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Living in a cold apartment has finally paid off

minendo

minendo

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After a couple of electric bills over $100, I decided that I had enough with paying these prices. Plus I could not afford it. I told the woman that she would have to deal with it always being cold in the apartment. So with a daily average temperature of around 50F in the apartment we went on. Today the electric bill showed up and I expected to probably be around $80. Open it up and it was only $61 and change. Thats $60 cheaper than last month.
 
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My house that at college (basement, 1st floor, 2nd floor, attic (my room) are all heated by gas. Last month our bill was $250. It has been balls cold in here since.
In the warmer months the bill is about $20.
 
Ha....our heat doesn't work, so we don't use it, and our electric bill for our 2 bedroom apartment is about $120 every month.
 
We had a heating bill of $112 with a daily average of 15 degrees in January. The heat was set at 72. And our house doesen't even have that efficient of a heater or insulation.

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Originally posted by: Deeko
Ha....our heat doesn't work, so we don't use it, and our electric bill for our 2 bedroom apartment is about $120 every month.
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We were paying about $120/month while keeping the apartment at a constant 72F. This is for a 2 bedroom 902 square foot apartment.
 
I too kept temp in my house cold cause I sleep better that way and I'm gone from the place working all day anyways. One thing I noticed was that if I only let the house dip to 55 - 57 degrees from the normal 60 - 62 I have it when I'm home, the bill is a lot cheaper than say staying 62 but letting it drop to 50 degrees while away for the day. It's much easier and less expensive to not vary the temp so much.
 
My heating bill this winter averaged between 150-200 bucks a month.
Its standard of living fellas. i aint scapin to get by, and this isnt Afghanistan. I'll kick the heat up a notch or two, grab a book and settle bnack in my chair.
Because I can.

🙂
 
the second house i ever baught was a 5 bedroom farmhouse. it was old! the first winter we were in it i had to fill the propane tank 3 times! it was roughly $400 to fill it each time.

The next year we just closed all the upstairs bedrooms and converted the family room into the bedroom (we had a family room, living room, office, kitchen and a bathroom with shower downstairs). We then kept the heat to 65F and just put on more sweaters.

It would have worked but we had a really bad winter that year. i still ended up spending the same amount. SO i sold the place and moved heh loved the house. but darn it needed way to much work on it.
 
YOu use central heat or what? You ever try one of those small room heaters? Sucks living in an entirely cold apartment. At least one room can be warm.
 
how dare you heat your houses wasting all that precious energy!
you should all live in small 2 bedroom houses to keep energy usage down! Anything more is a waste and we all should hate you for it.
 
Originally posted by: Ladies Man
how dare you heat your houses wasting all that precious energy!
you should all live in small 2 bedroom houses to keep energy usage down! Anything more is a waste and we all should hate you for it.
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I'm trying to keep balance in the system. The petroluem companies budget so much fuel for winter, if there was a oversupply the price would droip and the economy would suffer due to the excess stock of gas. Thus, I have to use more then my fair share to balance out people who try to conserve.
Just doing my part to keep the economy healthy and on an even keel.
 
I'm with Shockwave on this one. For $60 a month difference I'd just work a little extra and keep my house at a comfortable temperature.
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
I'm with Shockwave on this one. For $60 a month difference I'd just work a little extra and keep my house at a comfortable temperature.
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I stretch my time out as far as possible already. Now if the woman would get a job and help pay the bills, we could have heat.
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: KingNothing
I'm with Shockwave on this one. For $60 a month difference I'd just work a little extra and keep my house at a comfortable temperature.
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I stretch my time out as far as possible already. Now if the woman would get a job and help pay the bills, we could have heat.
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So you pay the entire rent by yourself? :Q
 
Originally posted by: Lager
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: KingNothing
I'm with Shockwave on this one. For $60 a month difference I'd just work a little extra and keep my house at a comfortable temperature.
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I stretch my time out as far as possible already. Now if the woman would get a job and help pay the bills, we could have heat.
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So you pay the entire rent by yourself? :Q
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Her only source of income is the half of rent supplied by her parents. She pays half of the base rent, I cover the other half plus utilities, food and other expenses.
 
I take the attitude that I work my butt off and I refuse to be cold if there's anything I can do to prevent it,if that means a somewhat higher electric bill so be it.
 
Why are you all talking about turning on the heat.... it's air conditioning or the windows open for me! 😀
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: Lager
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: KingNothing
I'm with Shockwave on this one. For $60 a month difference I'd just work a little extra and keep my house at a comfortable temperature.
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I stretch my time out as far as possible already. Now if the woman would get a job and help pay the bills, we could have heat.
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So you pay the entire rent by yourself? :Q
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Her only source of income is the half of rent supplied by her parents. She pays half of the base rent, I cover the other half plus utilities, food and other expenses.
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You better be getting a lot of nookie in return for that. 😀
 
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