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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.
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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.
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Potter wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:23 am 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 :lol:
I'd get me one of them Paedophile's Islands, like Jeffrey Epshtein.
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KungFooBob wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:27 am 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. :shock:

(I won't mention how much value they've lost since I bought them though :lol: ).
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Etherium is where the clever money is now.

Also structured notes.
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:23 pm Ethereum is where the clever money was in mid 2020.
FTFY
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mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:54 pm
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:23 pm Ethereum is where the clever money was in mid 2020.
FTFY
....and sold on the 12th November 2021. :thumbup:
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Bored Ape Yacht Club.

Gonna bounce back any day now, mark my words.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 10:17 pm 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.
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Got some tulip bulbs somewhere around here...
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:42 am 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. :thumbup:
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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.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:29 pm 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?
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Just a ton this month!
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£50 last month, £350 this month :clap:
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£25 👎
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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?" :lol: "Not yet" seems to be the general consensus.

Cisco systems had a growth of 100,000% in the dot com bubble :o. I'm not expecting that kind of performance sadly.
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1 x £25 1 x £50 2 x £100! :thumbup:
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Whoo hoo £100,I'll put that toward the road tax for my SV650 :thumbup:
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Vast majority of my stuff is in ETFs or Mutual places, most of it run by the most evil organisations in the world - Vangaurd and Blackrock :o Overall they do pretty well and i leave em to it. They're pretty tech heavy at the moment, buts that not my doing.

I just keep a bit of my monthly SIPP contribution back and every so often buy shares "directly", just for interests sake. I'm betting on real long term trends though, so basically AI and anything to do with Energy. I bought First Solar a while ago too, an American manufacturer of er...Solar Panels. At one point they were down 80% but now they're up 190% from where I started. It's a mad old world.