Do you have a DH/DW who won’t save energy ?

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My DH isn’t interested in the energy price hike. He puts his jeans and jumper in the wash everyday. He leaves windows/doors open and says he’s cold, so turns up the heating.
It’s driving me mad, wasting money and resources.

Yes, DH leaves all the lights on even in rooms he isn't using. Its got worse since COVID and WFH.

I am that wife🙈tbf my husband doesn't bother much either...

This is me

Mine is very conscious of it but keeps lecturing me on all the things we need to do to save energy -all of which I do already but he doesn’t….

There’s certainly a lot more I could do but he’ll say things like “we need to make sure we’re shutting the porch door every time to keep the heat in”( I’ve spent the 6 years we’ve lived in this house shouting door after everyone to remind them to close it) or “we need to make sure we turn lights off when there’s no one in the room” (I’m constantly turning lights off after everyone) or “we should stop turning the tv on unless we’re actively watching something”. The last one particularly made me laugh because tv on as background noise is one of my pet hates and he knows it!

That's me 🙈

First thing in the morning I open ALL our windows then put the heating on.
If DH is at home in the morning he will go about closing the windows.
My windows are open every day of the year.

I'm kind of in the middle.

I want to save energy and do what I can to save it. But I have towels to dry and nowhere to hang them. And if my kids are cold I'm not making them put a coat on indoors.

I think energy isn't really something that you can save unless you literally have the heating on full whack, every light and every appliance in the house on and are running hot water for 24 hours a day. Its like petrol, you still need to take the car to work everyday etc.

Unfortunately, I think the solution is working out somewhere else to save money from to pay for the increases. Which doesn't actually exist for a lot of people. We're fortunate enough in that we do have luxuries we can stop to cover it. Lots of others aren't that lucky.

DH's main hobby today seems to be leaving the back door wide open repeatedly whilst grumbling about how much he spent on the food shop today and wittering on about needing to economise

Yes my DH is leaving lights on and thinks I’m ott for going mad- I have never had an issue before our electric went from £60 a month to a predicted £200+

I try to turn lights off etc. But I refuse to be cold. I'm not being cold in my own fucking home.

I don’t want to be cold either, but there’s no point opening windows and then saying you’re cold, which is what he does.

H was like this - he complained whilst sitting in pants and a t shirt that he felt cold. I sent him a screen shot of our meter readings so far - he went very quiet. I manage the household budget and said if he wants it on more then the housekeeping needs to go up or we have cutbacks. He is now wearing jumpers and trousers. As for windows they need to be open in most houses in the uk - damp prevention - I do it after the school run when heating is off.

The other way around. I'm buggered if I'm going to be cold or sit in the dark watching TV because he's got a bee in his bonnet about the bills (finances can cope).

We used to both be terrible.
Lights on. Whack heating up etc yet wear a t shirt.
Weve both tried to be more careful but me more than him. I put heating on as chilly and have a poorly dc. He's working on his car keeps leaving door wide open. I did just go out and as if we were heating the fucking street as I've closed the door at least 5 times.

Me and DH both try and avoid the heating going on or using unnecessary electricity just because that's how we were both raised

My husband hates being cold and constantly has the heating on full blast - plus fully clothed including a jumper. He's not from the UK originally and despite having lived here nearly half his life, he's never got used to cold weather.