The cost of not being out at work in the Winter months?

red_devil

Does anyone worry or think about the costs regarding being at home in the winter when you need to have the heating on etc?

Is it cheaper to be out at work or is it swings and roundabouts?

What do you think about the cost of being at home?

want-it-all

red_devil wrote: »

Does anyone worry or think about the costs regarding being at home in the winter when you need to have the heating on etc?

Is it cheaper to be out at work or is it swings and roundabouts?

What do you think about the cost of being at home?

It'd depend upon other things like travel costs to work, and so on.

For me, my being away from home definitely lowers my gas & electric bills. I leave my 1-bed flat all day in the dark and cold, with no appliances running. My duel fuel costs through N-Power are £25 per month, and have just been reduced to £21 per month despite the harsh winter - I supply accurate meter readings, so I do genuinely always pay no more than £300 per year in gas & electric combined, and always have done.

However, getting to work costs £30.00 per week in petrol and parking. Plus, I probably wouldn't need to purchase, insure, tax, MOT and maintain cars if it wasn't for work

red_devil

I worry about the cost of having the fire on in the winter but it cant be helped.

LadyMissA

red_devil wrote: »

Does anyone worry or think about the costs regarding being at home in the winter when you need to have the heating on etc?

Is it cheaper to be out at work or is it swings and roundabouts?

What do you think about the cost of being at home?

well paying for heating on £67.50 a week is a lot harder than paying for it when I was on £470 a week.

I only have a fan heater and have not had it on much but still cost a lot and have an electic key so costing a lot more to begin with.
Some times I have sat in my room with a duvet round me.

LadyMissA

want-it-all wrote: »

I do genuinely always pay no more than £300 per year in gas & electric combined, and always have done.

OMG, really? How?

Our gas is £30 a month and we have no heating or boiler & prob pay £20 a week for electric so its £1020 for the electric alone.

We have a gas fire, gas cooker and an emersion heater for the water so I can only think you sit in the dark and eat cold food in the cold.

dandelionclock30

Thank God its not winter all year round.
You could always go and sit in the library for warmth or volunteer as the places are heated and you get your lunch and bus fare.

falko89

We have oil heating, we got a fill just before Christmas, so that should take us through to the end of Summer, Now I'm a guy who's used to working in cold factories/workshops with no heating so can stick the cold but this past couple of weeks i've had to put the heat on during the day as the house was bloody freezing, as for electric, £10 a week is still doing us OK haven't noticed much difference in that respect, when I'm at home during the day I don't have the TV or anything on, just the laptop.

want-it-all

LadyMissA wrote: »

OMG, really? How?

Our gas is £30 a month and we have no heating or boiler & prob pay £20 a week for electric so its £1020 for the electric alone.

We have a gas fire, gas cooker and an emersion heater for the water so I can only think you sit in the dark and eat cold food in the cold.

We only have a teeny tiny one-bed flat, which is the main thing. It doesn't get brass monkeys cold, not even in the dead of the winter.

We have GCH, and only have 5 radiators, but one is in the kitchen and one is in the hall, so as far as I'm aware, they've never even been switched on (might not even work!).

I only wash the dishes every couple of days, i.e. when there's a bowl full, and I only do one (occasionally two) loads of laundry a week. I take one (electric) shower a day. I have a gas cooker that I use once a day for 5 days a week, OH treats me to a takeaway at weekends.

I don't have any appliances like a dishwasher, tumble dryer, etc. The only electronics I really use are the fridge-freezer (constantly, obviously), PC (heavily) and the TV (lightly).

Despite living with my partner, he showers and washes his clothes at his mum's after work each day, as he has a very dirty job and I won't have smelly and oily work clothes lying around in my washbasket He helps her out in other ways (she requires a bit of care), so it's an unspoken agreement they've had for years.

If the bill also included the extra costs that a partner would normally incur, it'd still be quite low - I've lived with a 'full time' partner in the past and still never had large bills.

A combination of luck and frugality, I guess

LadyMissA

want-it-all wrote: »

We only have a teeny tiny one-bed flat, which is the main thing. It doesn't get brass monkeys cold, not even in the dead of the winter.

We have GCH, and only have 5 radiators, but one is in the kitchen and one is in the hall, so as far as I'm aware, they've never even been switched on (might not even work!).

I only wash the dishes every couple of days, i.e. when there's a bowl full, and I only do one (occasionally two) loads of laundry a week. I take one (electric) shower a day. I have a gas cooker that I use once a day for 5 days a week, OH treats me to a takeaway at weekends.

I don't have any appliances like a dishwasher, tumble dryer, etc. The only electronics I really use are the fridge-freezer (constantly, obviously), PC (heavily) and the TV (lightly).

Despite living with my partner, he showers and washes his clothes at his mum's after work each day, as he has a very dirty job and I won't have smelly and oily work clothes lying around in my washbasket He helps her out in other ways (she requires a bit of care), so it's an unspoken agreement they've had for years.

If the bill also included the extra costs that a partner would normally incur, it'd still be quite low - I've lived with a 'full time' partner in the past and still never had large bills.

A combination of luck and frugality, I guess

Well you must be lucky to have a warm flat, maybe the heat of the flat below heats yours up. I live in a drafty house with no double glazing and no central heating and it was 2 degrees in my bedroom the other week and alwyas have wet windows in the morning with all the condensation all over them.

I am only taking one shower every other day as I can even afford the shower gel, I kid you not.

The other day I had to go to bed at 10pm as the meter key had run out and were were emergency

Pupnik

LadyMissA wrote: »

OMG, really? How?

Our gas is £30 a month and we have no heating or boiler & prob pay £20 a week for electric so its £1020 for the electric alone.

We have a gas fire, gas cooker and an emersion heater for the water so I can only think you sit in the dark and eat cold food in the cold.

I think that gas is one of the most expensive forms of energy so having a gas cooker and gas fire is what is bringing your bills up, our last gas bill was 48p because we hardly use it, everything is electric in our flat and we probably pay £25 a month in electricity (with a key so we don't have bills, but we top it up with £10 roughly every 2 weeks). We don't put the heating on very often, we wear thermals and dressing gowns instead (I live in the South so it has been a mild winter)

pinetree

I try to cut the cost of heating by having hot water bottles when the heating isnt on. But not if you are elderly, disabled or have children. It just helps a bit.:)