Re: Sometimes enough is enough

This is exactly what I do with gambling- I go out with a set amount of money and nothing else, so I can't possibly spend too much. I have good self-control besides that, and I've never gambled more than I could ever afford to lose.

The subreddits Fatanut listed are good, and I've personally browsed the latter one (r/getdisciplined), but if you're having a hard time reading the articles, there is an option to switch to old Reddit in the top right. Nobody I know likes the new interface as it's slightly more difficult to skim and read, and it's also slightly more demanding on your CPU than the old interface.

Too few people actually do this, they tend to go out with the credit card and end up spending a lot more than they can afford to. Anybody who thinks they might have a problem with gambling should definitely leave the card at home.

This is called gambling in a limit. When you take some money with yourself when you go to casino and think that this certain amount is for gambling and you have no more money for gambling and also decide that this time you will back to home then you will never go in debts and will enjoy your time with your friends and family. One should never think that he can make money in gambling.

Is that supposed to be a good thing? At the end of the day, you still lost your money by gambling and you can never take that away. You could have used that money for something else, maybe for your family. Imagine if you've bought pizza with that money instead, your family could have had a better night and you would have had way more fun. People in here want to hype up the idea of having fun in gambling when they could have been hyping up the idea of having fun with minimal cost.

I just can never see gambling as something that you can do and feel great about it. There's just always this feeling that you simply burned your money and didn't have fun at all. You could have done something like going to the gym, hiring a personal coach, and sweating a lot. Your brain releases dopamine during exercise as well. You also have spent lesser money and you'd even achieve a better body.