Strange things you're not used to

[StillThePrettiest 3]

henc henc

I always typo 'love' for 'live'! I've lost count of how many times I've referred to the 'loving room'

(which is, of course, far less interesting than you might think )

damn your quickness, Krikit! I thought I'd caught that in time

Edited August 20, 2008 by StillThePrettiest

[*julez* 124]

krikit, the "create" is an inside joke for us July 07 filers....there was one member who consistently spelled crate "CREATE"....she was so indignant thet VSC was messing with her life by keeping her petition in a CREATE indefinitely! So we just keep beating it to death, just for fun!

[StillThePrettiest 3]

wha? it's NOT spelled that way?

[*julez* 124]

go back to your own CREATE StP....stop messing with our *LIVES*

[Jeraly 4]

Wow - cheap electricity!!

hmm, I feel all slighted!

it's not that cheap - mid range for here; about 19c per kilowatt hour - I put our low bills down to my energy saving ways

we don't have an electric clothes dryer - it's one of my pet hates that in a part of the country which is as hot as Hades and everyone has a massive backyard everyone wrecks the environment by running electric dryers for hours, so I refuse to have one, and hang all our washing out, on the back patio on the sunny days (99% of the time) and in the spare room when it's rainy (today )

apparently hanging clothes outside is 'trailer trash', but I thumb my nose at that... what a crock; we all have a duty to do better environmentally, and that's one thing that's easy (here, at least, though I also managed to dry my clothes in an 8ft by 7ft bedroom in London, so I suspect it's possible anywhere )

and I keep the aircon at 84 or 85... occasionally we put it lower, if we're really feeling it, but otherwise we just don't need to live in a fridge

we're pretty good with other things too, but those are our main savings, I think... a guy in our subdivision told us he paid $570 for electricity in June

I just... couldn't work out how you could do that...

I totally refuse to use a dryer as well - we don't have our own washer so we have one on site that costs $1 a time - it's something less for us to have on the bill at least... as for setting an AC temperature... wow - I wish we had that luxury!!! We have one unit in the wall at the back, and one unit in the wall at the front. No thermostat. It's either on or off - we can change it to high/low fan/cool and it has a thermostat setting numbered 1-9 but anything lower than 9 a) makes no difference to our bill and B) means the house heats up to insane levels of heat

We do have central air but it makes conversation virtually impossible as it is so loud (no joke - it is like someone vacuuming in the same room as you throughout the house) and also somehow generates humidity so even though it is slightly cooler than before, it still feels sticky and horrible. It scares the b'jeezus out of the cat

I can't wait til I get a job, we get enough money for a deposit on a house and find somewhere to live that we own - there are so many things I would love to do to this place but we're not able to

[StillThePrettiest 3]

*adds oyster sauce to mayo*

*stirs*

[Marilyn. 340]

our electric bill is about 40 to 60 bucks a month in the summer and around 20 bucks in the winter, higher int he summer because if the AC which I only turn on later in the afternoon but I do have our fan going most of the day.. and our gas bill is around 20 bucks in the summer and about 40 bucks in the winter... higher int he winter because of the gas heat...

[Krikit 1,165]

damn your quickness, Krikit! I thought I'd caught that in time

krikit, the "create" is an inside joke for us July 07 filers....there was one member who consistently spelled crate "CREATE"....she was so indignant thet VSC was messing with her life by keeping her petition in a CREATE indefinitely! So we just keep beating it to death, just for fun!

That's awesome.

[Jeraly 4]

our electric bill is about 40 to 60 bucks a month in the summer and around 20 bucks in the winter, higher int he summer because if the AC which I only turn on later in the afternoon but I do have our fan going most of the day.. and our gas bill is around 20 bucks in the summer and about 40 bucks in the winter... higher int he winter because of the gas heat...

I'm betting if we had better insulation, we could get away with doing that too - it only gets down to 90f at night though and in the day hits around 110f on average - with a nice insulated home we could run the AC and have it stay cool... oh that would be a dream...

