Electricity: $78.88
Natural gas: $35.04
Cable modem: $46
Cell phone: $10 (family plan, father won't let me pay)
In exchange for living on the futon for six weeks for a total of $75, I am paying 2/3 of the utility bill for August and September. (It's a somewhat convoluted situation.)
So, I owe $106.61. I guess my guestimate of $100 for utilities was pretty accurate. I was hoping I'd overestimated. I think it'll drop next month, though.
Does running two incandescent ceiling bulbs for 6-ish hours a day, plus a desktop computer with an LCD monitor for 12 hours a day, over the course of 2 weeks, actually add up to $30 in electric bills?? Because besides my clock radio (which I need for my alarm), those are the only additions I have made to electric consumption in this household besides, like, turning the bathroom light on when I'm in it.
I'm kind of annoyed.
I'm expecting the gas bill to jump because of me (probably from $10 to $30 - $40), but I had no idea I had that big of an electrical footprint.
I tried, I really did. Because I actually have TWO OTHER COMPUTERS THAT I NEVER EVEN PLUGGED IN. Argh, this will majorly suck.
Utility bills for August
September 6th, 2006 at 06:25 am
September 7th, 2006 at 03:24 pm 1157639055
Good Luck,
Wayne
September 9th, 2006 at 08:30 pm 1157830202
I always shut off my monitor manually, but putting my computer's harddrive in powersave mode is a little trickier. It has a tendency to... not wake up again, causing me to lose a lot of data (especially half-finished writing stored in browser forms).
I might bust my computer open to check the wattage on the power supply. I just always thuoght that idle computers didn't consume much electricity, even if they're left on. I'll have to see if I can get that confirmed (or dis-confirmed, as the case may be).
~mimi
January 16th, 2009 at 04:45 am 1232081136