Thursday, April 17, 2014

Our electric bill went way down...

Now some might say that's great, and don't get me wrong, because it really is.
The problem is that we have no idea how that happened?
Since we have not signed up for any discount programs or brown out options and usage use type things that Florida Power and Light might have on their menu.

The only time those discounted programs work is when you have a family of more than two at home and work and have a lifestyle that doesn't require you to be in on the weekends when they used to suggest to do laundry and nights or early in the wee hour mornings, or you don't have a medical issue that without air-conditioning or heat affects your well being for a few hours, ya know?
Or have a financial need.

And these days we don't meet any of those criteria and for that last one we never did.

Sure when we were all out of the house for hours at a time, or had tons of laundry that needed to be done for us and our little darlings as often as can be!

We are pretty much home bodies these days, and you all know that, and why.

So we run our utilities for our needs whenever they need to be run for this or that, so that is why this much lower bill is baffling and we would both love to know how we did do it to recreate it every month!

If anything we have been eating at home more, and our whole home is electric including our oven and stove, water heater, washer and dryer and air-conditioning and heater...
Nothing has changed.
I do laundry when we need it, and that is when our hamper is full.
It is not that big, and we usually have two loads, one white and one darks, and then of course sheets weekly.

That is why I am mystified.

Ah, sweet mysteries of life...

Now with this tiny house we have had bills higher than two hundred a few times, and this place is only 1100 square feet, but mostly they have been about fifty or seventy-five dollars a month less than that, but the bill that just came was ONLY a little over ninety-seven bucks!

In our larger homes we had three to four hundred a month bills in those all electric homes, which most expect but that was nearly twenty years ago also... when things were cheaper and we did subscribe to a timer on the water heater and some brownouts trying to manage those higher bills.
Wouldn’t it be great to repeat that lower bill monthly?

One month our water and sewer was around seventy-two bucks, normally around eighty-two, but a couple of times over one hundred!
Mostly due to having to refill the pool or pond due to evaporation, but then it has to be really low to go that high got that?

Taxes go up , rarely down, but ours actually have due to the housing market, but just a little, which helps with insurances that we must always have like homeowners/hurricane and of course we have flood and even sinkhole! Not to mention boat and car of course!

It all adds up, so when something has the good sense to go down in cost, I want to know how to clone it and to continue it that sounds fair, hmm, wouldn’t you?

On that mystifying note, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all kindly to count your blessings and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, ya hear!



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