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Windup camping lights & stove
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As for a camping stove, bottled gas is expensive. Especially so for small bottles.
If it sticks, force it.
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How would you feel about cooking outside in the middle of winter? If your shed is very well ventilated I guess you could use that, but even then you’d be needing to carry food back to the house potentially through rain, snow etc to eat it assuming you didn’t want to eat outside too - I suspect this would lead to you eating a lot of cold or lukewarm food, and to getting cold more often as well, all of which would mean using more of whatever heating source to warm yourself back up again.Can you quote what your standing charges are too that they equate to £1 a day? That seems very high - have you by any chance signed up to an expensive fixed tariff?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0 -
Agreed, in the most expensive region (South Western) you can get to £0.90 / day by being on a standard credit tariff or £0.79 / day on a DD, anything above that would have to be a fixed tariff...EssexHebridean said:Can you quote what your standing charges are too that they equate to £1 a day? That seems very high - have you by any chance signed up to an expensive fixed tariff?
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Another thing to be careful of is now we have made our houses much better insulated and draft-proof compared to The Olden Days When We Had Ice Inside The Windows Every Morning And We All Knew People Who Died of TB, Pneumonia, Hypothermia etc. is damp and mould.Without the heating keeping the air dry black mould is going to become a problem.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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