[StillThePrettiest 3]

that's frustrating, about the a/c, Jeraly

when we went to Austin, the hotel room was a little like that - it was a REALLY nice room, far nicer than we usually get (got a great internet deal ), but the a/c was disappointing - no real controls, like you describe, and just 'high' or 'low' or 'off'

you'll get there

hang in... everything takes time, and if I'm a little ahead of you, I'm also *cough* just a couple of years older

[Marilyn. 340]

our electric bill is about 40 to 60 bucks a month in the summer and around 20 bucks in the winter, higher int he summer because if the AC which I only turn on later in the afternoon but I do have our fan going most of the day.. and our gas bill is around 20 bucks in the summer and about 40 bucks in the winter... higher int he winter because of the gas heat...

I'm betting if we had better insulation, we could get away with doing that too - it only gets down to 90f at night though and in the day hits around 110f on average - with a nice insulated home we could run the AC and have it stay cool... oh that would be a dream...

well, we live in a apartment building where every apartment has its own ground level entrance and we are kind of in the middle... and an added bonus is that we really don't get direct sunlight into our place... the upstairs does though and it can get very warm up there ....

[Jeraly 4]

that's frustrating, about the a/c, Jeraly

when we went to Austin, the hotel room was a little like that - it was a REALLY nice room, far nicer than we usually get (got a great internet deal ), but the a/c was disappointing - no real controls, like you describe, and just 'high' or 'low' or 'off'

you'll get there

hang in... everything takes time, and if I'm a little ahead of you, I'm also *cough* just a couple of years older

Yeah - it does suck a bit! I mean, if it weren't *quite* so hot it might be ok but really the bedroom is the only livable room with one AC unit on - even if we put both on, the living room is baking and as for using the cooker... well, it generates so much heat that the AC goes on just so it maintains a bearable level of hot!!! It really does put you off of cooking! Fish for dinner tonight as well so... at least it will only be on for a half hour tops... we had a trial run of our kalua pork for the luau (it was great but needed more seasoning) and the oven was on for five hours

[Reba 2]

ugh...d'ya know why most o the southern diet is fried food? Because its quicker to cook and doesn't heat up the house in the summer time!

Of course since the invention of the microwave they really have no excuse for continuing with the artery clogging greasiness...but I digress...

Our a/c is set at 74 because for some reason the thermostat is in the coolest room in the house, so if we set the temp any higher than that, the bedrooms upstairs are unbearably hot at nighttime. Its 74 down here in the den, but probably almost 80 upstairs Plus, the dogs breathe too much if its much warmer than 75.

Our power bill isn't too bad though, compared to our last house that had no insulation and bad wiring. I attribute part of it also to me following my husband around and turning stuff off that he insists on leaving on

We hope to be moved out of here though before we need to fill the oil tank for winter heating! Last year it was about $1800, and the price of oil has gone up considerably since then, I don't even want to imagine what it'll cost this winter! EEK!

[TBoneTX 46,283]

When Texas has a significant amount of Polish, French, Indian etc then it can claim more diversity.

Our boots are Polished; we eat French fries; and we have more Indians (American Indians) than England has Indian Indians. And, we have FAR MORE MEXICANS than England has, and probably even more than Mexico has, si man. How many El Salvadoreanos, Guatemaltecos, Chilenos, Peruanos, et al. does England have, si man, eh, verily, wot? How many mooseburgers can a Canadiano eat? Hey, that's right -- Texas has more CANADIANOS than England, almost certainly, eh man. Now THAT'S diversity.

[TBoneTX 46,283]

my plumeria is doing ok I think - I thought I was killing it but it seems ok now it dropped a couple of leaves - now the top leaves are green and look healthy but aren't really getting any bigger...

Texans, being diverse, would immediately feed your plant with moose-droppings, eh man.