Yearly power consumption.

[Admin]

Well it's tax time again and I been sorting thhrough my reciepts. The total electric bill for my homestead in 2012 came to 385.22 ;D

That's including taxes and fees etc. During trapping season I have 2, sometimes 3 freezers and 3 fans running.

Guess I'm living pretty frugal the rest of the year.

[patricimo54]

That is AWESOME! I spend more than that per quarter.

I think our power company has the 'smart meter' rigged. It doesn't matter if we are gone for a week or here for the full month it is almost always the same.

[Deleted]

You're doing great! I'm at around $90 a month in electric

[barkspud]

We use more then that in a quarter as well but 4 children at home hard not to.

[Jack of all Trapping]

Feb 27, 2013 6:30:49 GMT -5 Admin said:

Well it's tax time again and I been sorting thhrough my reciepts. The total electric bill for my homestead in 2012 came to 385.22 ;D

That's including taxes and fees etc. During trapping season I have 2, sometimes 3 freezers and 3 fans running.

Guess I'm living pretty frugal the rest of the year.

THE FRUGAL MASTER!!!! HATS OFF TO YOU!!

[vabeagler]

I know that you are in the north, but do you run any air conditioning at all?

[Admin]

Feb 27, 2013 14:56:52 GMT -5 vabeagler said:

I know that you are in the north, but do you run any air conditioning at all?

No I don't. There are times when it would be welcome but not enough for me to bother with. When I sell this house I'll be beck to totally off grid living so there won't be one there either.

[trapperandhunter]

Feb 27, 2013 14:56:52 GMT -5 vabeagler said:

I know that you are in the north, but do you run any air conditioning at all?

Air conditioning up here is a window lol

[jedicazador]

Feb 27, 2013 6:30:49 GMT -5 Admin said:

Well it's tax time again and I been sorting thhrough my reciepts. The total electric bill for my homestead in 2012 came to 385.22 ;D

That's including taxes and fees etc. During trapping season I have 2, sometimes 3 freezers and 3 fans running.

Guess I'm living pretty frugal the rest of the year.

Thats amaizing! I would love to have that bill! I can hardly pull that off for a month! 7 people living in my house earlier last year we had 10. wanna hear something crazy? When I moved from southern Nevada outside of LasVegas our bill would be over 750.00 a month! We were so excited when we moved here and power was so much cheaper, but you sir have done it good!

[fibros100]

Right on JC. You cook with wood If I'm not mistaken. I think I read that somewhere.

[fishleclair]

Such a low bill! I can not get that low for a Month!!!!!!

[Admin]

Feb 28, 2013 0:37:16 GMT -5 fibros100 said:

Right on JC. You cook with wood If I'm not mistaken. I think I read that somewhere.

I do quite often but also have a gas cooktop. When I built the place I set it up for multiple cooking devices, gas, electric and wood.



I have a full size all electric range but have the breaker shut off and never use it. It'll sell with the house. I have a large size toaster oven that I can cook anything but a turkey in and that's a huge money saver. I don't have to preheat it and it doesn't use much power. During the hot days, I can just put it on the porch if I'm baking something and it doesn't heat the house up.



You can see the toaster oven in the corner there. This pic was taken a long time ago, this was before I smartened up and killed the standby power to the range. When I killed the standby power to everything I wasn't using, my power bill dropped like a rock.

My bill for the whole year was 385 bucks but in ACTUAL power usuage, my house consumed approx 90 bucks worth of electricity. the remainder of that bill was taxes and fees from the power company

My next place will be off grid entirely with a solar array, Sundanzer fridge and freezer and a bunch of cool gadgets I been thinking up.

Every penny I save on household expenses I can spend some place else. ;D