Getting the balance right

skint_spice

Just to let you know Elantan hasn’t gone rogue and headed off into the sunset spending wildly - she’s been having problems logging into MSE.

elantan

Well here's hoping this is me back, passwords are a pain in the backside 

Nowt much happening here still working away, I have a new quote in for £757 monthly for my gas and electricity, ermmm that'll be a no as well then. 

Hope everyone is good   

edinburgher

Oh my el 

elantan

yep, hope your fixed for another year or so Ed ? 

I'm out of my fix in September .   it will be wood burning stoves and candles for us 

I think I'm really glad we bought the type of wood burning stoves you can cook on 

Karmacat

Good grief!  I haven't heard anything from my supplier yet - if thats the kind of thing they're doing, I'm not sure I want to!

elantan

Karmacat said:

Good grief!  I haven't heard anything from my supplier yet - if thats the kind of thing they're doing, I'm not sure I want to!

we run out of our fixed rate at the end of September, it's our new fixed rate offer, we will barely be putting the lights on and very rarely have the heating on I reckon, 

edinburgher

Martin looked like he was about to lose his !!!!!! on TV this morning!

We've got 9 months of normality left, then suspect Mrs E will need to cut her pension to the bare minimum for the match. That will save 300 massively begrudged pounds a month. Not sure where the other £100 or so will come from. Feels like the tide is going out on FIRE as a concept unless you're on £££,£££

savingholmes

Very hard for many to cope with such high energy bills. 

Is that a per month rate El??? I couldn't cope with that at all!!

elantan

edinburgher said:

Martin looked like he was about to lose his !!!!!! on TV this morning!

We've got 9 months of normality left, then suspect Mrs E will need to cut her pension to the bare minimum for the match. That will save 300 massively begrudged pounds a month. Not sure where the other £100 or so will come from. Feels like the tide is going out on FIRE as a concept unless you're on £££,£££

I saw an interview with him on you tube, he looked so worn down tbh, my heart went out to him. Hopefully it settles down soon Ed and you wont have to sacrifice things 

elantan

savingholmes said:

Very hard for many to cope with such high energy bills. 

Is that a per month rate El??? I couldn't cope with that at all!!

Yep that's per month, thankfully @skint_spice gave me a link to Martin's site to check out how it will affect me, so for us were up to  £429 which is still well over the £3.5k quoted but it isnt as bad as the £757,  we deff plan on using the fires for heating and cooking, probably heating water etc as well. We will up our DDM but not by too much, I cant afford even the £429 so will need to cut back