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Need Advice Paying For $1300 Electric Bill

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Smells like shitposting or trolling.

Or OP is already saying the same thing to the welfare providers and just in case he does get caught online, his story is consistent.

He might actually act dumb to get a rise out of people.
 
Gizmo j said:
there was a clarical error where I wasn't paying my electric bill for about a year.
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UK here admittedly - this happened to me just over ten years ago and the customer service rep said it's due to pay now, and I just said nope. We sorted out a payment plan. No interest paid on the balance.

In my experience they would rather have something than nothing, so in order to get something they're willing to bend quite a bit.
 
WilliamM2 said:
You're the expert.
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In my county's publicly online database of various information, which includes complaints to the administrative agency on housing, someone did make a complaint that they were running a generator in their living quarters and that the landlord's failed to maintain the electricity to the apartment.
 
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Torn Mind said:
In my county's publicly online database of various information, which includes complaints to the administrative agency on housing, someone did make a complaint that they were running a generator in their living quarters and that the landlord's failed to maintain it.
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Lol our landlord isn't trying hard enough to kill us. Bad landlord.
 
If you're going to try to run a generator indoors, which I really don't recommend, at minimum, get at least 2 CO detectors, one near the generator and one where you are sleeping. You will want to pipe the exhaust outside with double wall pipe, and also have an intake for make up air. By the time you spend money on all of that you may as well just pay the hydro bill because you'll be looking at close to 1 grand in materials to make it at least semi safe. Of course CO is only half the danger. The idea of having gasoline and an internal combustion engine indoors is a hazard itself.

So yeah I don't recommend it.
 
The OP is just going to do what the OP does.

But let's recap:

1) Don't run a generator inside. First, that's incredibly dangerous for you and your neighbors (if a multifamily building), and it will be more expensive long-term
2) Don't pay your electric bill with a credit card, that's a really bad idea, considering the interest rate will probably be like 25%
3) Call the electric company, they have programs that can help
4) if the electric company can't help, there are certainly government and non-government (eg, charity) programs that can help
 
Torn Mind said:
Smells like shitposting or trolling.

Or OP is already saying the same thing to the welfare providers and just in case he does get caught online, his story is consistent.

He might actually act dumb to get a rise out of people.
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Here is a video testing the lights and showing the generator my uncle gave me.
 
Wait you're not seriously planning to run that indoors right? At least it's an inverter one so it's going to be a bit more efficient... but still don't run that inside lol.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wait you're not seriously planning to run that indoors right? At least it's an inverter one so it's going to be a bit more efficient... but still don't run that inside lol.
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Yeah my neighbor was able to turn on it on but it was a little loud.

I think I'll use it if it's a emergency.

I've been charging my phone and laptop at the public library.
 
Life hack: sell the generator, pay bill with money.

As a side note may this be a life lesson to double check your bank account regularly and make sure your bills are actually coming out. To rack up such a bill it must have been close to a year that it was not coming out so should have caught that before. Although it would have been nice if the hydro company warned you that the first bill didn't go through... so I do fault them for that to some extent.
 
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