Just Got Our Power Bill For August

Mine was $236 and no one was there the entire month with the thermostat turned up as high as possible (86) Anyone else?

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!! open the windows!!!! Cook on the grill!!! Turn out the lights!!!

that is reeedickUlous!!!!! I thought mine was bad out here in CA, but I will not complain anymore!

:angry: Don't ask! I am moving to a one bedroom! All of mine were obscene! The One Seagrove Condo (2br/2ba) was almost $300.00! The Seagrove house was just $305.00 and it is three stories!!! Hoover (B'ham) house was almost $400.00 and I don't even hardly air condition the third level, there is not anybody up there! We won't talk about the clinic! :angry:

Our bill that we just paid 3 days before we left on our trip was $235.00! And that hopefully included that 100 + hot spell we had for 9 days. We have a programmable thermostat that automatically cuts itself up to 80 around 7:30 in the morning and cuts back down to 74 or 75 when it comes on around 3:30 in the afternoon. We haven't had a bill that was $300 all summer thank goodness. March's was the closest. RO, these are what we paid from March through August. But things will start cooling off soon where there will be a period where you can go without using anything for a bit.

08/21/2007 $234.88
07/29/2007 $149.33
06/29/2007 $183.20
05/30/2007 $156.79
05/02/2007 $206.10
03/31/2007 $278.21

:angry: Don't ask! I am moving to a one bedroom! All of mine were obscene! The One Seagrove Condo (2br/2ba) was almost $300.00! The Seagrove house was just $305.00 and it is three stories!!! Hoover (B'ham) house was almost $400.00 and I don't even hardly air condition the third level, there is not anybody up there! We won't talk about the clinic! :angry:

Anyway you can close off that third level???

I don't feel quite so bad about the bill for my little house - it was $217.90 this month. Not that I'm thrilled with that---

Only $57.32. I feel like I hit the jackpot after hearing these amounts!

Only $57.32. I feel like I hit the jackpot after hearing these amounts!

You are going to have a lot of jealous people!

Maybe we should be reverse snowbirds and go up north for the summer?

...omg RO...you are such a lightweight!

...omg RO...you are such a lightweight!

I don't get it

You are going to have a lot of jealous people!

Maybe we should be reverse snowbirds and go up north for the summer?

We had a hot summer - was close to 90 today but that would probably be refreshing to the southerners.

I don't get it

I would be dancing if that was my bill. Then the pool guy comes today and says we need a new pool sweep...$730.00!!!! I told Mr. K to get the broom out!

We had a hot summer - was close to 90 today but that would probably be refreshing to the southerners.

Personally it was pretty nice here today too... but the real question is do you have humidity? That makes all the difference!

$326 :angry:


And this includes turning up 2 of the ac units up to 76 while we are at work till we go to bed that night. Then I turn the main floor down to 74 and the upstairs to 72 overnight.

You are about 10 degrees too cold. Wear less clothes around the house and put that therm no lower than 81 at night, use summer bedspread and sleep naked. In the day time when you are away, bump it up to 83 to keep the dogs cool. You are not running a meat locker.

You are about 10 degrees too cold. Wear less clothes around the house and put that therm no lower than 81 at night, use summer bedspread and sleep naked. In the day time when you are away, bump it up to 83 to keep the dogs cool. You are not running a meat locker.

Brother I am all for lower bills EXCEPT when I am sleping it's 72 or bust. At that temp, the wife would be running away!!

You are about 10 degrees too cold. Wear less clothes around the house and put that therm no lower than 81 at night, use summer bedspread and sleep naked. In the day time when you are away, bump it up to 83 to keep the dogs cool. You are not running a meat locker.

Sweet Joe, Obviously you have no menopausal women in your home.

Ours here at home was $636.00. That is with a a/c system that runs on cooled water we pump from our pond. With water temps in the high 80's the system just had to work too hard. I have a lung condition caused by microbaterica so have to keep thermostat at 75. This was the highest bill we have ever had, more than our house payments use to be.

Mine has been over $250 for the last couple of months. What kills me is that my moms house, no one in it, water heater turned off, no ceiling fans on, fridge on lowest setting, no lights on, air on 80 and the bill is still $140??? crazy I must say...

Mine used to run about 125. in the summer and now with the pool in it is 215. a month. That was the July bill, I hate to see the August bill

You are about 10 degrees too cold. Wear less clothes around the house and put that therm no lower than 81 at night, use summer bedspread and sleep naked. In the day time when you are away, bump it up to 83 to keep the dogs cool. You are not running a meat locker.

uh............. I'll just pay the bill. I can't sleep when the stat hits 74+

uh............. I'll just pay the bill. I can't sleep when the stat hits 74+

Ed Zachory!!

Sweet Joe, Obviously you have no menopausal women in your home.

...SJ...you might as well sleep outside.

...SJ...you might as well sleep outside.

my thoughts exactly!

you got that right, I have to have cold so I can pile on the covers....:roll:

...SJ...you might as well sleep outside.

There are some things WORTH paying for.