Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

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2tonsils you need to lay off the gin! :rotfl:

Or take more water with it

2tonsils

for someone who doesn't drink I have been doing well in the falling down stakes.......think I am going to have to go to casualty tomorrow if its no better.

Popperwell

That's a good point about flushing the toilet GQ.

Also about possibly restricting how much water is in the cistern.

Not sure what to do. By that I mean whether to press on with a meter as an idea. I don't have baths anymore and just have a quick sponge down and a shave at the sink. TMI:eek::o
That could make a water meter not such a good idea. Without a meter I can use much more and have the luxury of a bath.

The possiblity that a family might be put off was mentioned by the water company but she said she thought I would save around half of what I am paying now if I had the charge looked at but that reduction is only given if you apply for a water meter and are turned down. £20 per month is better than nearly £40.

But they said if the HA said no, they probably could put the meter in using the network on the public highway.

Forgetting about the toilet flushing and bath. She felt that with a water meter I might be using so little it might cost less than £20 a month. Don't know whether to go ahead or leave it.

She told me there should be no problems and my HA will probably give the go ahead. That other HA properties have had a meter installed even in my street.

I can't quite remember how she explained something else but she said a figure that suggested should a family come here they would be paying no more than me but perhaps that was about the charge if a water meter was not installed.

I can think about it for a few more weeks I suppose. After all what's a few weeks against 52 years of being in this property?

Sorry to hear of your fall 2T, there's always something to mess things up when things seem to be not going to badly...I'll say it anyhow even though as if you would have an accident by choice "Take care of you!"

midnight_express

If you put a brick in the cistern you will use less water when flushing.

GreyQueen

Pops, I just paid the water bill for the 6 months to mid-Jan and it was £51.34. That's 26 weeks at £1.97 a week. I'd have forty-fits at paying £20 a month, never mind £40.

Please do explore this option, you sound like a very low user and I have baths as well and run a washer 10-12 times a month. You'd be quids in, IMO, anyway.

Been talking to the public about the welfare changes starting beginning of April (I utterly refuse to call them reforms, as a reform is to make something better). It's heartbreaking.

One council which trialled the bedroom tax has had to serve 17% of the households involved with notice to quit for rent arrears and another huge percentage, never in arrears previously, owe them hundreds of £££ each. Me and my colleagues are truly anxious about what will befall people. It's grim, like watching a very slow motion train crash and being utterly powerless to stop it.

Deffo going to add the Hunger Games to my reading list, I'd dismissed it as lightweight stuff although I watched the film with a pal. She asked me what I thought as we filed out and my judgement was enjoyable tosh, which was her opinion, too.

If the book/books has more substance, I would be glad to add them to my reading list. Just finished David Brin's magnum opus Earth which is involved with SHTF and various other subjects. Mega read, kept me quiet for about a week and I normally read a thriller a night.

katieclampet

After reading through the last few days posts I have been perusing amazon, and put
* hunger games
* Weathermonger
* survival handbook
and Earth, on my wish list. I have a birthday coming up soon, so that will give the family some ideas. They all sound really entertaining.

I do like a really good thick book, (good as in interesting to read) that can take me a few days or longer to read. Its such a joy to find one of those "unputdownable" (is their such a word?:) ) books, where all you want to do is carry on reading. 1 more chapter and I WILL turn the light off, even though it is 2.00am.

katie

missrlr

Pops we have a meter, spend less than £100 PER YEAR For 2 adults,both showering at least once a day, washing machine on once per day and dish washer three times a week. Plus bath say one a month, and fish tank refills weekly, plus usual stuff. We do have water saving devices on shower, loo etc but don't go over board with this. Well worth doing in our experience

Popperwell

I suspect even had Mum still been here we could have been paying a lot less for years, probably decades. Heck why stop there, we were always low users so even as a family of three we were probably paying over the odds.

Money not spent on water rates could be saved towards the new Housing Benefit or other bills I won't say that it does worry me and many. But as has been said if they don't move the goalposts and I remain as present I could probably absorb this.

By moving the goalposts I mean in six years I would not be affected but they could just keep moving the date so you have to be older as they keep pushing the date that you get your pension or retire from work.

No one knows really what is going to happen but it's not good...

I still have not ruled out having a lodger as a last resort.

I really appreciate the support and help given. Thank you everyone.

Upsidedown_Bear

Delurking to recommend another book that you might find interesting.
It was written in the 1970's but is still very relevant to today.

"On next to nothing - a guide to survival today" by Thomas and Susan Hinde.

Copies from Amaz*n from 1p

[Deleted User]

Thus is an excellent survival book, written by a true expert.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SAS-Survival-Handbook-ultimate-surviving/dp/0007274939/ref=dp_ob_title_bk