AIBU to be feeling bleak about bills?

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Quarterly electricity bill arrived… am actually in tears. Could people possibly share what they’re paying at the moment, just for some sort of anxiety relief that we are all in this together?

AIBU to let it get me down so much? I can’t sleep through worry.

I don’t understand some of these bills either.

family of 4
tumble dryer on every day at least 1hr
washing machine on every day
2 baths every day
1 shower
hoover on every day at least once
silent night enormous fan on every night

were at £100/m electricity and gas.

Im paying £90 a month for gas and electric on a three bed, 50% of which standing charges.

With Bulb so stuck due to their financial mismanagement 🙄

Family of 4, soon to be 5!

We pay £140 per month, we have approx £500 credit to play with for the winter.

£85 electric a month.
£35 gas

Not dissimilar to me. Last year just over 2k, BG offering £4300 to fix thro 2023. Standing charges about 80p per day.

We fixed at £240 a month at the end of last year. That’s currently building a fair cushion of credit for the winter.

Around £360 a month. It didn't help recently that one of our boys left their powerful fan on while we were on holiday last week!

The standing charge rise pissed me off

Pressed post by accident.

£85 electric.
£30 gas and in credit with gas.

family of 4.
3 bed house and I work from home.
we also run a fish tank 24/7 and have have 5 TVs on in the house that the kids seem to never turn off 😅

I had something similar via email too…

it was a bit of a joke as it wasn’t even saving me anything!!

Was 80. Then 120. Then 160 and dd is Was £275

g&e used this month 180 so banking 100 a month towards winter

if I do that April May June July august September so 6mths I’ve banked hopefully 600 towards winter

and we use about 14 a day. Not sure how some use 3/4

wondering if fish tanks use lots

£152 for 2 of us in a 2 bed terrace! Depressing totally agree.

Sounds like us

not sure why use so much

I honestly don't understand the differences in energy costs here. I have a tiny 1 bed flat. 4 radiators. Gas CH. Combined bill has gone up from £75 to £125. This will obviously increase. I'm a pensioner but get no benefits as I am just over the threshold.... but I won't have the money to pay anymore increases for energy. I literally am at my wit's end. I won't be able to afford heating in the winter. I think the government in the UK wants to kill us off.

Are you paying estimate or giving readings?

This is like us. Since the price cap has increased we have varied between £80 and £110 yet we have 2 people wfh full time and electicals including 2 computers running all day. Short of being concious to turn lighta off when leaving the room, we haven't made any other changes. And yes we are not in a deal and pay the energy cap amount. I genuinely wonder how some people manage to rack up such a bill

YANBU to feel bleak OP and sending lots of love. It’s a really difficult time, things are going to get tight and it’s miserable. I’m trying to be positive and focus on my lovely kids and the things we have but find myself preoccupied with worries regularly. We have a big mortgage and big childcare costs which we can’t reduce so it’s scary.

YANBU. Apparently some people are paying more for the standing charge than they actually are for what they use in some cases. It’s totally disgusting that the Government and Ofgem are sitting back and allowing energy companies to get away with this. The thing I take comfort from is the fact that there is no way on earth the Tories will get in act the next election and hopefully things the new Labour government will take effective action to redress the balance. I’m talking renationalisation if utility companies, high windfall taxes on companies that profiteer at the expense of consumers. Measures to make sure that big corporations cannot get out of paying their taxes etc.

We used £85 electricity and £26 gas last month including standing charge. Direct debit is around £180.
Family of 4 in a detached new build.

Our latest statement for a large 4 double bedroom house is £193.00 per month.

There’s usually at least 1 person working from home each day. At my dismay, when left alone, my husband would rather put the tumble drier on than peg the washing out. Plus, I like to have a bath twice a day. I’m pleasantly surprised by the prediction.

We’re with Shell.

I don’t understand how some of these bills are so
low. We are 5 people, 4 always home in a terrace, trying really hard to keep usage low, no tumble drier.
currently £160 a month but this doesn’t include the April rise

Electricity (eon) just gone up from £53 per month to £83, we have actually used less in the last year.

Gas (flogas) went down from £40 to £21 per month, we have credit on the gas and usually have credit on electricity at the end of the year.

3 bed detached house, 3 living here.

I put my direct debit up from £80 to £100 to build up some extra credit. My current fix ends at the end of the month and the estimated direct debit on the standard variable is £128.

I've got a smart meter, there's only me but in a 4 bed house. Out at work Monday to Friday. Currently using £32 a month gas and electric combined. 2.5kwh electric for Monday and 2.4kwh gas according to the energy hub on the website.

The heating went off at the beginning of April, it's set to come on only if it drops below 16. In winter it comes on morning and evening if it drops below 18. If I turn it "up" that means to 20 max. I got smart plugs for the TV and the lights, so the TV is never on standby. And I've hardly turned the oven on since I got an air fryer. So that cuts the usage down loads.

Sorry, but using tumble dryer when you could peg washing out and having two baths a day is just wasteful. Never mind the money, it’s bad for the bloody planet.

I just had a look and we paid and used more in a flat before so I think age of appliances can make a difference