In quick succession I've had rates, house insurance, electricity, phone, internet, car insurance, car registration and annual professional memberships. I'm glad I'd worked out what most of it would cost and worked out how much per month to put aside in an offset account. I feel like I'm bleeding money but at least I have it to bleed. On the flip side, I have money sitting there waiting for the deck contractor to get back on deck (slight pun intended) from his broken elbow. I also need to replace the gutters, which are leaking and dripping daily down the fascia behind the cladding and likely producing dry rot , but I might wait a couple of months or so until bank accounts stop hemorrhaging. Annnd then it will be christmas.
Related to bills, my electricity looks awful until I look at the average figures and realise I'm only using 2/3 of the electricity of households the same size as mine.
I also now have enough information to decide which water plan to be on. I use only 1/7 the allowed water of the std plan. But this is just enough that if I switched to the water saver plan I would only save 1/7 of the cost of the water bill over a year. I think I'd rather pay that and put in a more complete garden sprinkler system. I'd probably save more on a well planned veg. garden & citrus trees over the year.
woo hoo 3 months since I went dark!
