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Posted by l�cid on Dec-17-2007 20:49:

RJT and i are both big fans of sweaters, large meals, and hot cups of tea.

we're mainly just trying to keep our gas & electric bill lower. it was $255 last month. ouch.

Posted by Moral Hazard on Dec-17-2007 20:51:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid
RJT and i are both big fans of sweaters, large meals, and hot cups of tea.

we're mainly just trying to keep our gas & electric bill lower. it was $255 last month. ouch.

Holy shit! I have a 2300sq foot house and my bills are half that.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Dec-17-2007 20:56:

Goddamn, thank god heat is included in my rent! I pay my own electric bill, but it's only 40-50 bucks a month.

And +1 on the big sweaters. One of the residents where I work just gave me a beautiful hand knitted wool sweater with leather buttons on it! It's so fucking awesome, I love it! It's vintage, too!

Nothing beats hand made shit.

Posted by RJT on Dec-17-2007 20:59:

Welp, I totally screwed up the first window I did, but luckily bought enough to sacrifice at least one - so now I've got a the living rooms windows set, and I just need to blow dry the three smaller ones.

The only thing that seems to take a lot of time is blow drying the film - otherwise, no fuss, no muss (though double sided tape can fuck right off).

Posted by Silky Johnson on Dec-17-2007 21:00:

There's a blow-job joke in there somewhere.

Posted by l�cid on Dec-17-2007 21:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Holy shit! I have a 2300sq foot house and my bills are half that.

lucky. our first bill was $98. then $108. then winter raped us.

paying for gas & electric is definitely one of the negative aspects of living where we live (street parking & shoveling in winter are the other ones), but the positive aspects make up for it. it is hard to get used to though, since i always lived in smaller complex-style apartments where heat was always free and i never paid more than $50 for an electric bill.

Posted by Ygrene on Dec-17-2007 21:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Clovis
Note that I live in Los Angeles and have no fucking clue what I'm talking about.

Sig material.

Posted by Capitalizt on Dec-17-2007 21:09:

Get some thin foam strips from Home Depot and stuff them in the cracks where cold air is getting in. I don't know what they're called..but they are the same type of material that is on the tips of earphones.

It's cheap and works good.

Posted by Zoso on Dec-17-2007 21:11:

Don't feel bad. We almost exclusively use electric heat, and during really cold spells our bill has been as high as $290. Keep in mind, though, that there are two units: one for the upstairs, one for the downstairs. I grew up with wood heat, and I miss not having it in our current home. My goal is to end up in a house with wood heat again before I die.

Also, I am sorry that in no way was any of the above useful.

Posted by l�cid on Dec-17-2007 21:13:

hey babe - regarding Vinnie's idea about putting a curtain in our front entrance, you should measure the width of that frame and compare it to the width of the shower curtain rod. if they're roughly the same size i think we could get away with hanging a curtain on a nice-looking shower rod up there to avoid drilling into the wood.

Zoso - wtf is wood heat?

Posted by Zoso on Dec-17-2007 21:14:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid

Zoso - wtf is wood heat?

A wood burning stove. http://www.woodheat.org/

Posted by l�cid on Dec-17-2007 21:15:

how amish of you.

Posted by Zoso on Dec-17-2007 21:16:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid
how amish of you.

I'm tellin' ya; once you go wood heat, you never go back. And stuff...

Posted by Ygrene on Dec-17-2007 21:19:

I generated some wood heat this morning, if you know what I mean.

Posted by shaw on Dec-17-2007 21:20:

Posted by Meat187 on Dec-17-2007 21:20:

I had morning wood, too!

Posted by Zoso on Dec-17-2007 21:21:

quote:
Originally posted by Ygrene
I generated some wood heat this morning, if you know what I mean.

OMG, I gave the shampoo bottle some lovin' too! Sloppy seconds FTL!

Posted by nchs09 on Dec-17-2007 21:23:

Posted by l�cid on Dec-17-2007 21:24:

quote:
Originally posted by nchs09
you guys live together?

since the beginning of September.

Posted by Zoso on Dec-17-2007 21:25:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid
since the beginning of September.

OMG SIN!!! *points*

Posted by RJT on Dec-17-2007 21:31:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid
hey babe - regarding Vinnie's idea about putting a curtain in our front entrance, you should measure the width of that frame and compare it to the width of the shower curtain rod. if they're roughly the same size i think we could get away with hanging a curtain on a nice-looking shower rod up there to avoid drilling into the wood.

Zoso - wtf is wood heat?

About the same size - I think we could probably pull it off.

Will check Home Depot tomorrow

Posted by Ian on Dec-17-2007 22:16:

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Originally posted by Zoso
OMG SIN!!! *points*

re. shower curtain rod. it probably won't hold a good warm curtain up

My auntie uses a wood burner in their lounge, it's so damn toasty, my cousin works as a tree surgeon so brings free logs home to use. saves them a fortune, as the radiators can just come on morning/evening in the other rooms on a low setting.

and $155 a month? what the fuck is going on? our electric bill this last quarter is $230 and the gas which is heating & cooking is $140

Posted by nchs09 on Dec-17-2007 22:18:

i think our gas bill in atlanta is like 60 bucks lol.

Posted by RJT on Dec-17-2007 22:33:

Sasha does not like weatherizing

Posted by bas on Dec-18-2007 03:16:

I enjoyed reading this thread. It makes me realize just how not cold it is here. God forbid I should live in an area that requires you to have a Transformer house, I'd probably freeze to death by the first snow

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