PREMIUM BONDS - OCTOBER ONWARDS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

https://www.nsandi.com/files/asset/xlsx/prize-october-2023.xlsx

October over £1000 winners

app will show smaller wins tonight midnight

Waiting for tomorrow …
Ive just invested quite a chunk so am watching for the December draw for that. Bonds have to be invested for a full month to be eligible for the next month’s draw. I invested in October and the first draw they’ll go into is Dec. That would make a great Christmas.

Although now I’ve looked again and they say this: We update our prize checker on the day after the first working day of each month.

I have £14 - yes - in PBs that my mother bought me between 1957-1959. I won £250 in 1965 and £50 in 1975, nothing since.

I’m 67 and with a little left from my pension lump sum after clearing credit cards, I might put £1000 or so into PBs. In awe of people with £50k invested, I could possibly do £5k, but I’m so scared of needing the money to replace my car or the boiler. How easy is it to get the money back?

Would I need to buy say £1000 (or £3000 or £5000) in one go in a “block” or buy multiple lots of say £500?

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful with their bonds!

@nettie434 I know the logic is all bonds are equal and that probably people have £50,000 made up of 10 x £5,000 or whatever but I never see many £100 blocks on the list. I'm going to do it as an experiment and save my monthly £100 to invest once it reaches £1000.

I’ve still got Apple bobbing boy.

Will be very disappointed if this means I haven’t won 😢

@YourWinter really easy to get it back out if you need it but it isn't instant

Maybe around 3 working days to get it back

I had no problem pulling some out when I needed it. But yes it took a day or two.

Apple bobbing boy is now sparkler girl.

It only needs one to disprove the theory.

I'm not looking at the high list today - going to wait until I get reveal on the app. Last time I was able to see my £50 win as pending on the blue app before midnight but I'm going to wait until I wake up tomorrow and check the app. I really am. For sure. No early peaking.

Oh yes. Mine has now changed to Sparkler girl.

@YourWinter it's very easy to release the money from Premium Bonds online and it's transferred to your bank account within days, so it's quite a good place for emergency funds. You can make an investment of any amount from £25 to £50,000 and each investment will be a "block". If you then make another investment it'll be a separate block within your account.

Nothing that looks like it might be me or DH in the Big List today.

I am very tempted to withdraw all mine and rebuy the balance in a block. I never see a decent prize winning bond in a block of eg £100 it's always £5000 plus.

Or perhaps hire a maths tutor.

If you bothered to read you would see I have acknowledged the illogical thinking behind this. It's an experiment.

Perhaps hire an English tutor.

Let’s play nicely.

I hope that not directed at me. I'm happy not to start making nasty comments but I'm not happy to just let people be unkind in the interests of 'playing nicely'. That's what women are always expected to do.

Just checked the high value list and I think I might be on there for a win of £5000.
I have an unusual holding (not a round number) and it matches my county and the month I bought them. Need to find my bond numbers to see if it matches…

I’d love it if @OneFrenchEgg won the million after this experiment 😂
If you put the money in a high interest account while you’re faffing it’ll be alreet

Also what was that poster doing questioning @Blondeshavemorefun?! What scandals we are having this month!

Hope everyone is enjoying Schrödinger’s PB day (where we both have and haven’t won a big prize as we are resolutely not checking the list)

@WeAreBorg can you imagine?? We'd all be doing it 😂 I'm going to try, it will satisfy my curiousity. I have an account it can sit in for a few weeks.

@OneFrenchEgg

I would be worried if I did that, I may cash in the one which was destined to win big.

Fingers firmly crossed for you! Is it worth checking your bond numbers to let nosy old me yourself know for certain before tomorrow?

@FiveShelties I think history has told me I will be fine 😂 it's worth risking £25 for the entertainment value.

I will do a little summary!

X blocks equalling ££ , total prizes in 12 months ££
1 block equalling ££ prizes tbc

@OneFrenchEgg good luck. It will be wonderful if it works, might try it myself!😁

Ok

£11,650 over 54 bond blocks since 01.02.22 with the range £25 to £2625 and the majority being £100-500 blocks

I'm going to withdraw £11,600, use £2000 and reinvest £9,600

Or maybe reinvest 2 x £5000 so £10000

Just checked the list and almost had a heart attack at a holding in my county with the same uncommon value as mine...then realised that the dates of purchase are out by 12 months. No £50k for me <sob>

Sadly I do not feature on the big winners list. Hoping for lots of little ones tomorrow. My app is still showing 'One day to go' page.