It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Effician

marycanary said:

Effician said:

Quite happy to turn our router off overnight, fortunately no gamers/business users/4k streaming/voip/door bells etc, yes we lose a little speed but fast enough for our needs & worth the small saving.

If you are happy with reducing the speed of your current internet package perhaps you could get a deal with lower speeds when you next change provider (assuming you are not on the lowest possible tariff at the moment). This might save more than the electricity saving from turning off each night.

We're still getting 35mbps download as opposed to 40mbps so not a great loss ( aluminium cable from box to pole limits us here) our old BT deal expires in a few weeks so will see what's available then.

Gers

EssexHebridean said:

euronorris said:

Be aware that if you turn off your WiFi router, and have a ring doorbell (for example), it then won't work overnight. We've been broken into before, so we'll absorb the cost of keeping the router on 24/7.

Another point on this is that an increasing number of people are being switched across to voice-over-internet phone lines, and still others live in an area where they rely on "wifi calling" to boost an otherwise unreliable mobile connection. Potentially by turning the router off you are leaving yourself in a position where if you needed to call 999 in the night you may find yourself unable to do so. 

Happily....https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/9188-bt-consumer-announces-pause-of-digital-voice-roll-out

Gers

Effician said:

marycanary said:

Effician said:

Quite happy to turn our router off overnight, fortunately no gamers/business users/4k streaming/voip/door bells etc, yes we lose a little speed but fast enough for our needs & worth the small saving.

If you are happy with reducing the speed of your current internet package perhaps you could get a deal with lower speeds when you next change provider (assuming you are not on the lowest possible tariff at the moment). This might save more than the electricity saving from turning off each night.

We're still getting 35mbps download as opposed to 40mbps so not a great loss ( aluminium cable from box to pole limits us here) our old BT deal expires in a few weeks so will see what's available then.

I can only get 1-2mbps with a BT guarantee of 1mbps - I'm on an EO line with no prospect of anything different on the horizon. I also use an EE 4g mobile home router (owned by BT) which gives me about 70mbps.

My BT contract was up last week, I was offered a deal only a little bit more than half the price I was paying.

EssexHebridean

Gers said:

EssexHebridean said:

euronorris said:

Be aware that if you turn off your WiFi router, and have a ring doorbell (for example), it then won't work overnight. We've been broken into before, so we'll absorb the cost of keeping the router on 24/7.

Another point on this is that an increasing number of people are being switched across to voice-over-internet phone lines, and still others live in an area where they rely on "wifi calling" to boost an otherwise unreliable mobile connection. Potentially by turning the router off you are leaving yourself in a position where if you needed to call 999 in the night you may find yourself unable to do so. 

Happily....https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/9188-bt-consumer-announces-pause-of-digital-voice-roll-out

The problem is that vast numbers of people have already been switched, including in areas of the country where they are prone to frequent power cuts and have incredibly poor mobile connectivity too leaving them in a lot of cases with no service at all. They're definitely right to pause things - just a shame it took them so long! 

Florenceem

Another no spend day here.

Greenqueen_2

Re the post about leaving flip flops by the back door.
I kept a pair of very well worn out shoes that normally would only be fit for the bin, ( they had already gone through the phase of being gardening shoes), minus the laces so that I can slip them on easily. 

Living_proof

I keep a pair of Aldi garden clogs by the back door and a pair of crocs at the front. I religiously change them each time I go out. 

Slinky

Greenqueen_2 said:

Re the post about leaving flip flops by the back door.
I kept a pair of very well worn out shoes that normally would only be fit for the bin, ( they had already gone through the phase of being gardening shoes), minus the laces so that I can slip them on easily. 

When I was a child we all used to slip on a pair of Dad's old shoes when nipping outside for something quick in the garden. The shoes were kept in the open back porch. One day Dad was trying to get one of his shoes on but couldn't get his foot in. He had a look inside and a toad or frog had decided to take up residence.

Doom_and_Gloom

We have a solar and hand crank radio torch (replaced an old crank torch); only seem to be able to pick up BBC radio 4 where we live 🤣. While this is great for emergencies it also has the ability to charge phones and tablets also (though it says in a pinch). We set it in front of our back door, all glass, and let it charge up. I'm using it to charge my phone right now instead of the mains as hoping to hold off until cheap time. I know phones don't cost a huge sum to charge but I'd rather do so when cheaper.

pelirocco

sammyjammy said:

pelirocco said:

EssexHebridean said:

pelirocco said:

littlemoney said:

From what I saw yesterday there is no shortage of money and everyone can afford the increasing price of fuel. I have reached this conclusion after two 20 mile journerys along a dual carriageway. I travelled at a steady 50 mph to increase fuel economy and many cars and lorries came zooming past me doing 60 - 70 mph. No car or lorry stayed behind me for long.

No lorry was zooming past  you doing 60 - 70 miles per hour ,they are limited  by law to 56 mphb( in reality  the limiters not allow them to reach that )

Not quite true - yes what we would once have called "Heavy good vehicles" are limited to 56mph - and these days the majority *should*  be fitted with untamperable limiters, however in reality there are still ways and means of drives/operators getting around that. They will also run over that level when running downhill - 60mph is far from unliely, and even a little higher - but often a little beyond if they drop revs while going uphill as it's frequently difficult for a driver of such a vehicle to get the revs back up again to a level to get back up through the range on the gearbox. (And this is why you may have seen a truck driver get REALLY hacked off with someone pulling out in front of them and making them brake on a uphill stretch!). I reported a truck that passed us on a motorway in Scotland a couple of years ago - we were doing 68mph at the time (verified by both speedo and independent satnav - so while not 100% accurate probably no more than a mile or two out at that speed) and he sailed past us (undertaking, as well) as though we were barely moving - it was actually quite scary to see. 

Slinky said:

Spendless, I've got 2 thermos flasks, one of which has been used a lot for coffee in the past so you can't get the smell out. OH has a flask on his desk and my flask with water only gets tipped into the kettle to reheat, minimum amount at a time, to make my tea. Can't stand stewed thermos tea. I also put a small amount of water into the kettle after boiling it to take the edge off with the rest of the heat from the boiled kettle.

ETA the reason for using flasks, for us, is we have economy 7 so I fill them at cheap rate.

This reminds me, I need to go and take the soup I made yesterday out of the fridge for lunch.

This is exactly what we do on days when we're at home - as long as the kettle can be boiled first thing on the cheap rate at least. The first boil of the day is a full kettle, transfer the balance to the flask then next lot of drinks get made straight from the flask for MrEH's coffee, and a cupful back into the kettle for my tea. (At which point I have to remember I'm doing it as it boils SO fast if I'm not ready with the tea-bag I end up having to wait until the kettle will let me reboil it yet again!)

(For those banging the "just fill your mug and use the exact amount of water" drum - this doesn't work in very high-limescale areas as it's impossible to keep the kettle free of it. I have a bit of an aversion to crunchy tea-dregs... ) 

I own and run a transport company 
The poster implied many lorries were going that speed 
There are a few who probably have a tampered with their limiters  but on the whole very rare .We are constantly being monitored one way or the other the penalty is harsh

Could it be foreign lorries speeding or do they have the same limiter?  There are an awful lot of them on our roads.

All EU countries run under same strict rules
Can't answer for the rest