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.