Shut the door!

Rummer wrote: »

I just need a mini rant and to hear that I am not alone! Currently I am trying to reduce our bills and it is an ongoing battle with my family to get them to work with me. It is the little things like:

• Leaving lights/appliances on when not in the room
• Leaving doors open
• Not putting away the milk when making a cup of tea
• Running baths and then constantly topping up the hot water
• Putting clean clothes in the laundry
• Wasting food

Does anyone else have these mini daily battles with family or are you all managing to work together?

Lol, no this is an ongoing battle in our house too! My DD's are 16 &18 and are only just getting the 'hang' of turning lights out, shutting the living room door, not putting clothes in the wash bin just because they have tried them on but after an awful lot of nagging, we are getting there and I only really need to remind them to turn the kitchen light out. Our gas and electric bill is about £75 a month at the moment and this time last year it was over £100 so progress is being made.

I also hide the remote central heating control because they would turn that up to 22 degrees, our living room is currently 18.7 degrees and me and eldest DD have our onesies on (£12 from Pr!mark and well worth the money) and we are quite toasty in them. If anyone is cold, they have to prove they have enough layers on first before I will allow the heating or fire on as otherwise my youngest DD will come down stairs wearing a skirt that should really be used as a belt and a vest top and say it's freezing!

Rummer wrote: »

Glad (sorry) to hear it is not just me! The irony is I used to do all these things when I lived at my parents house. It used to really irritate me that they constantly nagged me about closing doors and turning off lights. Now I am using all their well worn phrases :rotfl: in fact I even apologised to them a while ago as I now understand how frustrating it is!

Oh I had forgotten the walking about in a t-shirt and going to switch on the heating debate and the house being full of food but there is nothing to eat so lets get a takeaway whine!

I was talking to my girls this morning about them complaining there is never any food in the house. I have a large fridge full of food, a larder cupboard full, a couple of shelves in the garage full and 2 freezers full of food but they complain we have no food. What they mean is there is no food that they can just eat now, everything else needs some kind of prep!

I too have turned into my mother :rotfl:

OP I feel your pain I really do, I could have written that post myself.
In fact just before I sat down with a cuppa to read the thread I had said to 12 year old, shut kitchen door, shut living room door, switch off the hall light.
To 8 year old, If you are cold put some more clothes on he was in a pair of shorty pyjamas moaning he was cold.
Finally to OH will you shut the B****y front door please as he had gone out to the bins and then decided top start brushing the path all the while the front door is wide open and my expensive heat is flying out to the garden.

I am so glad it's not just me!

"Shut the Kitchen Door" is probably the most heard saying in this house at the moment!

Oh yes! ..

They are getting quite good here though... due to my constant nagging I think.
I say things like:

"I'm not trying to help heat KLM!!" (our national airline)

"The birds don't need central heating!"

"SHUT THE DOOR!!!!"

I've threatened to dock their allowence if they didn't switch lights off and that seemed to do the trick pretty good.