premium bonds.

[Dodgy69]

My challenge for this year is to get higher up this list..

https://www.nsandi.com/prize-checker/winners

[Dodgy69]

I never get tempted to do the lotteries, the chance of winning is beyond my understanding, whereas the PB often gives me a little prize and maybe, just maybe, something a bit bigger.

[Mr. Dazzle]

get me just a little bit excited and have a bit of a daydream about how I’d spend ten million.

That's what your ticket price (£2.50? I dunno, I remember it being a quid. I also broke my arm on the day of the first ever draw in the 90s. Funny things memories) actually gets you, isn't it?

I enter Euromillions when it's >£100m sometimes. Which is fucking daft, 'cause £5m or £100m would both have a major transformative effect on my life I ain't paying the idiot tax for just a paltry 5 mil though!

I never get tempted to do the lotteries, the chance of winning is beyond my understanding, whereas the PB often gives me a little prize and maybe, just maybe, something a bit bigger.

You're far more likely to win the Euromillions (assuming you enter ) than you are to win a million quid in the PBs in any given month. Advantage with PBs of course is that you get your money back even if you lose!

[KungFooBob]

I spend £16 a month on a single lucky dip on every UK draw.

Like Dazzler, I only do the Euro's when it's over £100m.

The most I've ever won on the Lotto is £100, twice. Both times were roll downs, when the prize should have been £25 any other time.

[KungFooBob]

Last month I opened a joint Santander Edge account, and two Edge Savers (one for the wife, one for me) and put £4k in each of them.

Today the interest hit the account, just over £21 in each and the current account paid £11 cashback on my bills and debit card spending.

Just over £50 is more than I've won on the Premiums in the last 6 months.

[MyLittleStudPony]

I like having the conversation - "What would you do with a £100m win?".
You can tell a lot about a person based on the answers.

We checked our lottery tickets lying in bed this morning (I made us toast and coffee and we had a lazy half hour still in bed reading the news) and we didn't win. It prompted a conversation about what we'd do if we won £100m and neither of us could think of anthing that we'd buy or change how we live, so the conversation quickly turned into who we'd help and how.

It was a fun conversation, we spent ages talking about how we'd surprise different family members with a nice windfall, for some of them it would make a monumental change to their lives, I won't bore you with it though

I'd get me one of them Paedophile's Islands, like Jeffrey Epshtein.

[Count Steer]

Last month I opened a joint Santander Edge account, and two Edge Savers (one for the wife, one for me) and put £4k in each of them.

Today the interest hit the account, just over £21 in each and the current account paid £11 cashback on my bills and debit card spending.

Just over £50 is more than I've won on the Premiums in the last 6 months.

I got £71 in dividends on £1300 worth of Vodafone shares recently...they're currently returning 11.23% annual dividend yield.

(I won't mention how much value they've lost since I bought them though ).

[MyLittleStudPony]

Etherium is where the clever money is now.

Also structured notes.

[mangocrazy]

Ethereum is where the clever money was in mid 2020.

FTFY

[Count Steer]

Ethereum is where the clever money was in mid 2020.

FTFY

....and sold on the 12th November 2021.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Gonna bounce back any day now, mark my words.

[Count Steer]

Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Gonna bounce back any day now, mark my words.

I was going to say 'the world's gone mad' but really it's not that different from the 'art market' deciding that a pickled shark or a few splashes of paint on canvas are worth £xM. Just agreed high value trading tokens with no intrinsic value....and that's not very different from a £50 note, another token just with wider agreement on the tradeable value.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Got some tulip bulbs somewhere around here...

[Count Steer]

Got some tulip bulbs somewhere around here...

I've got a drawer full of bubbles from the South Sea that'll fur line my pension plan when the market gets an uptick.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I cannot help but hear "Ethereum" in my head as "Urethra". It takes a real conscious effort to 'say' it properly.

It's the main reason I've never bought any.

[KungFooBob]

I cannot help but hear "Ethereum" in my head as "Urethra". It takes a real conscious effort to 'say' it properly.

It's the main reason I've never bought any.

Are you taking the piss?

[Sadlonelygit]

Just a ton this month!

[scottyuk]

£50 last month, £350 this month

[Dodgy69]

£25

[Mr. Dazzle]

Last time I mentioned it in here my Nvidia shares were up 190%, I've just checked and now they're up 480%.

It's enough to get me Googling "when will Nvidia shares crash?" "Not yet" seems to be the general consensus.

Cisco systems had a growth of 100,000% in the dot com bubble . I'm not expecting that kind of performance sadly.