PREMIUM BOND THREAD

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Thought better start new one as last one almost full

Let’s hope we win big November for Christmas

@mogkat

I got bought £50 worth of bonds when I was born in 1985 and have never won a single penny

I keep thinking about buying £50 for my son in PB rather than more toys as he has some Christmas money but I wonder if it's worth it?
His junior savings account interest rate is pretty much zilch!

You should look into a junior stocks and shares ISA?

@Eaumyword

So excited for tomorrow! We're all out of the house though so what to do..?! Hoping for a phone call

They haven’t been visiting homes since the start of Covid - it’s a phone call!

Time to start picking up on those withheld numbers…

Got it covered-DH ended up wfh today, me out but carefully monitoring phone activity!
Strangely enough, nothing yet....

Surely you still win the prize even if you happen to be unavailable when they try to contact you? You’d just find out a bit later!

A man knocked on my door today and I was thinking "is this... it! Is this the day I become a millionaire!?"

Turned out it was some random bloke asking if id sell him my car for scrap metal . Thanks...

I feel this is a metaphor for my life, of sorts.

Haha!
I've been twitchy all day - got a call from a random number but they just wanted to sell me solar panels and some bloke walked up our drive but was just delivering the village magazine! 🙄

Hmm I guess I haven't won the million then. I had read they sometimes come in the evenings when it was in person but if they are phoning instead I assume it would have been during working hours.

Let’s start hoping for £100k tomorrow. Or £5k would be fine too Ernie.

Yes, WhatsWrong, I think I'm aiming for the £100k this month now as well.

I didn’t realise they phone now! Must start answering (albeit I’ve had zero missed calls today). Had already starting picking out my new house

@ithinkimdone

A man knocked on my door today and I was thinking "is this... it! Is this the day I become a millionaire!?"

Turned out it was some random bloke asking if id sell him my car for scrap metal . Thanks...

I feel this is a metaphor for my life, of sorts.

🤣

I haven't had any visits or phone calls 😢. I'm always at risk of staying up until midnight when the high value winners are released.

I end up pinging awake at 3am both results days!

You know like you check the high value winners list and it says date the bond is held from? How do you all know that date? I top mine up regularly rather than only depositing once, so wouldn’t know what date a winning bond was bought?

@VeganCow

You know like you check the high value winners list and it says date the bond is held from? How do you all know that date? I top mine up regularly rather than only depositing once, so wouldn’t know what date a winning bond was bought?

It’s a problem. Maybe withdraw £25 or £75 so you have a more unique amount?

Ah, well. Maybe next month. Time to close all the Rightmove tabs and switch to fantasies of how I'd spend £100,000.

That's a point, I do have a unique amount atm after my £25 winnings last month was reinvested

@VeganCow

You know like you check the high value winners list and it says date the bond is held from? How do you all know that date? I top mine up regularly rather than only depositing once, so wouldn’t know what date a winning bond was bought?

You can see the purchase dates for each block of bonds on your NS&I account, but it's not something you have to remember. I just look at the area and the total holding to see if there's a match. Then if there's the vaguest chance I might have bought, for example, £100 of bonds in July 2019, I'll sign into my account and look at the numbers of the bonds I hold. Then you can see if the winning bond number matches one of yours. Before I was on full holdings I also used to do the thing of keeping my balance at a random number (e.g. £15,473) so it would be easy to identify myself/discount others.

Speaking of the high value winners list, it's out now. Nothing for me this month Somebody with a £50 holding has won £10,000 which is quite impressive.

Hoping for a small win tomorrow 🤞

Back to hoping for a small win tomorrow and back into work today as usual! 🙄

Not a single big win for my county this month

Only one overseas this month and sadly it is not me. High hopes for tomorrow.

Nothing for me today. Fingers crossed for something tomorrow.

One of the millionaires came from my city. It's not me sadly.

Someone has won £100k from a £3k holding and another won £25k from a £300 bond they bought in 2003. I wonder if that's the only time they've won and they get all that, which is amazing.

I found a penny while out walking over the weekend and thought that my time had come for the big win.

Obviously my PBs haven't come up, except I'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out about the smaller prizes, but yesterday, while I was out walking, I did find a nearly new, perfect condition, version of an item that I had been trying to buy second hand for some time, dumped as part of a pile of rubbish on waste ground and I have no shame to say that I took it.

So that's something for free that would have cost about £50 brand new, pretty pleased about that.

No big win for me...

No big win for me

But lots of smaller ones winning so gives me hope

And £20k won a million and £50 think was £10k