Home square footage

[POOTERSMOMMY]

Man you all have big houses!!! I can't imagine all that space.
Ours is 900 sq.ft. (main floor), with full basement (not heated).
We pay 71 per mo. on gas (budget all year long). Elec. averages about $35 per month.

[zakity]

We are a family of 5 in a 1024 sq ft house.

The electric is $80 - 90 in the winter and $65 - 70ish in the summer. We have a well and the hot water heater and the dry is electric. I hang our laundry outside as soon as the weather hits 60F during the day.

Our gas bill is for the furnace only. It is $20 - 30 a month in the winter.

We also have a wood stove and that is what we mainly use to heat the house. We buy 2 to 4 cords of wood a year. They are about $100 a cord each (unless we can get it for free). Our little woodstove heats up the house really nicely.

[MVS0122]

Ours is about 3200 sq feet and on the budget plan we pay $91 per month for electric and $72 for gas. We built our house on a large lot with the intention of selling it after a few years, so we built it more for resale than what we would have chosen - and now we decided we love the lot too much to give it up.

[IntlMom]

WOW...BIG homes!!! Even with lots of kiddo's! Would be nice to have that much space! Don't know as I'd want to clean it, though.

I know, I actually thought about not answering this thread......I'm one of those ppl that is frugal because they WANT to be, not because I HAVE to be (sorry) ...Yea, 3900 sq ft is alot to clean. But I hate clutter, so I don;t own alot of "stuff" to clean around. And, our bsmt is finished and the boys' rooms are down there along with a huge room they use for games and playing. The downstairs, while I clean it, is certainly not as clean the upstairs. (we basically have 1950 ft on each level)

[danni]

Dh and I live in a 1100 sq ft mobile home with 5 kids, 3 cats and a large dog. Our city provides all utilities so for water, gas, electricity, sewer and garbage pickup we pay between $200-$300 per month. It's so high because the windows are single pane glass and because of the amount of people here. We have replaced about 1/3 of the windows so far and then we need to get a new furnace(this one is 35 years old).

[M55FF]

in some states and areas they count the basement and any rooms that are finsished as sq footage, and in some areas they dont.. meaning they ( the tax office) doesnt know the rooms were finished.
In my area, basements and garage space is not considered part of the living area.
This may explain the wide variance you will get in sq footage and you also have to consider if people are adding in the basement and patios, garage into the sq. footage.

Where I live people argue so much about sq footage, they hardly ever list any sq footage when selling a hiouse and only list aprox room dimensions, like
den 15x20
kichen 8x12

and many people I know have finsished out attics and garages and dont tell anyone so their property taxes dont go up.

[Edna_E]

a little over 1000. Too new to tell about normal charges yet. The previous one was about 800 and cost about 25.00 per month on average.

[FrugalMomof3]

My home not including the finished basement is 1320 sq. ft. Our electric bill is on a budget of $56 a month and heating we pay for oil. Last fill up was $500 in early February and we have about 1/2 tank + left BUT we only got like 158 gallons and that gave us about 3/4 tank, we also got it from Liheap in PA so we really didnt pay for it.

If I break it down so it's about $166 a month! WOW! I never thought about it that way, shoot that's alot! Gonna have to cut corners now with the cost of oil over $110 a barrel, yikes!

Ut oh I am gonna have to run that by my DH and tell him to put the heat down some BUT thank goodness the weather the past couple days isn't that bad (in the mid to high 40's).

[Stella]

Our house is almost 1300 square feet.
Our utility bill averages about $60-70 a month. We are half electric and half gas. We just got A/C installed last summer so I am not sure how that will affect the utilities. We really only need the A/C for a few weeks in the summer.

[duckduckgoose007]

We have 1932 sq. ft. of actual living space. We do heat the basement, but it is not finished.
We are on a Gas & Elec. budget. Up till this month it was $226 per month. Got a bill for this month...it went up to $410.07!!!!!! Haven't a clue how we will deal with that raise, we live on a fixed income.

[C@rol]

1500 sq. ft., maybe more I'm not sure.
Heating varies a little less than sometimes
more than $200 a month during heating
season.

[luv-my-lexi]

Right at 1600 sq ft. and I averaged 12 mos. with the lowest bill in the 12 mos at $48.26 and our highest at $307.31. We live in an older home and desperately need new windows. That would help tremendously. We are all electric and it averages out to approx. $160.00 month.

[qtkitty]

We live in a trailer .. its bigger then our last .. so its probubly a 14X70 or so ( AKA 900 some sq ft ) ... we have only had 2 months electric bills last one was $135 and this one is $113 ... thats all the electric together i haven't a clue what it would be specifically for heating or cooling.. since we have yet to have a month where we didn't need one or the other atleast a few days.

[Lambie]

We bought our home brand new 2 1/2 years ago....it is 1700 square feet. In the winter (we are a gas heater, hot water heater too) the average is about $115.00. Then it goes down to next to nothing and the electric for the central air kicks in at about $90.00 average. It is well insulated, thank goodness, Katy

[mom2matty]

Our home is just under 2000 sq. feet, built in 1987. I live in a very mild climate so I don't actually use heat in the winter months.....we might turn the furnace on to take the chill out in the mornings but I don't run it all day.

Summer is a different story......the AC runs nonstop! We average about $250 a month but have had bills as much as $400!!