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Originally Posted by Claire
FINALLY!!!! Every July, I am the sole TDF fan here!!!
Claire...you are not alone...DH and I never miss TDF! In fact, we usually watch all the other tours as well.
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my $40 high speed bill, but I know I'd go crazy without it! (and I don't have cable so hey if evens out). OH WAIT my dh's cell phone bill! That one is crazy!
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I totally agree about the bills are being ridiculous high for us to pay them and I agree about the gas bill that I most hate. I have the basic cable and HSI (high speed internet) under same cable company which cost me about $91 a month. I used to subscribe with DirectV for about a year, but was not happy because some shows are sometime showdown or blackout. Plus the bill sometime vary for me to pay each month and decide go back to Cox Communication since now.
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My health insurance bill. I totally resent that we have to pay $680 per month for health care. I could go on with my usual rant about the crooked buggers, but I'll spare you.
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Originally Posted by treehugger
My health insurance bill. I totally resent that we have to pay $680 per month for health care. I could go on with my usual rant about the crooked buggers, but I'll spare you.
I'd totally forgotten about this one since it's deducted from my dh's pay and I don't see the bill. ITA with you. We don't pay that much yet, but we're getting there.
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Gas / Electric / Water
We are super conservative in this house when it comes to using power and water. We have low flush toilets, low flow shower head and low flow faucets. I have a front load washer that is suppose to use way less water. We have water restrictions in our city and aren't allowed to water our lawns or wash our cars except for in a 2 hour window on the weekend.
We changed all our light bulbs to energy efficient ones. We keep the heat so low that we wear slippers and long johns in the house in the winter. The house is only 11 years old so it is still pretty energy efficient. It's also 1000 sq feet and attached to another house which means it is suppose to be even more energy efficient.
I really don't know what else we can do. And yet we pay hundreds of dollars every month (equalized payments) for gas / electric and water.
I would a windmill & solar panels. My dream one day is to have them ... but then I heard this week of a local farmer who installed a $3000 wind turbine to save himself $3000 in electricity a year and because he put it in, his property taxes went up by $3000 a year! You just can't win.
Ok, I'm done my rant for the day. Got that out of my system!
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My cell phone bill isn't too bad because I'm on a family plan with my dad, mom and sister - so it's $30 a month for my 1/4.
The bill that I don't like paying is our gas bill in the winter. It's outrageous - and we have a small house. I also pay the bills for our fire co. and when I see their gas bill mine doesn't look so bad after all.
The other gas bill I don't like paying is gasoline - I put all of mine on a credit card and pay for it at once so I guess you can call it a monthly bill. It is usually around $300. The card I use gives you a 3% rebate on what you spend there and sends you a $25 card for gas (or goodies) once you've reached $25.
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I would definately say the electric bill!!!!
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Cable/Internet and Cellphones.
DH has to have all his sports channels and I like the movie channels, so our cable/cable internet costs $135 a month. On top of that cellphones cost us another $135 a month. But, Mom is on or plan too. Our contract is up this month, so we are going to remove some features and some minutes so hopefully this will decrease our bill. We don't have landline and just use our cells, so we have to have a little more minutes, but we hated having our house phone due to all the telemarketers!
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i would say my medical bills(not the premium we got it lucky there its only 149 for the whole family a month) but i just paid off over $4000.00 in medical bills with my tax return from last year and it is only april and i'm on payment plans with the hospital and peds office already we owe almost half of what we paid out last year uggg...but i guess the only plus is our out of pocket maximum will be met earlier in the year this time.