Just got my electric bill.

[graywarrior]

I put heat on for a few hours each night. Leave it off during the day. $145 and it's not even cold yet. We're probably looking at $400 per month. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[mrih]

1. That's a bummer

Which state?

Here in my town, we get our energy from water and are charged a pretty decent rate over what alot of others pay. My house is all electric with a heat pump and I think my highest bill ever was like $208.

I'd love to supplement some of it with Solar some day.
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[graywarrior]

6. NH

We have two electric suppliers. I have the one who charges twice as much as the other. I really need to move to Conway.

[rubberducky]

2. My DTE (elec + gas) bill is $302 monthly . On the budget!!

We will see people freeze to death this winter.

[notadmblnd]

3. I figured that too. So I got on thieer equal paymant plan for at least the winter

I had three and four hundred dollar bills last winter and didn't get caught up until April or May. My bill will be 162.00 a month at least for now. Hopefully, I can keep that up at least through the winter months.

[av8rdave]

4. Mine has been pushing $500 in the summer

Thank God for deregulation and how it benefits the consumer!

[ogneopasno]

5. Be thankful you don't have heating oil.

Cha-ching. Which is why we switched to wood.

[graywarrior]

8. We can't even get wood in the middle of god damn NH

all the wood is green. Whoever lived in our place last year used green wood so the stove is almost impossible to use even after cleaning it.

[ogneopasno]

13. Oh, no!

What a nightmare!

[remember2000forever]

7. You guys are opposite us here in Florida. $400 in the summer , now we can open up all the windows

with no AC until around May. So.....May to October is 5 months. How many months do you have to have full heat on?

[graywarrior]

12. Are you kidding me?

We never paid that much in Sarasota!

[remember2000forever]

15. Old Leaky house, Palm Beach County Prices, and I like it COLD!!!!!

[DS1]

9. I'm not looking forward to mine, either

I'll probably have to find a new job just to pay to live.

[Sedona]

10. I had to take a few trees out of my yard last spring

that were in danger of landing on the house in a storm.

I have a winter's worth of firewood now. We might have to sleep in the livingroom on a few extra cold nights this winter but it beats giving our money to the energy companies.

(Yeah it DOES get cold in the winter in Sedona at 4500 feet)

[aikoaiko]

19. Do you burn the Aligator Juniper -- when I lived in Flagstaff we get some of that for the incredible

.. incense effect.



For those of you who are wondering why they called it aligator juniper.

[Sedona]

20. pinon pines

and I really digg the swamp cooler in the summer!

[Fumesucker]

11. We saved a ton of money this summer on AC..

We live in the South, where AC is pretty much a necessity for six months per year unless you have 12 foot ceilings in a home designed for no AC. I grew up in a home like that but they are exceedingly rare nowadays.

I disconnected the central AC and ran two small window units for the hot season, kept the house nearly as cool, dehumidified even better and cut our electric bill by over 1/3. One 6500 BTU unit in our bedroom kept the bedroom very comfortable for sleeping and another 6500 BTU unit in the kitchen kept the hottest part of the house bearable even at the hottest time.

That and ceiling fans in every room made our 95 + degree and 80% + humidity days bearable.

I picked up one unit at a pawn shop a few years ago for $50, that's the one in the bedroom. The one in the kitchen I got in late Spring and it cost me $99, paid for itself in about a month.

[krispos42]

14. One of the advantages of living in an apartment, I guess

Included heat and hot water.

And my electric bill is only $50 a month.

'course, I'm still running a deficit every month... :-(

[mrih]

16. Wow, I feel real bad here.

You know, this is just one of the things the people in my region take for granted. The cost of heating and cooling our homes.

Like I said, I got some pretty decent rates. I think my lowest bill this year was like $63

My summer cooling cost was like $150 or so, I'm predicting winter to average me about $180 a month if it's a mild winter.

Couldn't imagine paying some of the prices that others do.
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[aikoaiko]

17. Its funny how its reversed in the South.

My bill is 150 dollars less for October than it was for September.

[slampoet]

18. You have Electric Heat in New Hampshire? You rent?

[earth mom]

21. My electric bill averages $150 a month & we haven't used the heater in 2 winters

because it's broken and we can't afford the 5K to 6K a new system will cost. We've been using the wood stove but I miss the ability to have heat at the touch of a button. But I just don't know if it's worth the $400 or so a month it would cost either. :(

[Pakhet]

22. Our highest electric bill this summer was $185

of course, we don't have air conditioning or even a swamp cooler (which makes it a bitch in phoenix) and we won't have heat this winter either, but we won't freeze because it doesn't get that cold. but we're contemplating a move to someplace that doesn't require and ac unit...there must be someplace like that