POWER BILLS!

We are with Contact energy.

Both myself and Bruce have a shower morning and night and Neosha has a bath at night and a shower in the moring and I bath my dog every other day... maybe our expense is coming from hot water? I also was all my towels and tea towels in hot water. I think for the size of our house power isnt too bad, when we first had Neosha it was winter so we were always running a heater the power got up to $300! Bruce doesnt really care about how much it costs so oh well but i did recently recieve a notice in the mail to say that power had gone up.

And here I paid my highest bill and thought that was high. $120. In summer it ranges from about 60 to 80 and winter it goes up to about 110.

We dont use the tumble dryer in summer. When I use the oven I bake at the same time. Stews and stuff I just make more and freeze as it generally takes a few hours or so.

We dont have a dishwasher or heated towel rails. I found when we have visitors that they just dont have common sense when it comes to power and then it goes up.

Prime example my MIL has made soup today on the stove and not in the slowcooker and now have it on low heat to keep warm for 2 hours until Grant comes.

Now I would have made the soup and then switched the stove off and then just heat it up in the microwave.

We are with Contact Energy

Ours vary from month to month but it usually around $190 on a good month and $320 on a bad month this is for 2 adults and 1 child.