Premium Bond Winner ?

MrsArtsandCrafts

Bought a 50k holding a year ago, been pleasantly surprised at winning £3,500 in the first 12 draws:

July - £150
Aug - £200
Sep - £250
Oct - £300
Nov - £100
Dec - £400
Jan - £575
Feb - 375
Mar - 200
Apr - £250
May - £250
June - £450

Swipe

MrsArtsandCrafts said:

Bought a 50k holding a year ago, been pleasantly surprised at winning £3,500 in the first 12 draws:

July - £150
Aug - £200
Sep - £250
Oct - £300
Nov - £100
Dec - £400
Jan - £575
Feb - 375
Mar - 200
Apr - £250
May - £250
June - £450

Wow, congrats, I wish I had your luck. 3 blanks for me in the last 12 months on 50k and two blanks in a row these last 2 months.

thegreenone

Congrats @MrsArtsandCrafts

We had £100 and £200 on full holding.  If we can do that every month or thereabouts, our holiday fund will be looking healthy.

MrsArtsandCrafts

Swipe said:

MrsArtsandCrafts said:

Bought a 50k holding a year ago, been pleasantly surprised at winning £3,500 in the first 12 draws:

July - £150
Aug - £200
Sep - £250
Oct - £300
Nov - £100
Dec - £400
Jan - £575
Feb - 375
Mar - 200
Apr - £250
May - £250
June - £450

Wow, congrats, I wish I had your luck. 3 blanks for me in the last 12 months on 50k and two blanks in a row these last 2 months.

Thank you, I can see from the posts on here I have been very lucky indeed, more than I had realised. Fingers crossed that your luck changes soon, you're due a win maybe next month will be the 'big one'!

MrsArtsandCrafts

thegreenone said:

Congrats @MrsArtsandCrafts

We had £100 and £200 on full holding.  If we can do that every month or thereabouts, our holiday fund will be looking healthy.

Thank you and congrats to you too, fingers crossed for you on that holiday fund hope it takes you somewhere nice!

Ifts

£175  (1x100 1x50 1x25) on £13.5k holding - £100 in May & in April     

Primrose

Slight deviation of topic but does anybody think these prizes risk becoming taxable if there's a change in regime after the General Election?  One of the benefits of Ernie is that all winnings are tax free.

LeafGreen

Primrose said:

Slight deviation of topic but does anybody think these prizes risk becoming taxable if there's a change in regime after the General Election?  One of the benefits of Ernie is that all winnings are tax free.

Anything is possible I suppose but I'd say unlikely.  One of those things that's not worth spending time thinking about until it is actually happening.  And if some think tank starts talking about it, I would still ignore it.

LeafGreen

Bravepants said:

skitskut said:

Does anyone else hold an uncommon number of bonds e.g. 49991 to make it easier to locate themselves (or not!) in the big winners list each month?

You can save the big winner's list as a Microsoft Excel file and filter for number range. Er..not that I've ever done it of course...oh no...not me...no sir...!!

My wife wrote a nifty app that automatically downloads the big winning numbers, then compares against our bonds so it can tell us to retire without any unnecessary delay!!

Current rolling 6 month return 7.9% thanks to a £1000 prize and quite a few £100s in recent months so been doing quite well of late.

mebu60

grahamgoo said:

Bravepants said:

skitskut said:

Does anyone else hold an uncommon number of bonds e.g. 49991 to make it easier to locate themselves (or not!) in the big winners list each month?

You can save the big winner's list as a Microsoft Excel file and filter for number range. Er..not that I've ever done it of course...oh no...not me...no sir...!!

My wife wrote a nifty app that automatically downloads the big winning numbers, then compares against our bonds so it can tell us to retire without any unnecessary delay!!

I believe NS&I attempt to contact the £1m winners the day before the winning bond numbers are released.

Sadly I can't tell you from personal experience if that is true :-(