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.
I agree with this, by recording our expenses we will know which ones are draining our money too much so we can start to manage our expenses better.
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.
This is the strangest thought I have ever read. I mean, budgeting is about managing your finances well, not about having more money to gamble. While you have a chance of winning in gambling, losing seems more certain, especially if you're playing games based on luck. It's better to invest or use more of your money for other useful things, rather than adding it to gambling.