AIBU to go to a hotel tonight as we have no heating

[buckingfrolicks]

DP is responsible for ensuring we have gas for our large, old and fucking freezing house. It is already 2 degrees out there and dropping.

He tells me this morning that we have run out, completely, and gas is coming tomorrow 'sometime'.

We have a coal fire in two rooms - that's it. No electric heaters.

We have 2 older teen DCs one of whose BF's is coming over for them to cook a valentine meal - on what? The fucking coal fire? There is NO GAS so the cooker doesn't work. I can't even get a cup of fucking tea.

AIBU to want to fuck off to the nearest hotel with the DCs and send him the bill?

Well, I grew up in a house with only one gas fire in the living room, and we were so fucking cold we could hardly sleep in winter fine, so surely you can manage with what you have just for one night and part of tomorrow.

People are so tedious about so-called drip feeding round here. Guess what, people are fallible, they might forget something in their original post. Get over it.

They might forget something in their opening post, of course. Perfectly understandable, happens all the time. I hardly ever notice drip feeding, let alone mention it.

HOWEVER, this op omitted to mention that they have no electricity in the house. I really don't believe she just forgot that tiny fact. The vast majority of people have replied assuming that she does have electricity (after all, it must be extremely rare not to have in 2016) ... and so the thread until the big reveal is just a plain waste of everyone's time. And of course, many people don't bother to rtft or the updates, and are still replying in the same way.

no electricity? Organised enough to charge the phone, though! If someone is online it is perfectly reasonable to assume they have electricity.

off-grid means planning and thinking.

and those of you who are running out of oil - you're mucking up your boiler. Get things checked properly.

I could cope with no heating for a night or two but I couldn't cope with no electricity. What about the fridge and freezer?

Hope you can heat up enough water for tea and hot water bottles.

You see ensuring that you and your children can stay warm as being the responsibility of someone else?? That just doesn't make sense to me. There are two adults in the marriage, and your kids shouldn't have to be cold just because you can't be bothered to do something that you think is man's work. You should both keep checking on the gas and work as a team.

When I said run out of oil, I meant that the tank was that low that we daren't put the heating on. It's not totally run out. Boilers fine, I have a mechanic husband and an engineer father who look after it well.

OP did not say she had no electricity. However, if you have off-grid electricity stored in batteries, you cannot use energy intensive appliances such as kettles, heating and so on. You can have lights, computers, fridges, freezers and so on.

I am currently on wifi, fridge and freezer running, lights on. If someone were to put on a kettle the electricity would cut out (inverter protecting the batteries).

You need a biolite camping stove. It's filled by sticks, had a kettle, pan etc, and even charges your phone and a light

www.biolitestove.com/

thank god someone understands Liara that's exactly what it is. The sacred inverter, that must be given enough work, but not too much... We simply don't have electric kettles in case temptation gets too much!

It is not man's work, Harsh, far from it - there is a long and tedious saga which comes down to our having peculiar ideas about being individuals and so forth, which works fine, mostly. Or doesn't, depending on how I'm feeling about it all.

But the practical ideas have been terrific thank you - and I've bought a biolitestove which looks fab!

I live in the States, and know many people who have no heat upstairs with You sleep under many blankets in your coat, and dress half under the covers. Get takeout and manage.

I was brought up off grid and have retained many habits from that time. Most notably the ability to go to the loo at three a.m. down two corridors, a flight of stairs and through two rooms both of which had sleeping twit dogs and cats in them. In the dark, by feel.

Also to return that way via the kitchen window after a particularly good night out when I was in sixth form/university.

Although my dad did catch me on the kitchen windowsill one morning when I'd pushed it past 6 a.m.

I grew up in a shitty flat with no central heating and an electricity key meter that kept on running out so we were frequently without electricity until we put money in the meter. Poor family we were.

We had to boil kettles to wash and use candles as a routine.

I'm alive and kicking today.

Hotel is a bit dramatic for one night when you have a charged phone but whatever.