Re: utility costs was: Another Question/Elephant Ears

They tend to snuggle a bit more in winter.
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] utility costs was: Another Question/Elephant Ears


> EEEK! Marge that is sheer robbery! Do you hold up banks in your spare
time?
> Kitty - thank goodness cats have fur coats!
>
>  On 9/20/05, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center <
> 4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh Marge, that's terrible, I could never manage those costs.
Fortunately,
> > as one person I can set the thermostat for 60 and the cats can't get
their
> > paws on it.
> >
> > Kitty
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] utility costs was: Another Question/Elephant Ears
> >
> >
> > > Well, Kitty, I've got oil heat on a budget plan that has doubled in
> > > cost in the last 2 years and leaped up middle of last year AFTER I'd
> > > gotten my budget plan for the year - that invoice was a shocker -
> > > their prices went up so much they had to raise ours. Our deal is a
> > > budget that gets sorted out in June/July and you either have a higher
> > > budget for the next year if you have used more than the budget
> > > covered or pay the difference then to keep the next year's budget
> > > number down. That difference can be hard to come up with after a
> > > hard winter. If you want to feel good about the cost of your
> > > utilities, try $465/month for heating oil alone. Electric is
> > > separate and keeps going up as well. Water and propane for the
> > > cooktop are also separate but billed quarterly. Combined, they make
> > > me long for solar, geothermal, a well or any other means of producing
> > > light, heat and water that don't require forking out so much moola!
> > > If I had the wherewithal, I would get immediately get solar panels to
> > > create electricity as a first step and a geothermal system to help
> > > with heating, but that's a major pipe dream.
> > >
> > > My DH is at the point in life where he's always cold and jacking up
> > > the thermostat while I go around after him turning it down and
> > > telling him to add clothes...he sits wrapped up in blankets if it's
> > > 70F in here - summer/winter. As he basically spends his time sitting
> > > in his chair, he feels colder than he would if he were moving around
> > > at all; does not help the heating oil bill at all.
> > >
> > > A friend gave me a woodstove and I have to get someone to install it
> > > in this fireplace I have off the kitchen that otherwise we never use
> > > because it doesn't draw right. Need to get that done NOW - might be
> > > able to hold down the oil use come winter. Have lots of wood that
> > > "just" needs chopping into stove size bits, so could feed it and get
> > > a lot of exercise at the same time:-)
> > >
> > > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > > mtalt@hort.net
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> > > ----------
> > > > From: Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> > > >
> > > > I had a fairly high water bill too. Fortunately, my gas (heat,
> > > water heater,
> > > > dryer, stove) is on an 8 month budget from October to May, then I
> > > pay actual
> > > > in summer when it's only about $15. The water bill, which is next
> > > to
> > > > nothing during the gas budget months, balances things out in
> > > summer.
> > > >
> > > > Kitty
> > >
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