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  • Kim_13
    Kim_13 Posts: 4,221 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    £125 on FH, 2.75% 12 month rolling and 4.2% for 2026 so can't complain at the present time. I'd like a single prize bigger than £100 just once though! Got my first £100s in 2016 on a £8,500 holding.

    Historically have a pattern of blanks in April so with the rate cut that would increase those chances.

  • arthurdick
    arthurdick Posts: 3,747 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper

    £0 on £7400 holding, April & May have always been my luckiest months(jinxed that now) Adding up the total of the last 3 April's and May's it comes to £2475, so, there you go, that's it now, run finished.

    Corduroy pillows are making headlines! Back home in London now after 27years wait! Duvet know it's Christmas, not original, it's a cover.
  • Newbie_John
    Newbie_John Posts: 1,509 Forumite
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    Ive doubled in Dec to go FH this year, £0 in Feb, £0 today 😅

    Thats it for me - ISA time.

  • Earthwatcher
    Earthwatcher Posts: 2 Newbie
    Seventh Anniversary First Post Combo Breaker

    My parents rewarded me with a £1 premium bond for passing for grammar school. That was 60 years ago. That's been my holding ever since. I lost it once and it took many exchanges of correspondence for Ernie to find it. Anyway it was found and I've lost it again since then, my wife might know where it is. I don't think you can buy them in single pounds anymore so I hold it now kind of symbolically, don't ask me why. It's never won me anything and I doubt it ever will. Anyway, thank you mum and dad, and I'm not saying that sarcastically. They didn't have much to go on and I appreciated the gesture, it serves as a reminder of those days. I wonder if anyone here has a single £1 premium bond and whether it's ever won them anything. I hope so.

  • GalacticaActual
    GalacticaActual Posts: 379 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 100 Posts Newshound! Photogenic

    Yes, a £1 bond from 1970 but it’s not won anything yet.

    Also a £5 bond from 1978. Nothing from that either.

    Held those £6 of bonds until the mid 1990s then bought £500 of bonds in November 1995, from which I won £1,000 6 months later.

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