Avoid using GAS and ELECTRIC !

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mardatha wrote: »

I spent years in dingy flats wishing I could dump the pulleys (victorian clothes airers to you yuppies LOL) I hated them dangling wet washing over my head , and all the clothes smelled of whatever you had been cooking. Now they're back in fashion & everybody wants one. I feel OLD !

SNAP. my mil worked in a frozen chip factory in our early years of marriage, so everything smelt of chips. When we moved into this house, I couldn't get rid of ours quick enough,Now though. how I wish I had moved it up to our upstairs landing.

greenbee

Primrose wrote: »

If you're in the habit of leaving your computer on all day, don't forget that the FUNCTION button + F4 will send it to sleep, in the Doze mode, which uses less power. Simply press FUNCTION + F4 again to bring it back to life.

If you really want to minimise power usage, you need to hibernate your computer, as this is the lowest power mode. You can find this (depending on what operating system you are using and what version, obviously) in the shut down menu.

If you want to know how much energy you are saving by hibernating your computer every time you walk away from it, then get an eco button for. It has software that records how much energy & money you save. http://www.eco-button.com/uk/A2.1.home.htm (they have a site for businesses too). There's a calculator on the site so you can work out how much it will save you!

THIRZAH

I hate the pulley type clothes airers too-can't bear having stuff dangling over my head. We had one when I was in digs as a student-the washing seemed to take ages to dry and the kitchen always felt damp.

sammy_kaye18

Hi All

Have jsut had a moneysaving bargain in town today thanks to this thread.

I have been reading for a while about the three tier steamers and always liked the sound of them but could never jsutify the £10 i wanted to spend on one.

Imagine my surprise i thought oh treat myself with birthday money and buy one, went into wilko, picked out a nice one for £9.99 - got to the till.

cashier 'oh this item is half price, the sticker must of fallen off' :j :j :j :j my new three tier steamer only cost me £4.74!

BARGAIN so much more money saving now I only really need to use one hob now!

savingpennies

I have one of the pulley type airers and it's in the garage. Clothes don't seem to take long to dry on it. I've also got a standard clothes airer in there for when there's a lot of washing and it's too wet to line dry.

mardatha

I think instead of doing all this to survive, we should start a revolution and BRING BACK THE GUILLOTINE ! lol..For the head of british gas to tell us smugly from his £1 million-a-year salaried viewpoint, to wear more jumpers...is arrogant and WRONG. They will be bringing back the workhouse next...

annie123

I love steamed veg, taste great and thats a good price for a 3 tier one SK

slight change of subject.........
RE: gas hikes, DH costed his bath price this morning, 95p:eek:
He has one every day!

We have just worked out that HALF of our last gas bill is him having a bath:eek: :eek: :eek:

He will from now on be having showers and a weekly soak same as the rest of us, or a very very shallow bath.

sammy_kaye18

annie123 wrote: »

RE: gas hikes, DH costed his bath price this morning, 95p:eek:
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WWWHHHHAAATTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

I love a nice deep hot bath but i have them maybe twice a week and the rest of the time is showers. Hmm.......think me baths will be shallower form now on:rolleyes:

phizzimum

annie that truly is :eek:!

we had a woodburning stove fitted last year and thought we'd see a real drop in our gas bill as we rarely used the central heating last winter. But the bill hardly dropped, even having taken into account the rise in prices.

I hadn't really thought about the impact of heating the water. how did you make your calculations?

annie123

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I hadn't really thought about the impact of heating the water. how did you make your calculations?[/quote]

We read meter, then turned on hot tap, only thing using the boiler, then read again.

DH used rusty a level maths to work it out but they do tell you on the bill how to convert gas units to kwh which is how it is billed/priced.

but as a rough guide our last bill was £140.15 we had used 143 units of gas.
a bath used 1.1 units of gas
143 to £140 roughly £1 per unit and his deep filled bath used 1.1 units of gas.