PREMIUM BONDS MAY DRAW ONWARDS

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Other one is almost full so a new thread for us to share all our winnings (I hope)

fir the first time I won £50 / usually £25 if I win

and May brought 25 and 50 so £75. Happy days

quite a few have won this month. Always a joyful feeling seeing the dancing lady in the rain kr sunshine

Someone won £5k on a £1 bond from 1961. I bet they'll be surprised! I wonder if it was bought as a new baby gift back then.

If I was to open an account I'm guessing the 1st draw I would be eligible for would be September is that right? Will £8000/£8500 be ok to start with?

Yes @properdoughnut

Yes. So you might as well keep in savings until end of this month to get interest on it. No point putting it in right now.

Thanks

Its only about £7 in interest so not really going to miss it. I'll sign up and get it started in a week or so

I love those big wins from small investments, I hope it's someone who really needs this cash

Hopefully also someone who knows the bond exists and has up to date details recorded with NS&I - sadly many of the small, older bonds people don't realise they have them or have never updated the details on them

I had a look at the big winners list and saw a few where they were just a few pound short of full holdings (like £2 or £8 off 50k) and wondered if they have done it deliberately to see a big win easier 😂

I did get excited that there was a holding very close to mine in the right area - but it definitely wasn't mine

I really hope I have a win this month after 2 with nothing with a £46k holding.
Fingers crossed for us all!

Yes that is frustrating after seeing the interest rates you could be getting o that sort of sum. We are moving soon and I will be using most of it on moving costs but tempted to just get the interest nowadays. And just a bit in PBs. As boring as that is 😂

No big prizes here - most of the ones from my area had big investments quite recently - there was none from a £25-£100 reinvestment for example which is pretty much what all mine are! Mostly the bond value was between £10-30k invested over the past few years. I know it’s all just the same odds per bond but I found this month quite frustrating 😂 not sure how lucky you have to be to invest £30k two months ago and instantly win £25k!

Anyone still got their originals?

Ive got the paper bonds that were bought when I was 1 and 2 but have long since gone as they cash in the earliest bonds

I still have £10 and DH has £5.
I have a separate holding for savings with a different holder number somehow so the £15 bonds are still held by us.
DH's bonds have never won but my £10 won £50 a few years ago which was nice.

Here they are

I checked on the NS & I website earlier - you can request that newer bonds are cashed in rather than older ones if you want to.

I didn't in the end, as I think it takes a couple of days longer.

@InMySpareTime just in case you weren’t aware, please be careful not to exceed the max holding overall, or prizes that exceed it are taken back. I completed a check with them to make sure I had no other bonds when I did have max. Imagine winning the million and then not 😭

@Happiestathome there's no chance of my hitting full holdings (currently on about £5k) unless I win that much. I think my £10 is neither here nor there.

Yes, I have five £1 bonds that were bought for me, one a month for five months, when I was a baby.

@InMySpareTime 🤞🤞🤞
I doubt I’ll ever get there again. It was my mortgage repayment money at the time

Well, I may still have won 1k or less, but I'm not a big winner. Nobody in my county won off that list with anything under 30k in holdings.

Are all your apps working?
Mine just says "sorry, something went wrong"

So apparently one of the £1 million winners is from Staffordshire and bought their holding in March?!!!

Would Agent William come back if I was out the first time???

My app working ok.

My county is always 50k holders winning

Roll on midnight 😄🤞🏻.