40 and Foolish!

NewLeaf_2

Hello All, I emptied, cleaned and reorganised the pantry. Helped a friend with the business and made £20.

OH mowed the grass and I helped weed. Too hot to do much else so I have had a bath and shampoo in the coolest water to try to not melt.

Hope everyone had a good Saturday

HappyNow

NewLeaf wrote: »

Hello All, I emptied, cleaned and reorganised the pantry. Helped a friend with the business and made £20.

OH mowed the grass and I helped weed.

Should you be doing all that with a fractured and dislocated rib?? Take care and give yourself time to heal x

NewLeaf_2

Hi Happy Now.. The pantry organising wasn't too bad. thanks for caring xx

NewLeaf_2

i did a review of my gas and electric yesterday and one rocked in at £686/yr and the other £600/yr.

I wish I knew what was an average for a 3 bed 2 bath, kitchen, lounge and diningroom house.

It seems high to me.

Grand_Benders

NewLeaf wrote: »

i did a review of my gas and electric yesterday and one rocked in at £686/yr and the other £600/yr.

I wish I knew what was an average for a 3 bed 2 bath, kitchen, lounge and diningroom house.

It seems high to me.

That's pretty much the config of our house, with 2 adults and a sprinkling of pets, so pretty similar (although ours is an 1830s built stone cottage so insulation might be different). Our DD for Elec alone is £55 a month, but we've been overpaying and I've asked them to reduce it to £40 which will still cover us. That makes our Elec around £480 a year.

Heating and hot water is oil fired as we don't have mains Gas, and hob is hooked up to an external Calor Gas (propane) supply. Haven't had to refill the Calor in the 5 years we've lived here (what does that say about my cooking skills) :rotfl:

We have about 5 tanks of Oil a year for heating/water, and the price of that fluctuates with petrol prices, :eek: so can be anything from £500 to £650 per fill. So, our heat and light total in the year is about £3.5k.

Dunno if that helps you at all, since it's not really a direct comparison of gas/elec though.

triple_choc_chip

Grand_Benders wrote: »

We have about 5 tanks of Oil a year for heating/water, and the price of that fluctuates with petrol prices, :eek: so can be anything from £500 to £650 per fill. So, our heat and light total in the year is about £3.5k.

Wow, are you sure no-ones nicking it? :rotfl:

I have the same number of rooms and my electric is £53 a month dd.
My oil for heating/water lasts approx 7 months through the summer and 5 months over the winter, sometimes longer - and I like it warm! I pay £80 per month dd. Therefore spending £1600 a yr.

NewLeaf_2

i would like to cut down on my electric, our tv and stuff goes on standby at night

Buffythedebtslayer

New Leaf, I read and lurk and just wanted to say

YOU ARE NOT FOOLISH.

at all. ok?

good

Be careful with your rib xxx

Grand_Benders

triple_choc_chip wrote: »

Wow, are you sure no-ones nicking it? :rotfl:

I have the same number of rooms and my electric is £53 a month dd.
My oil for heating/water lasts approx 7 months through the summer and 5 months over the winter, sometimes longer - and I like it warm! I pay £80 per month dd. Therefore spending £1600 a yr.

Hmmm... now you've got me wondering! Maybe I'm over-estimating how many fills we have a year. It just feels like it's every 2 months or so (certainly through the winter, less in summer as heating is off, so just hot water).

Since I did all my filing yesterday, I'm going to dig out my invoices from the oil people and check.

It really helps to find out what other people are paying. This is the first home we've had with oil fired heating, so we don't have a comparison.


NL - you can get devices that you plug in that power everything down when you put your tv on standby. I actually have two and have never got round to setting them up, but I think you have the 'trigger' device (i.e., the TV) and then 'slave' devices. When the 'trigger' device goes into standby, the others (but not the trigger) all switch off properly. I was thinking of setting this up, with my TV as the trigger and everything else on one extension socket as the slave, except the Sky box in case it's recording or updating overnight (so I'd put that on its own socket).

grannyx2

NewLeaf wrote: »

i did a review of my gas and electric yesterday and one rocked in at £686/yr and the other £600/yr.

I wish I knew what was an average for a 3 bed 2 bath, kitchen, lounge and diningroom house.

It seems high to me.

Our's are about £115pm together for house of similar size x

This forum seems to indicate your charges are about right

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/501715

Gx2 x

Hope the ribs and other things are improving x