Avoid using GAS and ELECTRIC !

Butterfly_Brain

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

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:

Do what we had to do in the 70's - Bath together, it can be fun and you always get your back scrubbed.
On a more serious note British Gas should be renationalised - Oh but wait , they can't British Gas is owned by the French! Better get out of Europe while we still can

Gigervamp

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Dread to think about the coming winter. Our gas & electric has gone from £50pm to £90pm eeeek!!

That's a big jump in one go, but I wish our bills were as low as yours! We had a hribble shock back in February when both our oil and electric suppliers told us that we needed to increase our DD's. We're now paying £100 for electric and £75 (not enough really) for oil.
We'll only be able to afford one tank of oil for the next year, and we used to have 2 or 3.

rchddap1

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Do what we had to do in the 70's - Bath together, it can be fun and you always get your back scrubbed.

Joint showers can be fun too.

Aril

For small areas of grass use a push mower rather than a electric/petrol mower. On occasion, substitute electric gadgets for hand powered ones eg dust pan and brush rather than vacuum cleaner. Set kitchen timer [wind up not battery ] to limit amount of time on computer [I can easily lose hours when on MSE:D], use manual clocks rather than electric/battery operated ones.
Aril

mardatha

butterfly , can't you use smokeless fuel ? All of Edinburgh uses that and there's tons of coal fires & stoves..

mardatha

Sammykaye, re houses where you cant hang curtains on the lintel -- get an Ikea curtain pole, longest extendable one, and hang the curtains wall to wall on the window wall (LOL does that make sense?) Ikea have huge long curtains for £11+ and you can hang lining behind them. All my windows have wall to wall curtaining, I think it helps keep heat in.

sammy_kaye18

Mardatha - yeah i could hang it inside the window but liek i said we are hopign for blinds so this space would be taken adn the wall that both windows are on on the living room is the long wall (our room is long and thin) so it wouldnt stretch far enough.

I do have an extendable rail in my bedroom though with my curtains on. wondering if i can do somethign similiar witha smaller one inf the front door. Maybe hanging a net curtain pole above on hooks and get a curtain to hang on it but long enough to cover the letter box as we get a fair draught and being a council door i cant see and way to attach the draught excluder letter box thingy to it

mardatha

ok that's a pity its so long.. some houses take a lot of working round , eh ?

sammy_kaye18

yes my hosue drives me batty on several occassions - althoguh have woken up this mornign very hot indeed to the point i thought i had left my heating on (it wasnt) so god knows whats going on today - maybe upstairs had his heating on!

she_grinch

Caterina wrote: »

You are very lucky then! This morning I announced to the family (in agreement with my husband) that we will try not to put the heating on until at least 1st November and my (teenage) kids were totally disgruntled and moaned that they do not want to feel the cold etc.

I just told them that they will have to find alternative ways of keeping warm (heavier clothes. hot water bottles & extra blankets in bed etc) but they said that they do not want to freeze in their own home.

We agreed that we would put the heating on before Nov. only if it got really freezing cold (we did it for a couple of times last year in October).

Caterina

All I met was a series of chants eg:
Why
Whateva
What kind of parents freeze their kids to death
God it's like prison
What is this the olden days
Might as well live in the street!!!!
I'm beginning to agree that the last one was a great idea for them! lol