My Debt Reduction Blog

Historically for us, October gives us our lowest need for utility usage. The temperatures are cool enough so we don’t need to run the A/C and warm enough so we don’t need to kick on the furnace. Well this October has certainly been an exception. Today alone we are expected to hit 89 degree’s and [...]

We haven’t ran the a/c all day and my normal threshold is an interior house temperature of 78 degrees before I will turn it on. Right now at 4:53pm in the afternoon the middle of my house is at 78 degrees and I’m fighting the urges to close up the house and turn on the [...]

For water usage, we get billed every two months and the bill usually averages $95-$100. Just over two months ago I installed a new toilet which uses much less water, and I was wondering if I would notice a difference on our next bill. Well, we just got the next bill and the total was [...]

Earlier this year we decided that we would cancel our home phone service, which we hardly ever use, and that would reduce our monthly expenses by over $43. We decided we would wait til the school year was over and then over the summer figure out everywhere that has our home number and update them [...]

As an IT geek, I run a home network that consists of 3 servers that run 24/7. I’m in the process of looking for ways to reduce my energy consumption which ultimately reduce my bill. So I’m trying to figure out what it’s costing me to run this equipment every month. Many years ago, I [...]

While looking over my recent gas & electric bill on my utility companies website, I found a lot of interesting information about my usage. What was real nice was the ability to export the data in to a comma separated value file which I allowed me to create a spreadsheet in OpenOffice and run calculations [...]

For as much as we have been running the A/C over the last month, was mildly surprised with my utility bill this month. I honestly was expecting it to be over $300, but it came in at $247. That is a bit of a relief and will make bill paying a little more tolerable as [...]

Weather wise we’ve been hot and dry for the last few weeks and as someone who is trying to grow grass in various areas of the yard, I’ve been having to do a lot of watering. We got a good soaking last night with more rain in the forecast today then again on Thursday, I [...]

The weather around my neck of the woods has been unpleasant for a few weeks now, plus we were home all day for about a week and a half while we were on vacation. Because of all of that, the air conditioner has been getting a substantial amount of use. And with light and moderate [...]

A few weeks ago, I installed a new toilet, not for any reason other than the old one had a leak somewhere and I could never really find out where. Since the new toilet has been installed, there hasn’t been a single issue, so I know replacing was the right choice. Recently, I was wondering [...]