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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 3, 2023 14:28:22 GMT
£0 this month just like every month for the last 30 odd years  |
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Post by jonno on Dec 4, 2023 10:53:50 GMT
£0 this month just like every month for the last 30 odd years Have you tried buying some? 
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Post by travolta on Dec 4, 2023 18:34:01 GMT
Me £50.00
1/2 £325
Certainly worth more than 'a poke in the eye with a pointed stick'.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Dec 4, 2023 20:32:43 GMT
£0 this month just like every month for the last 30 odd years Have you tried buying some? Yep got about £200 worth and won nothing , ever! In probably over 40 years and yes I am starting to take it personal.
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Post by jontyab on Dec 4, 2023 22:09:30 GMT
Won £100 on a £500 balance Edit: Not quite as excited having discovered my XIRR is 1.8% |
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Post by bernythedolt on Dec 5, 2023 1:12:24 GMT
Have you tried buying some? Yep got about £200 worth and won nothing , ever! In probably over 40 years and yes I am starting to take it personal. suggests you should win a prize roughly every 9 years (with today's interest rate/ prize structure). With bonds bought 40 years ago, are you certain they hold your latest address, etc?
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Post by aju on Dec 5, 2023 10:36:16 GMT
This calculator suggests you should win a prize roughly every 9 years (with today's interest rate/ prize structure).
<snipped items> Brilliant calculator thanks for the steer, I can get rid of my spreads now. Was considering moving some taxable funds that will release in next few month to more taxable stuff (Trying to keep any tax payments down these days) and will now be moving them into more PB's...
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Post by bernythedolt on Dec 5, 2023 10:45:29 GMT
Brilliant calculator thanks for the steer, I can get rid of my spreads now. Was considering moving some taxable funds that will release in next few month to more taxable stuff (Trying to keep any tax payments down these days) and will now be moving them into more PB's... Glad it helped, but I can't take the credit. Somebody else posted it here several weeks ago and it was good enough to bookmark.
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Post by mostlywrong on Dec 5, 2023 12:32:41 GMT
Have you tried buying some? Yep got about £200 worth and won nothing , ever! In probably over 40 years and yes I am starting to take it personal. As Bernie has pointed out, your details might not be up to date.
If you have a "Holder's Number" you can check to see if you have won, and I have just noticed that they have an "Unclaimed prizes" section towards the bottom of the screen.
If you look through this month's list of big winners, you might spot the prize of £50k that went to the owner of £5 worth of bonds purchased in July 1983.
I am willing to bet that NS&I will have problems finding the lucky winner!
And what a return...
MW
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Post by bernythedolt on Dec 5, 2023 15:19:04 GMT
Yep got about £200 worth and won nothing , ever! In probably over 40 years and yes I am starting to take it personal. As Bernie has pointed out, your details might not be up to date.
If you have a "Holder's Number" you can check to see if you have won, and I have just noticed that they have an "Unclaimed prizes" section towards the bottom of the screen.
If you look through this month's list of big winners, you might spot the prize of £50k that went to the owner of £5 worth of bonds purchased in July 1983.
I am willing to bet that NS&I will have problems finding the lucky winner!
And what a return...
MW
...and somebody won £10k off a £2 bond bought way back in 1956. I love to see this and always imagine some old dear, right up against it, coming into a nice little windfall in their dotage. Good for them. 👍
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Post by mostlywrong on Dec 5, 2023 18:25:43 GMT
As Bernie has pointed out, your details might not be up to date.
If you have a "Holder's Number" you can check to see if you have won, and I have just noticed that they have an "Unclaimed prizes" section towards the bottom of the screen.
If you look through this month's list of big winners, you might spot the prize of £50k that went to the owner of £5 worth of bonds purchased in July 1983.
I am willing to bet that NS&I will have problems finding the lucky winner!
And what a return...
MW
...and somebody won £10k off a £2 bond bought way back in 1956. I love to see this and always imagine some old dear, right up against it, coming into a nice little windfall in their dotage. Good for them. 👍 I have sorted several estates and that is one concern I still have; have I missed a vital piece of information? The original bonds were fairly small pieces of paper and could have been used as a bookmark or just lost in a pile of correspondence.
And I would never know!
MW
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Post by overthehill on Dec 5, 2023 18:53:59 GMT
...and somebody won £10k off a £2 bond bought way back in 1956. I love to see this and always imagine some old dear, right up against it, coming into a nice little windfall in their dotage. Good for them. 👍 I have sorted several estates and that is one concern I still have; have I missed a vital piece of information? The original bonds were fairly small pieces of paper and could have been used as a bookmark or just lost in a pile of correspondence.
And I would never know!
MW
NS&I have a tracing service for lost records, suspected or known.
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Post by Ace on Jan 3, 2024 8:30:42 GMT
Just £200 for me this month (£100 + 2 × £50).
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Post by agent69 on Jan 3, 2024 8:39:52 GMT
Just £200 for me this month (£100 + 2 × £50). I beat you by £50.
Still, £200 a month must be at least 4.8% return
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Post by benaj on Jan 3, 2024 8:50:34 GMT
Well, Ernie says one bottle of bubbling grape juice for me to start 2024. £50 x 1
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