Preparedness for when

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Frugalsod wrote: »

As you know I have recently moved and one thing I bought myself for the new flat was an ultra efficient fridge. I opted for an A+++ fridge freezer and after a couple of weeks of being in the new place my electricity usage has plummeted. It is currently less than one seventh of the previous usage and the only change has been the fridge freezer. I transferred all the food over. As it stands my electricity bill looks like plummeting from £567 annually to only £266 a year. So the extra cost of the higher efficiency fridge looks like paying for itself in a year, and the total cost will have been recovered in less than two years. As this will be a permanent reduction in living costs I now have an extra £300 a year for preps. :money:

I recall a programme on fuel use where they replaced a very old fridge or fridge freezer which was a gas guzzler and the participant discovered he had been spending an extra £30 so it had at less then £360 for the new one, he saved the cost in less than a year.

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NewShadow wrote: »

You indicated if the alarm went off, and the instruction was to remain where you are, you would immediately exit the building - that is contra to instruction.

Where I work, there is no automated "do not evacuate" announcement, and anyone making a manual announcement, would be breaching the company fire alarm rules.

nuatha

Siebrie wrote: »

Due to the disruption in Brussels, and some banks having a bank holiday on Friday and Monday, my monthly salary will reach my bank account five days late. We are fine, and I assume most people here would be fine. Am I right?

Zero income since December (when a client failed to make contracted payments and two other awarded contracts have since cancelled at short notice). Tightened belts and ok so far, but Herself's salary being late in a month or three could be problematic. Hopefully the new financial year should ease things - a number of firms I've spoken to have frozen recruitment until after the new Living Wage is implemented, strange for posts that are several times that hourly rate, but logic rarely applies.

thriftwizard

What's puzzling me about the whole fuel usage/cost business is that our bills are only just over twice what my mother's are. She lives in an almost-new, highly-insulated PB flat, with virtually new appliances, and hardly ever cooks as her main meal's delivered every day. We live in a rambling, leaky old Victorian/Edwardian detached; it does have cavity-wall insulation, and most of the main windows face south - only more recent additions face north or east, but it's single-glazed with drafts that can sometimes wobble even the sturdiest quilted blinds. And there are 7 of us, some often not going to bed until 3 hours before the first one gets up in the morning. Whilst most of the cooking is shared, those who come in late/are starving after footie/dancing etc. don't hesitate to stick a pizza in the main oven before leaping into the shower. So how come Mum's bills aren't much lower, or ours far higher? Her flat's always blisteringly hot, but the radiators don't seem to be unduly warm. I'm sure my step-sibs are keeping tabs on which tariff she's on - we divvy up "parental care" tasks quite equitably, and I do most of her shopping - as I do on ours, but I'm starting to question just how much more economical modern buildings are over older ones.

maryb

I have been keeping detailed gas and elec readings every week for the last few months and I cannot see any rhyme or reason to the ups and downs. I tried doing daily readings for about two weeks and still couldn't work out what caused the quite large fluctuations eg a day when I washed and tumble dried four wash loads had lower electric usage than the day before. And since we have gas heating and hot water it's not really weather dependent

Hard_Up_Hester

craigywv wrote: »

love it ,I go away for two weeks and come back to you talking about threesomes and cannibalism,i missed your deep meaningful conversations.

I would really recommend a two females to one male threesome, just think how much crochet I could get done whilst the other female and male were being naughty.

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Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I would really recommend a two females to one male threesome.

I'm sold.

Do you know another female, who could join us?

Doveling

I don't know how to crochet, would origami be acceptable if the need ever arose?

Karmacat - so sorry. Are you and your family all ok? x

Hard_Up_Hester

Doveling, I could teach you to crochet, you could teach me origami & Bob could take himself in hand!

GreyQueen

:rotfl: Oooh, Hester, you are sooo naughty, but we loves ya.