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Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

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  • Makingabobor2
    Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,224 Forumite
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    Good Evening Peeps,
    it is pouring down here but I'm a bit happy so it can continue to fill the water butts that have a double job to do. We use this water to flush the loo and water the garden. We are in a bungalow so not carrying a bucket up any stairs. Each time we got our water bill I would be in competition with trying to keep it as low a cost as possible. This evening whilst at a friends we got talking about the water bill. Her bill is nearly £1000  :o a widow living on her own. (Her DH passed away just 2 years ago and it was he who did all the bills all their married life. She has never looked at the account where the money goes from.) I said a meter would be a lot cheaper. She rang the company and was advised that she would be saving over £500 a year by using a meter and has 2 years to try it out with an option of a further 2 years if needed. Looks like we have more work to do to stop the leak of £s from her bank account in the meantime.
     I said to DH I won't be moaning about ours being £250pa again and those buckets will continue being dragged in the house  o:) 

    Hope that the poorly pets soon recover. 

    2 Scratters xx
    Never thought about using water from the butts to flush the loo. Does it work well?
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,524....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 
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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,391 Forumite
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    Bless Soot wanting to help pay his bills by opting for the cheaper food, so decent of him 
  • Blackcats
    Blackcats Posts: 3,897 Forumite
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    I think I'm doing the same study as you.  Finding it very interesting and payment is good.
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