I am proud of myself

[silcnlayc]

Okay, some may not like me saying this but not physically going to a land based casino is not because of restraint and self control, but more because of guilt from already having deposited and lost so much.

Hate to burst your bubble on how others feel, which you know nothing about....but I applaud vegetagirl2008 and also give her a good pat on her back for thinking, stopping and changing her thoughts on carrying through with not going to a landbased casino. I also agree with her that it is not due to guilt, but a realization that she doesn't NEED to. A big WTG!

I have made reservations the last 3 months for my monthly visit to a landbased casino and I, too, have canceled these visits at the last minute due to a growing boredom with them and pure laziness of not wanting to drive all that way just to lose money...not guilt. But this third cancelation was so much easier than the first, and I have always loved a good sale!...so vegetagirl...keep it up..and you too will see how easy it continues to get to just go shopping or whatever makes you happier instead of the casino...

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[Mavin1]

I must have missed the guidelines that say only kudos allowed, any contrary opinions and expect to get your butt kicked.

[gloria460]

Hate to burst your bubble on how others feel, which you know nothing about....but I applaud vegetagirl2008 and also give her a good pat on her back for thinking, stopping and changing her thoughts on carrying through with not going to a landbased casino. I also agree with her that it is not due to guilt, but a realization that she doesn't NEED to. A big WTG!

I have made reservations the last 3 months for my monthly visit to a landbased casino and I, too, have canceled these visits at the last minute due to a growing boredom with them and pure laziness of not wanting to drive all that way just to lose money...not guilt. But this third cancelation was so much easier than the first, and I have always loved a good sale!...so vegetagirl...keep it up..and you too will see how easy it continues to get to just go shopping or whatever makes you happier instead of the casino...

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You know I used to go to the land based casino quite frequently as the games were a lot easier and I had fun. This has all changed in the last 3 or 4 months. It seems everytime I go they've removed the good slots and replaced them with money suckers. I used to hear bells and whistles going off all the time from different winners..now you hardly hear anything. it's truly ashame because it's a beautiful casino. Every month they send me no deposit bonuses and other comps and I can't muster enough energy to go.

[silcnlayc]

Mavin1:I must have missed the guidelines that say only kudos allowed, any contrary opinions and expect to get your butt kicked.

No butt kicking at all Mavin1, just clearing up you general idea that everyone feels "guilty" when wanting to play and doesn't. As you said, it is a DISCUSSION board and no where have I seen any one being "beat up". Just corrected in their generality.

gloria460:I used to hear bells and whistles going off all the time from different winners..now you hardly hear anything. it's truly ashame because it's a beautiful casino. Every month they send me no deposit bonuses and other comps and I can't muster enough energy to go.

gloria460, I think that might be why the "pull" to play at these casinos has faded so much and it is much easier NOT to go than go. The bells used to go off ALL the time at the casino I used to go to but now, it is very quiet except for a ding or two in hours of sitting there...and I guess I just got too tired also to go see nothing happening...

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[Balky]

I read this post the other day and it made me think. After having had a lucky streak playing slots I had received a considerable amount of cash into my moneybookers e-wallet that day. Vegetagirls post made me think and decide to send that money to my bank account (from which I never make any gambling deposits - no exceptions there), leaving 100 bucks for playing over the weekend. Its pleasant to have kept control. Otherwise those dollars would most probably have been busted on sunday evening in another uncontrolled boredomplay session.

Thanks Vegetagirl!

Balky

[RandomEvent]

I have only really just started out on casino play. I cannot say I'm addicted to this, however I kind of took an addiction to something completely unrelated. I won't say what the addiction was, so skip my post if the rest begins to appear like waffle. All I will say is that it was not sex or drugs related. I am 30 now and through most of my 20s until recently, I suffered with what I considered to be a very unusual addiction.

The great thing about my addiction was that it enabled me to visit other places in Europe and also Brazil. At the same time it pushed my bounderies a little and some people thought I was going to come back from Europe dead.

The downside was the financial aspects. Besides the travelling I was paying a monthy expenditure of £450 (probably a fair average) for what at it's peak I did not consider was an addiction until recently.

I think it was because of my mindset that this addiction played out for about 8 years. It persuaded me that what I was doing was correct and the financial costs were worth it. Along the way I met some great people of whom I still keep in touch with on MSN.

Like I say above, I only came out of the addiction only recently. In the past years my brother, friends etc would joke about it, because they knew I was very serious. Such things never made me stop to think about what I was doing, it was only when I realised gradually that my mind had deluded me, that I should now begin to exit my addiction.

In some ways it was harder than I thought it would be, but in the space of 4 weeks, I sent a message to everyone related to my addiction and told them that I was quitting. The first 2 weeks, I did want to go back. After that it became easier through time.

Since then I have had some big realisations, of which I knew in the past could be true, but chose always to dismiss them. These help me to understand why I can be sure that I would never entertain my former addiction again.

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OP saved herself that day. She overcame her urges and really does deserve a pat on the back IMO.