No gas here either... Gulp!
Haven't had a bill since June last year (they can only charge back 9 months, so we'll get 3 months free if they bill us now!).
I have money aside, but seriously freaking out.
We have a wood fire, but unless you're getting wood for free it really isn't much cheaper... Or so I have been told.
I'm off to turn my heater off and find my ugg boots!
I can only wish that our electricity bills were so low....
Last winter (all up from April to September) we paid over $5000 in electricty bills - our heating was aircon. FWIW we used to snuggle up with blankets to watch TV and wore layers of clothing inside. I turned the heating off at night - due to the cavernous hole that was the home we were residing in it was impossible to keep heated. We are in a different home this winter and I've been running the ducted gas 24/7 since beginning of May and our bills (electrity and gas) are a fraction of what we had last year.
If your house isn't properly insulated (walls and ceiling) and you don't have proper window coverings and floor coverings then your electricity/gas consumption for heating is going to be over the top regardless of what type of heating you use.
I shut every door in our house to retain the heat. We don't use our "formal" lounge but rather sit in the snug to watch TV. I have the heat going to the bedrooms, kitchen/family, tv snug and bathrooms. My in-laws are with us this week and are completely unprepared for the cold weather. I've never heard so many complaints about being cold (go and buy a tracksuit...but that's another story). My FIL said he was going to get his heater out of the caravan and put it in his room overnight. I told him over my dead body...you are not running up my electricty bill.
We also tough it out with only a small convection heater that heats our lounge room only when we close the doors.
We live in an area that reaches 0 overnight and days are typically anywhere from 11 to 15. We only use the heater probably one or two nights a week and never during the day, we've just adapted to layering our clothes and my boys and I have cute little animal wheat bags that we heat up each night and stick under our jumpers lol.
We will eventually get heating, however we've decided that this works for now and would rather put our money into finishing the outside of the house than heating.
It can be done people, you just gotta get a little tough!
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