Utilities on the Up & Up

Imagine for a minute living in a huge house with all your favorite amenities. Ranging from a heated pool, hot tub, jacuzzi in the master bath, big screen tv, central heating and a/c, washer and dryer, dishwasher, latest fridge, and an electric oven. Now, imagine that electric bill. Pretty high huh, maybe close to $200 a month?

Now imagine a one bedroom apartment. Imagine it with an older fridge, a stove from the seventies, a water heater that is not even in the unit, and a LCD tv and a wii, finally, wall heaters. Living in a small apartment such as this, in an older building with pretty solid walls there is no need to use the heaters unless you are losing heat through the windows. To combat this, put a piece of cardboard between the two window panes and you find a lot more heat stays in your apartment. So... With the heater breakers turned off, everything unplugged but the refridgerator and tv, what do you think your electric bill would be now?

Try...$121.

Not even kidding. This was our electric bill for January. We have had some problems with our fridge freezing food, and not even getting cold. After numerous fixes it is finally working how it should! A tub with a constant stream of hot water leaking no matter how tight you have turned off the faucet may cause the water heater to continuously heat water as well... No one told us that! After loosing tons of groceries to the bipolar fridge, and lots of wasted hot water, our bill kept moving higher and higher. After further investigation, we were able to reduce our rent due to our problems with the appliances!

Thank goodness for understanding power companies!

Next bill...<$50 would be appreciated!

Hope you are all having better luck!