Save Your Pennies To Gamble With

You could call it an utter distortion of the money saving process. But I have my reasoning.

Last night, my fiance and I took all of the spare change we could find to one of those Coinstar machines in the grocery store. While I’m no big fan the whole eight and nine-tenths processing fee, it had to be dealt with since the bank we wanted to go to had already closed its lobby after work.

Anyway, the primary reason I was cashing in my coins was for gambling money on my trip this weekend to Las Vegas. Yes, I know, my chances are one in several million of bringing home anything substantial. But I mean, I’m already going to be out there… I may as well take my chances with Lady Luck.

The point is this: if I win a progressive jackpot of 300 grand, which I plan on playing for, then it will have happened because of spare change. What can be better than that? To sit on the porch of my new house with my girl, feet up, sipping an ice cold lager— and to know that I have this house because I saved up my pennies.

Sure, it’s a little bit extreme to smoke on such a pipe dream… but I always say, if you plan on living well, then you have to find every way possible. At least legally. However, that way of life is not going to come to me while I’m sitting here in this cubicle wasting away in obscurity. So place your bet, people.