Yesterday as of 10pm was £2.74 for electric, including half charging my phev (company car and I'm out on the road shortly), having the electric blankets on for the kids for half an hour before bed, and ironing the kids school clothes, and gas was £0.64 with showers and one load of washing up. I hate leaving plates from lunch until later but filling up the bowl once is cheaper.
Got my estimate through from British Gas last week and they think I'll be spending around £1600 each on gas and electric annually now. I estimate slightly lower so we'll see. We've not put the heating on so far but that may change in October.
Bought the dog a new blanket too for a tenner, he's part chihuahua so shivers at the slightest breeze anyway but I can't see us having the heating on overnight even if it starts hitting below zero this winter.
Just have to cut our cloth accordingly and plan ahead, which isn't really going to help a recession unfortunately. Food shop is about 20% more expensive weekly now, so we buy about 20% less food or swap. Also finding we are buying more microwaveable things as even with the added cost of a prepared portion, 90 seconds in a microwave is much cheaper than 20 mins boiling or 40 on the oven.
Will also be dropping Netflix next month and considering doing the same with prime especially as Amazon have upped the cost. We'll probably all be in bed by 8pm in December anyway to save on heating costs!
