2026 - consolidation and calm

jwil

Happy September! I can't believe it's the end of Summer.

I've been out with the kids this morning, so that was good. I'm still keeping up with surveys, so hopefully will have some extra PADs soon.

We were credited a whole 93p for our free hour of electricity. That was with us trying to do all the high energy stuff, including charging the car. It seems a lot of effort for not much reward! We're not high users generally though, and don't really use a lot at the peak times. We'll still take part though where we can.

jwil

PAD (Payment a Day)

Today's PAD - £4

Jan - £172

Feb - £203

Mar - £143

Apr - £67

May - £108

Jun - £188

Jul - £78

Aug - £142

Sep - £4

Car balance Sept 25 - £11,031 - now £6,946

joedenise

Just checked my account and we've been credited with the whole 14p! Problem is we have solar panels so when the weather's been as good as it has been we don't actually use very much electric anyway. We used much more during the 2 hours we had free including washing machine and tumble dryer! Also had the oven on all of which use a decent amount of power.

jwil

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82121927#Comment_82121927

Try not to spend it all at once! 😂 I'd love solar panels. In our free hour we had the car on charge, the WM on, all devices charging and 3 x showers. We didn't use the TD as it was a nice sunny day anyway so it didn't seem right. We did use it on our session this weekend though, so it will be interesting to see if it makes a difference.

We have a gas cooker, and I tend to do all the heavy using stuff in the day or early morning, so when the saving sessions are running it's generally only the TV, playstation and computer on anyway unless the car is on charge (only generally once a week or less) or the TD is on. We don't have much scope for turning stuff off. DH won't be parted from the TV, so it's just about whether I can persudade little jwil off the PS for our savings.