Some people say that to bet on sports is a waste of money, but realistically, with only two outcomes in a game, you have a 50-50 shot to win. When you spend your money and buy some useless product, that money is gone forever and all you have to show for it was the fleeting moment of joy you had until the luster wore off the trinket. But if you bet on sports and just break even, that’s 50% more money that you would have had since you aren’t actually spending the money. 

On that note, here’s 10 ways to trims your daily budget to get funds away from mindless spending and redirect it into sports betting:

10. Stop Buying Organic Food

Organic food might be the biggest scam in food industry history. On the other hand, maybe it’s not. The point is: who really knows? There have been plenty of cases recently about companies putting “organic” labels on non-organic food or food inspectors determining that organic farms are as clean as grime. If that’s the case, I’m not pumping extra money into food that is probably the same quality as the regular stuff. Quit the organic foods and do some organic sports betting instead. 

9. Trim Your Child’s Schooling Fund 

Nowadays, kids are coddled way too much. They are wearing Burberry diapers and cleaning their face with Kenneth Cole baby wipes, and in the grand scheme of things, brand names aren’t exactly as high up on the list of priorities for a toddler as mother’s milk. I’m not saying kids should be sewing soccer balls in poorly lit sweatshops, but it wouldn’t hurt if they fended for themselves once in a while. So instead of handing down a full scholarship to an ungrateful punk who is planning to attend the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), take a little piece of the pie for yourself and have some fun with it.

8. Get A Second Mortgage

I always hear people talk about the asset value in their homes, so why not put it to work for you? If your bank allows you to take out a second mortgage – and granted, in the current state of real estate they may not – go directly to the casino. Second mortgages are like that great Chance card in Monopoly: go directly to Go and collect your money. And after you collect, you spend it.

7. Slow Down On The Caffeine 

Coffee totally went from being a casual warm-me-up type drink to being a full-blown part of our culture. Now you can pick up girls at coffee shops, they are secretive places to go if Jason Bourne needs to arrange a clandestine meeting, and they are a spot to study, surf or smoke. But the price has also shot up from a buck to as much as $4.99 if you are one of those metrosexuals that likes his Soy Chai Latte in a Vente Grande size. At $5 a day, multiplied by 365 days a year, some people spend as much as $1800 on the brown ground mixed with hot water. Ease off the caffeine and get hooked on something much more entertaining: sports betting.

6. Buy No-Name Alcohol

So what if Young Jeezy sips Belvedere, or Dem Franchize Boys get slizzard on Grey Goose, or Diddy and Busta like their Courvoisier, it doesn’t mean that those brands of alcohol are any better. Save by purchasing the cheaper brands of liquor, which is money that can go directly into your pocket and then directly into gambling. Seriously, can you really taste the smoothness of Grey Goose when it’s mixed with orange juice or Red Bull? If you can, then you’re probably one of the guys who kept lining up for the Pepsi-Coke taste tests back in the day and answering correctly 50% of the time.

5. Gamble With Money You Don’t Have

Some people say we don’t do enough with the money that we do have but sometimes we should look at the money that we don’t have. Loans, credit cards and gift cards are the perfect way to get your hands on some money that you don’t currently have to your name. Then, when you make some bucks off the betting, pay it back and you are good to go.

4. Illegally Download Stuff Instead of Paying For It

Albums and movies cost so damn much these days, which is ridiculous considering how readily available they are on the internet. Downloading music “illegally” is a simple way to cut costs. Instead of paying 99 cents per song or even $15 for Britney Spears’ terrible collection of crooning, you can pirate all that stuff for free and redirect all of those funds into betting. And for movies – or TV shows – they can easily be streamed online via everyone’s best friend, Mr. Internet.

3. Steal

One way to increase your own wealth is to decrease someone else’s. (See: Ocean’s Eleven.) You can do that by running a business or you can also achieve that goal by stealing. “Running a business” or having a “full-time job” does increase your income but that’s taxable income. Those occupations may be more “professional” but the good thing about stealing money is that it is not taxable income. (I’ll leave the methods of theft to you, though.) Everyone knows that stolen food tastes better, which inherently makes gambling with stolen money feel better than betting with earned money.

2. You Don’t Need That Many Pairs of Shoes

Shoes have gotten out of hand. Regardless of your religious beliefs, we were all walking around the desert in sandals just a few years ago. And by a few years, I mean about 1000. Barefoot used to be en vogue but now all of the sudden IKEA doesn’t sell shoe racks tall enough to house some collections. You need a pair of runners, winter boots, sandals and dress shoes and you’re good to go. If you have more than three pairs of hooker boots, you probably have a great sex life, but realistically, you don’t need separate shades of black boots. Stop matching shoe colors to your dress shirts, underwear or accessories and save some of that money for things that matter more, like sports betting.

1. Pawn Things

Do you have that old box of dusty jewelry that some scumbag salesmen in a “get cash for your unwanted jewelry” late-night infomercial reminds you of? Sell it. We’ve all got things lying around the house that are useless to us but might be valuable to someone else. As they say: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. You could sell your stuff on craigslist and deal with the infinite people who e-mail with interest about your product then never get back to you, or you could sell on Ebay and get dinged on fees left, right, center, north and south, or you could just be old fashioned and go to the local pawn shop to get instant cash. I like instant cash. So take your used Al Jolson records, pawn them off for cash and get to betting.