# Best Way to Spend Casino Winnings

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-spend-casino-winnings/712425>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 11, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-spend-casino-winnings/712425 "2015-02-11T22:52:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-spend-casino-winnings/712425/21 "2015-02-12T03:43:31Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> And a little bit about karma. I sort of believe in it I do.
> 
> But you really can’t help others if you don’t put yourself in a position to really do it. It’s wonderful to give someone your dinner, but if you are both starving the next day, well…

Oh, that is so on-point. You’re completely right about that. And really, I don’t blame a brother for paying his CC debt or his mortgage. That is, after all, the practical thing to do. I just mentioned the giving as a suggestion to the OP.

But -and I hesitate to even say this- if I ever get hit in the ass w/ free money, I will give 1/2 of it away. Sometimes I give all of it. I figure that I didn’t have that $ to begin with; it was a windfall that came to me with no work and little investment of my own. I also know there’s a lot of people in my town/state/planet that don’t have half of what I do, even on their good days and my bad days. So, by me giving away half of it, we both (me and the other guy) win a little bit.

Note, i really don’t want to hijack the thread, I’m just explaining why I said what I said. Carry on….

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