View Full Version : What is your most expensive utility?


homesteadmamma
03-25-2005, 01:03 PM
Ours is heating our home, which is done my natural gas. This past month, I was able to bring it down by $56 but still not low enough for me.

QuilterMom
03-25-2005, 01:07 PM
Electricity, but it's far cheaper than natural gas here (I know it's just the opposite for most people).

jlxian
03-25-2005, 02:28 PM
Propane. We fill our 500 gallon tank about 2x a year and it always horrifies me to write that check. Last time we filled the tank was in November. We paid $1.42 a gallon which included a 10 cent discount if we paid within 5 days. It was over $500.

We heat with propane and our hot water tank is propane. But we also burn a lot of wood for heat which cuts down our propane usage. I guess this will just continue to go up in price.

Mamawolf
03-25-2005, 02:54 PM
Electricity. So glad to not be a gas user here right now!

SewCrafty
03-25-2005, 03:00 PM
I don't really know, Jack takes care of the bills. But I think it is electricity.

PrairieRose
03-25-2005, 03:03 PM
Our home is heated with natural gas (along with our hot water heater and stove top and oven), that's our biggest utility. :(

Katybird
03-25-2005, 03:39 PM
My home is total electric so that is my highest utility. We had natural gas before we bought this and I think that the electricy is a bit cheaper than the gas was to heat with.

Missy
03-25-2005, 04:18 PM
natural gas. i'd love to switch over to all electricity.

seadream
03-25-2005, 11:13 PM
heating..our heat and hot water run off the oil furnance..

thrifty gal
03-25-2005, 11:19 PM
Electricity.

Mom23boys
03-26-2005, 01:30 AM
Electricity!! Everything we have uses electricity to run....stove, oven, dryer, air/heat, etc.

I have tried to keep it down, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Hollyhandi
03-26-2005, 07:24 PM
Electricity is way high here.

Mommy2five
03-27-2005, 05:22 AM
We live in goverment housing so we don't pay electric or water. We are getting RIPPED OFF for phone though. There is only one provider they will allow on post and I pay over $120 monthly atleast, a few months ago it was almost 160 because of the exchange rate . A local call isn't even free here. It costs extra to call a cell phone too. It costs more for me to call my husband at work 20 miles away than it does for me to call the states :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:

rebecca
03-27-2005, 07:40 AM
Electric.

Dotchi
04-09-2005, 06:34 PM
Our water is well water and we take our trash to the dump (no trash service here) so electricity... $133 equal payment plan. But if you count in gasoline for vehicles, I pay $170 every two weeks for gas to drive to and from work. It works out to $14 a day in gas, round trip.

Heather
04-09-2005, 07:23 PM
Heating...the price of furnace oil this year was so high!:(

debbiepittman
05-06-2005, 06:27 PM
Usually, it's the electricity though gas gets higher a few months in winter.

Debbie

fearoflight
05-06-2005, 06:56 PM
Usually, it's the electricity though gas gets higher a few months in winter.

Same here in Maryland.

beach_mom
05-06-2005, 07:02 PM
Electricity here :(

bamamomto4
05-16-2005, 03:32 AM
Electricity..just paid a power bill and it was $118...down from $148 last month :D

We do have a propane tank and get 100 gallons once a year and that last us all winter and then some of the next.We use it only when it's really cold or the power goes out...It's just our back up heat source.

Mamawolf
05-16-2005, 09:19 AM
Originally posted by Mommy2five
We live in goverment housing so we don't pay electric or water. We are getting RIPPED OFF for phone though. There is only one provider they will allow on post and I pay over $120 monthly atleast, a few months ago it was almost 160 because of the exchange rate . A local call isn't even free here. It costs extra to call a cell phone too. It costs more for me to call my husband at work 20 miles away than it does for me to call the states :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:

Wow, that's crazy!! That'd be a situation where I'd consider replacing the house phone with a cellphone. Or even the new vonage. If you have DSL, you can use vonage as your phone service for like $25/month including long distance.

TwirlingRainbowSky
05-16-2005, 01:34 PM
Gas in the winter and electric in the summer.

Mojjo
05-18-2005, 11:02 PM
ours is phone...we are a cell only family...but electricity is a close second.

Mojjo
05-18-2005, 11:02 PM
phones here...although we are a cell only home...but electricity is a close second

Mojjo
05-18-2005, 11:02 PM
ours is phone...we are a cell only family...but electricity is a close second.

mom22grls
05-19-2005, 12:24 AM
Gas in winter & elect in summer. Last month, elect was almost 80 & gas was 40.

baxjul
05-19-2005, 02:20 PM
Our house is all natural gas for now. It will be all electric in FL.

Michele Annette
05-19-2005, 06:47 PM
Furnace oil for us too was our most expensive utility. I'm glad we don't have to use any of the oil after heating season, but still!