Help! I am in Fuel Poverty.

MacMickster

abaxas wrote: »

Tell him about vmware esxi.

It's free and stops you attacking his computers with a baseball bat.

Thanks for this and will do.

I'm a bit surprised that he didn't know about this already. I'm now worried that he is actually hacking the Pentagon while pretending to study (so baseball bat may still be required).

setmefree2

Ha Ha this thread did make me laugh. :rotfl:

To the op enjoy ....



If energy prices go up 20% every year when would you consider turning your pool off?

Loughton_Monkey

setmefree2 wrote: »

Ha Ha this thread did make me laugh. :rotfl:

If energy prices go up 20% every year when would you consider turning your pool off?

You do have a point!

Even though it hasn't gone up yet, I did actually turn it off for a week while be boggered off to Cyprus for a week. Wouldn't normally have bothered.

Mrs LM does use it every day, though (while I remain asleep). But it's one of those things that when and if we get those hot summer days, then I do not resent a single penny. Even after it goes up 20%. Champagne and Rasperries make this 'poverty' somewhat easier to live with!

setmefree2

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Even though it hasn't gone up yet, I did actually turn it off for a week while be boggered off to Cyprus for a week. Wouldn't normally have bothered.

:rotfl:


Sussex man eat your heart out....

Le_Chuck

Blacklight wrote: »

08/10 inclusive = 36 months
£4,862/36 = £135/m

average annual, ie per year, not 3 year cummultive

Spirit_2

This thread has "fuelled" my money saving instinct. 3 bed semi cottage, definitly no pool, £50 electricity and £135 for oil each month.

Seems like lots. We have an Aga for heating, cooking, hotwater. No gas option.

Not in poverty but feeling ripped off.

kabayiri

LM : I have a suggestion to counterbalance the pool costs.

Install a solar panel array so large that the feed in tariff will easily cover the running costs of the pool.

This will allow you to inwardly smile knowing your neighbours are genuinely paying for your pool running costs.

Downsides ? Well, the size of array you'd need might cast half the village in permanent shadow, but who cares? It's green !

hcb42

Many of us ar technically in fuel poverty now, no matter what the earnings are..I am in fuel poverty just driving to work on top of the domestic stuff lol

neverdespairgirl

Something to be said for flats, then! Our combined gas and electricity direct debit is £45 a month, and we're in credit at the moment.

hugheskevi

This thread made be re-evaluate the way I look at my expenditure.

Consulting my spreadsheets shows that unfortunately I am drowning in Income Tax Poverty.

I am also very worried about encroaching National Insurance Contribution poverty which seems to get closer every year.

It seems inevitable that at some point I shall also suffer from VAT poverty, and I also have some small concerns about future Council Tax poverty.

Now fortunately I can do something to stave off fuel poverty, and hope to climb out of the mortgage poverty which I also seem to have unfortunately found myself in.

Sadly there seems no way I can address my other forms of 'poverty'