Total Utilities Cost

[Budgetmom]

What is your total utilities cost per month? Water, sewer, trash, recycling, Electric, natural gas/heating oil/other. All total, what does it average out to per month?

[freedeal]

Water (sewer, trash, recycling) are all together $47 (we live in the city so this includes garbage and yard waste pickup). They also pick up old furniture, etc. you just have to call and they put you on the list.

Electric -this is about $100 per month normally (this month it is down to $72)

Natural Gas $15- $45 - we have a gas hot water heater and gas logs in the fireplace. So in the summer it is lower and winter higher.

Total is just under $200 on the high months and about $150 or so on the low months.

[Lmullin]

Gas which heats the house and heats the water is 171/month (we're on a budget plan, so the 171 is every month of the year.)

Electric is (trying to keep it) just under 50/month

Water is 100 every six months

[danni]

Our city provides everything including the gas and electric so it all comes in one bill. Right now we pay $150-$200 in the summer months and $200-$300 in the winter months. We live in an older mobile home with original windows, but next month we are replacing windows, skirting and siding. We are also adding extra insulation behind the skirting and siding. That should knock our bill down quite a bit. Next year we will be replacing the original furnace with a high efficiency one, so the bill will hopefully drop next year too.

[frugalfoster]

In the winter we pay $200 for natural gas....$175 for electric.....In the summer the natural gas goes to less than $15 and the electric is still at least $135 garbage is only $15 a month and water usually comes to $60 a month....3 kids still at home....they love the lights and hot water!!!!!

[halloweenfreak]

water/trash/sewer/hospital tax= approx. 60-65 a month

electric= use to run 200 but im getting it down to the 170's

natural gas= summer usually around 30 during the winter 50-55

[banana]

Let' see:

Water/Sewer approx 120 every 3 months so $40 a month
Garbage - $23 a month
Electric - Budget amount is $88 a month
Oil - Heat/Hot Water $1,235 so approx $103 a month

Monthly total for all utilities = $254 a month!

Now if the oil prices would only go lower my utility bill would be more tolerable!

[peanut]

Water/sewer/garbage - ~$35-40cdn./mth.
Electric - ~ $70/mth
Natural gas (heating) - ~$100/mth.

Total = $205 - 215/mth.

But we aren't on equal billing, so this can actually be quite a range. In winter electric and gas go way up. Sometimes we pay $250/mth. for heat. In summer the water bill goes up.

Jean

[Budgetmom]

We are on budget billing for everything, so $135 for water/sewer/electric. This is all supplied by our town. $78 Natural Gas, which heats our home & water heater. $16 for Waste Management.

Monthly Total: $229

I'm hoping to get our budget billing amounts adjusted down the next time they evaluate, but am doubting it. It seems like everytime I reduce our consumption, the rates go up.

[frugalnana]

Sewage is $65 a month.
Water about $35 to $42 a month
ELectric is $169 a month
Garbage is $16.99 a month If we have any items over 4 garbage cans and 2 Garbage bags. We get charged an aditional $10
Our home is all electric so no gas bill.
We pay $14.99 a month for the water heater through American water heater.

[guest32]

Gas, electirc, water, garbage, sewer....totals about 250.00 a month. We are on average monthly billing, so it stays the same year round. Our house is pretty large, and we run the pump for the pond year round...so I'd say it's reasonable looking at what everyone else is paying. Oh...and our irrigation is about 75.00 per year. We water our lot with irrigation, not city water, we have 1/2 acre.

[chatterweb]

This is a real eye opener for me!

Home #1:

gas/electric $60.00
water bill #1 $33.18
water bill #2 $31.26
trash/sewer we pay in property taxes
Total: $124.44

Home #2:
gas disconnected until rented
electric: $25.49
sewer: $16.34
water:$21.91
trash service is stopped for now while vacant
Total: $63.74

Grand Total: $188.18

[DorothyBeverly]

Water bill--$44/month
Trash bill--$54/every three months
Natural gas heat (vectren)budget billing--$61/month
DPL(electric)usually runs around $50/month, higher when we use the A/C

So average is anywhere from $200-$250

[treeluva]

Here, I dont pay for those things, since I am in Government Military Housing....

But, when I was in Oklahoma, these were my averages

Electric - 89 a month, Average monthly plan.. it was way cheaper in the winter, but to compensate for the summer months when it was way higher, I just paid that each month... now, when i started the plan, it was only 65 a month. I sorta started forgetting to turn the lights off.

Gas - 13 in the summer, 100 in the winter

water, 45 a month, which included trash - it was 45 every month, even the month I forgot the sprinkler was turned on to water the grass for 5 hours.

So, overall, I didnt think that was bad,

[NoDebtMom]

We are all electric, have the budget down to $89/mo
Water/sewer- 35-40/mo
no gas
garbage- 22 every 2 months