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Full Holding £50k
Jan - £75
Feb - £200
YTD - £275
2024 - £2,725 Yield 5.45%
Months without a blank - 141 -
Prizes since I bought up to a full holdingDec 24 - 1x £25Jan 25 - 2x £50Feb 25 - 1x £500
Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 20232 -
Had £50k in for 4 draws now. Won £25, £75, £0 and this month £25 again. Withdrew my total holding of £40k a few years ago now after a 6 month totally dry run. Feel much the same this time, will be filling ISAs for my husband and I come April. Just have to accept I’m not particularly lucky and destined to get below average returns from PBs I guessDownshifted
September GC £251.21/£250 October £248.82/£250 January £159.53/£2000 -
£325 on FH. A nice surprise after some pretty lacklustre months!3
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I still have the £1 bond my parents gave me when I was born in 1958!ShinyStarlight1 said:
They are very likely to be around! Often grandparents would buy a premium bond for their new grandchild, which would make these winners in their 60s.Newbie_John said:
Not really, these people are likely not longer around - more or less they were 30 years old in 1960, so probably would be around 90 now - and these bonds have high chances of being abandoned/forgotten.IanManc said:Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it.
And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.
So sadly they just take prizes away from us 😅3 -
Nowt on FH. Only 28 days to go.1
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£225 on near-FH. (No spreadsheet, just a plain text file.)
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£75 this month, on full holding: £25 + £50.
Both prizes from a £4,000 batch bought in 2020.
That batch of £4,000 bonds has now won £575/14 prizes.
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1 x £100 on a 23.5k holding.Feb 2025 - £100Jan 2025 - £25Dec 2024 - £50Nov 2024 - £50Oct 2024 - £500Sep 2024 - £100Aug 2024 - £50No spreadsheet or text file. The winning months in the previous 7 months (including current month) as shown in the app.0
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£300 this month on £43k holding. Best for a little while.0
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