OMG!!! Our electric bill.....

[lovemyshiba]

is $467.55

[micki76]

OUCH! What happened?

[Tonya]

For the past few months, right!? Ours is usually $100-$200.

[lovemyshiba]

Nope, 1 month!!!

I have never had one over $100 in my life. I freaked out when I opened the envelope!!!!
With the temps dropping under 0 a few nights in the past couple of weeks, we have had all of the heaters on (electric heat)--one in each bathroom (2), one in each bedroom (4), and one in the basement, and one in the living room--total of 8, and our front door wasn't sealed very well to begin with, so I suspect a lot of warm air was seeping out that way (but it has been fixed).

We also recently just put a couple of air filters up, and someone said they really suck a lot of electricity They work wonderfully with 4 dogs around though!!

As soon as I opened the bill, I ran around the house turning everything off--I would rather wear 5 sweaters and 8 pairs of socks, then have that kind of surprise greeting me again!!!!

[Tonya]

Wow! I can't believe that! When we used to have our bearded dragons, we would get high bills. Mike was always real particular about the dragons getting all this special fancy lighting.

[Uabassoon]

I am so thankful that my rent includes my utitlites, I would be scared to have seen my electric bill this summer. For the first time I had an actual air conditioner instead of a swamp cooler so I had the a/c set up so that my apartment was freezing! I have a feeling I had a pretty high electric bill because shortly after I moved in the apartment stopped offering free utilites to new people moving in!

[lizbud]

OMG is right. I would be in total shock.

I have Gas heat, but of couse it still uses electricity to run. My
bills have been much higher this season, but not that high.
Does your utility offer a budget plan? You would pay the same
amount every month, winter & summer. WOW.....

[catnapper]

We've had that before too... but our gas is included... is yours? We have three teenagers that are allergic to turning off their lights and radios... they will be home alone and we'll pull into the driveway and see every light and tv on in the house. They leave for shcool leaving lights and tvs on! I now understand why my dad was always yelling about lights left on!

[Cookiebaker]

Wow!! That really hurts a month's budget!

[mugsy]

WOW!! that's pretty ouchy! I hope it doesn't do that again!

[Dogz]

One word: Ouch!

[RICHARD]

Our bill would fluctuate drastically until we found out that
they do a projection/average when they bill.

On the days the meter reader could not/would not get in to read the meter they would guesstimate the bill based on what we used the year before.

That may be a reason why....

[G.P.girl]

OUCH!
i don't know how much ours usually is, but i doubt it's that much.It's always higher in the winter though.
maybe you had the computer on too much and were on PT too much

[Denyce]

Ouch Emily,

What type of electric heat are you using? Are you using the baseboard heaters? Because those are outrageously expensive. Go over to Wal-mart and get several of those ceramic portable heaters. We used to use those exclusively and the worst bill we had was about 250. The baseboard heaters just oooze the warm air out..while the little ceramic ones blow the warm air into the room. Just with the dogs make sure they are ones that turn off when tipped over. VERY IMPORTANT feature.

This last summer we had central air and heat put in our home and love it. It uses oil heat and our bills have dropped dramatically. It should pay for itself in about 5 years or so. We now have about 80 dollar a month electric and 60 dollar a month oil. And that is with the electric stove, hot water heater and dryer.

Denyce

[Cincy'sMom]

We used to get gas bills like that all the time in college. We lived in a 3 story row house in Cincinnati that I think had no insulation. even with that bill our house was always freexing!! Luckily, it was split 5 ways! Thankfully, our bills are nothing like that now, although running the A/C in the summer makes the electric a bit high