It paid off being frugal with the heat this winter

[Savin4disney]

I am in Wisconsin so we can have some cold winters. I refused to have a huge heating bill this past year. So I put plastic on the windows and used weather stripping. I also kept the heat at 60 - 99% of the time.

My budget billing was 82.00 a month for both electric and gas - for a 2 bedroom apartment. Most months I had a credit. I think one month I was 4.00 in the hole.

April 1 I turned off the heat for good. I do want to go and flip the electric switch too. Just have to make sure that is all that is connected there. I got my gas bill that ran from March 10-April 10 and it was 36.00. So now my credit with that and my electric useage is 11.00. I do expect to have about a 20.00 credit or so in the coming months.

I could not understand people who were running the furance at 68 or higher all the time. I hate to see how bad those bills were. Plus here in Wiscosin if you did not pay all winter and have a high bill. They start shutting stuff off on April 15. They also shut off both the electric and gas since we have combined bills. No Thanks

[Tightwad Kitty]

Welcome to the Forum, Savin4disney.

You have done well to keep your bill low, good for you!

I have no problem with heat in winter here as I am in the sub-tropic. I rarely use it at all. Our tempature is around 5 C to 30 C in winter. Summer 24 C to 42 C. We have what I call a eight months summer and six weeks of winter. The balance is just right.

But I do have rule about my Air-Con in summer. Tempature is run at 25 C and no lower. I only put it on when the tempature get to over 32C I like my tempature around 28 C and I can stand tempatures over that if there is a breeze.