What are your monthly living expenses?

[deerman]

like Boyd on the low end , house, land,and truck payed for. Am single so food cost low, air card for internet on cell phone plan.


if not for the taxes could be alot lower, pay about 500 a month for property tax, gasoline next biggest cost. Birds feed offset by sales of birds and hatching eggs.

 

[Moabite]

High electric bill for us is $55 a month, Low about $30 (evaporative cooling)
Gas about $12 a month in summer and as high as $350 a mo. in January before I put in the wood stove.
Water, sewer, trash about $50 a month
Internet and land line phone $115 a mo. (!!!!!) No TV.
Temp range -16* to 116*
Mortgage, taxes, food= All of the rest of it
Spare time to be with family and BYC: Priceless

 

[Ema]

a family of 5, with plenty of animals living on an old farm house which needs loads of new renos including insulation and new windows all the way around. I spend a few hours each week budgeting.
my hydro is super crazy expensive, everything in this house is electric, we are on a well, but all the pumps and furnace etc runs on electricity, I pay about 800 a month during winter for hydro, tell me that is not nuts, last january the bill, no word of a lie was 1200 bucks. I just wanted to cry. every winter Dh gets laid off and doesn't make a whole lot with unemployment.

hydro, tv, internet/phone, car insurance, gasoline, groceries and household supplies, plus all the smokes my DH goes through is about 2200 a month, there is no money to spare in the winter months. summers are easier cause he is working.

 

[DuckLady]

We are right about $400 for bills, including cell and internet. We heat with wood and don't have A/C. We use energy efficient bulbs and are good about shutting off lights and rarely use the furnace.

Our rental house pays both mortgages, taxes and home and car insurances. I don't really count it, since we don't ever see it. It is just paid for.

I make a lot from scratch, and we go to Costco about once every 3 months. We rarely eat out, since we live (as Lilian Jackson Braun might say ) 400 miles north of everywhere, it seems like, so choices are limited.

 

[Moabite]

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Ouch!

 

[Ema]

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Ouch!

ya, that is really the answer I get every time I mention how much my hydro really is!! the thing is we tried oil, but it was even more expensive, we tried wood and though wayyyy cheaper we had 3 fires in one year, so it wasn't really worth it, I figure we are not experienced enough to have a wood burning stove and I would be super paranoid now all the time, btw we had the chimney inspected, all the equipment was fine, its something the DH does that causes the fires!!!

 

[redhen]

How in the HECK do you folks get such LOW electric bills!
Mine is about $400...
And i don tleave lights on all day long either...
What AM i doing wrong??

Gahhhhh!

 

[Mahonri]

Last summer we had one electric bill that was over $700. I'm so happy it's getting cooler.

 

[debilorrah]

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My highest electric bill this summer was $214.27. That is with the a/c running 24/7.

 

[DuckLady]

We pay 3.8 cents per kilowatt hour.