigs are a better use of money than lotteries, probably bring more happiness than losing every week forever