Fact is that if you've never paid attention to how much you spend on your minor wants, chances are high that you can never make proper budgeting for your gambling.
Sometimes, the amount we spend on things that don't add anything to us is always more than the amount we spend on gambling and for gambling expenses, it's even better because there's a chance that you might win and get a return from what you've put into it but for the regular expenses, once it's gone it's gone for good and it's easy to spend so much on small items without even knowing that a lot is already going into such as long as you're not taking record of such expenses.
If you want to practice proper gambling budgeting and see that it works effectively, you first have to start from personal budgeting and then you can easily implement it in your gambling.
What's your take on this?
Well, my take on this is that you may be right, but I don't think there people out there in their right senses who will be spending money on things they do not want or need, and please understand that needs and wants are two different things, what you want may not actually be what you need, and sometimes, what you need at a particular time may likely not be what you want.
So in every spending, we are spending on either of this two and as such, I will say that the person is still spending on him or herself which is the primary reason why hustle hard to make money anyway.
Gambling falls under personal want and if a person doesn't want to gamble, thats his of her decision and that should be respected, in as much as there is the possibility of winning from gambling, there is also the possibility of losing money as well and the chances of losing money is even higher than the chances of winning, so I honestly value the money I spend on myself much more than that I spend on gambling.