Am I delusional?
Apart from not having baths I love, I do nothing as for now not save money on bills.
We don’t have heating on as we don’t need it now, our small 2 bed property is warm enough at the moment and I work outside of home and everyone else in the family is out for the day. However I do boil my kettle every time I want it, I cook when I need and use tumble dryer once a week when I don’t have time to dry things naturally. Am I going to be hit with a gigantic bill? As of today my direct debit reduced to a couple of pounds due to help from the government (£64 a month for every household?). Account is also in credit since summer. I just don’t have the energy to think about the energy. I guess I’m still delusional?
AIBU?
Do nothing to save energy AIBU
Iknowforsure1 · 05/10/2022 22:07
Am I being unreasonable?
130 votes. Final results.
POLLLcb123 · 05/10/2022 22:15
I’m the same! Our direct debit has gone from £100 to £50 from this month, I don’t really get why everyone is worrying? We rarely use heating as live in 2-bed flat on 2nd floor so get a lot of sun light and benefit from neighbours heat! Don’t have tumble dryer anyway, and only 2 adults so only 1-2 loads of laundry per week.
Lcb123 · 05/10/2022 22:15
I’m the same! Our direct debit has gone from £100 to £50 from this month, I don’t really get why everyone is worrying? We rarely use heating as live in 2-bed flat on 2nd floor so get a lot of sun light and benefit from neighbours heat! Don’t have tumble dryer anyway, and only 2 adults so only 1-2 loads of laundry per week.
Lcb123 · 05/10/2022 22:15
I’m the same! Our direct debit has gone from £100 to £50 from this month, I don’t really get why everyone is worrying? We rarely use heating as live in 2-bed flat on 2nd floor so get a lot of sun light and benefit from neighbours heat! Don’t have tumble dryer anyway, and only 2 adults so only 1-2 loads of laundry per week.
Iknowforsure1 · 05/10/2022 22:58
@BattenburgDonkey
I never lived in a bigger property. I’m not originally from the UK and flat living is a norm where I’m from. Is switching the hitting on only in certain rooms an option for bigger properties? I guess it’s probably the size of a family more than a size of property that’s the factor in bigger usage?
Dirtylittleroses · 05/10/2022 23:02
Op,are you really skint or something? It costs about a penny a time to boil a kettle and it costs about 20 quid a year to watch the telly. The bug cost is heating your home, you don’t do this, you’ve already cut it to the bone, unless there is a back story here about you being really struggling then it’s hard to understand your issue?
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