to ask how much your electricity bill is?

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Ours has doubled in the last year to £87 a month. Is this the same for everyone? I'm wondering if I need to cut back on mumsnet time spent on laptops/ computers/ tv/ game consoles etc.

Was about to start a similar thread as have just had an email from eon upping Direct Debit payments to £166 for both gas and electricity and was a bit 😱

plasticcups £3000 a quarter!!! I would have keeled over and died! How are you supposed to find that amount of money? Did the local school hack into your supply or something?

1930s 3 bed semi. £120 a month. We have 8 fishtanks up and running though and they eat most of it. Pre fish it was £60 a month max.

I've just paid our last quarterly bill and it was £166. In the winter it can be closer to £250 a quarter.

£50 per month on a key meter. Three-bed, four people. Cheaper than where we used to live.

According to British Gas I'm paying the same rate per unit as when I was in my last house on a normal credit meter. We don't have a debt on it or ever have to use the emergency so perhaps that's true? (Would be the first true thing B.G have told me since we moved )

With gas I get charged £38 a month, but my account credit just keeps going up, even in Winter and the buggers don't give any of it back until I phone and have a go at them.

£35 for electricity and £50 for gas, for a 3 bed 1960s semi, 2 adults in it, we're not particularly mad about turning things off and I run the tumble dryer every day (I swim every week day) and normal washing at the weekends. The gas is probably a bit low, but the electric I'm in credit by about £1!

My direct debit for electric has just gone up to £96 a month. Everything's electric bar the hob and heating. There's one adult and two children in the week and an extra adult on the weekend. Very small 3 bed newish build with very drafty windows. I can not see how we can possibly use so much. The tumble drier hasn't been on for weeks, nor the heating!

Ours has just gone up from £100 to £111 a month. 3 bed terraced house. Thats with a massive fish tank running and a smaller one. Washer on at least once a day, atm tumble once a week, pc and tv on all the time as well as xbox from 7pm til about 2am (dp ) Heating/hot water is a combi boiler. Think we need to try to cut back a bit but not sure where

I am definitely being ripped off. 2 adults in a 2 bedroomed bungalow, out at work most of the time, but I can't change suppliers as I am in dispute with them.

Ours is about £40-45 per month (5 of us, electric cooker, chest freezer, 2 under counter fridges, upright freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, at least one pc on all day, not much tv, not many gadgets but quite a few power tools used frequently ).

Jesus effing god. Ours G & E was £177 pcm. Scottish power. Big 3 bed semi. 2 people.

5 of us 3 bed semi £90 month dreading the bill over 6wk hols with all of us at home!

Throckenholt who are you with if u don't mind me asking?

electricity is about £10 a month. Three bed house, water run on electricity and always on, I'm an insomniac so there's always stuff going on in the house. Gas is approx £7.50 averaged over the year for heat and cooking.

Bloody hell courgetteDOTcom, would you mind saying who you're with because that is really cheap.

£80 electric and £70 gas pcm. 4 bed detached, 5 people. Washing machine and dishwasher 1 cycle daily. It's so much, I would love to know who those payinrg less than this are with. I'm with npower.

Please come back and tell me that you meant to type £10 per week, courgette

Ours had got to £250 a month with npower! In fact we moved house partly because of this (300 yer old house build into hillside - very cold, not much natural light) Now in a 5 bed semi - 6 of us, wash/dry cycle everyday, dishwasher daily, 4 children bathed daily, assorted electrical stuff - tv/laptop/tablet/ large fridge freezer etc. We pay £180 a month, which I still think is extortionate - not sure how to reduce it though. Usually only in from 6.30am -7.45 and then 6.30pm onwards. Very glad of the sun at the moment!

£29 per month with Edf for a one bedroom flat. Hot water heated by electric and DH works shifts so its almost always on, TV etc therefore also on at random times.

I normally bully some poor sod in the call centre every January to credit me the money left over on the account as paying by DD does inflate the payments.

DD set at £47 per month but we are in credit by over £100. DH works from home so 2 computers on for at least 9 hours per day.

I think to pay £10 per month you would have to really limit your use of appliances - e.g. washing machine once a week, small fridge, not using your tv or computer very much.

Sorry, yes a week

Sounds similar to me then courgette so I'm glad to hear about the gas. We moved in March when it was freezing cold and spent about £20 p.w but I reckon if I continue to pay over £10 during the summer it should even out.