Electric Bill for Jan.

[baxjul]

Got it down to $120.00. Should go down more with longer days ahead!

[YankeeMom]

WTG!!
Our bill was about $258 this month (we have a VERY large, VERY old house). But our budget plan has us paying $275. The nice thing is we are about halfway through the heating season and we still have a balance in our favor of about $200 and it will go up another $27 this month

[banana]

You guys are doing great!

[YankeeMom]

Forgot to add, our bill is electric & natural gas combined

[Buckeye5]

My electric bill was $132.oo, doesn't include our heat or hot water.

[Megareader]

We are on the level payment plan, ours is $90 per month.

[PplAmanda]

I won't get my Jan usuage bill until about 1/28/07, which should cover 12/22- 1/21. I was suprised that my Dec bill was 59.03, until I remembered that my Christmas lights were plentiful enough to blind pilots flying at 30,000 feet
I don't sign up for the levelized billing because I like to actually fork out the real amount I use each month. Makes me remember to turn off the lights and unplug stuff
On a side note, I have cut my elec bill by almost half the amount of last year. CFLs, and being very conservative really pays off.

[Amanda W]

Awesome job everyone. We're on the level payment plan, and we've gotten it down to $82 a month from the $99 a month we were paying last summer before I discovered FV!

[Neeley]

Our power company called it "budget billing" - I assume it is the same concept as your level billing. Our house is total electric and we pay $251 a month.
On a side note, I got a nice surprise today though. Last month when I was out of town my mom got all of my mail and paid my power bill for me. She did no tell me anything about it. I was talking to her telling her I had not gotten my bill but that was ok since the amount and due date don't change so I will just go pay it this week. She finally tells me she paid it for me. I offered it back to her but she said no - just concider it an extra Christmas gift. The money I was going to pay power bill with is going to our savings account.

[banana]

Wow Neeley - That is great! You have a wonderful mom!

[FrugalWitch]

I'm on budget billilng and mine is $65.00 a month. House is all electric except for the heaters, they are propane.

[McD]

Our is elec. and gas combined. it was 242! I almost cried, we really can't afford to pay that. I got us put on budget billing so it will be 140$ next month.

Part of the problem was the furance...which has now been fixed

[sk8mom]

Our bill was $187.65 and we are on the budget plan. Unfortunately, it went up $80 a month because in the winter of 2005/2006 we didn't use our woodstoves and used mostly electric. This winter we've been really good and been using our woodstoves so hopefully next year it will go down again. I really like the budget plan because I know exactly what I'm paying every month and it makes it easy for me to budget and there are no surprise bills.

[melina123]

Our electric bill went up from $91.83 to $103. I try SO hard. We don't even own a dryer!!

Well, now I'll start the challenge with myself to reduce the bill for next month!

Melina

[rebecca]

My electric bill was $81.71. This includes water, sewer, garbage, and the electric. Last year at this time it was $90.10.