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  • #16
    I had mine on last month

    I fired up the oil heater for my bedroom in the cold and windy (and single glazed!!) attic about a week ago, which is late for me. I get awfully cold very easily (jumpers in thailand etc) and have poor circulation so my perception, and reaction to, cold is very different from most. OH is quite often happy sat in a t-shirt whilst I'm curled up under a blanket with socks and jumper on. Electric bills last winter were £900 + per quarter (between 6), but with it gone up about 10-15% I think it will push the £1000 barrier.

    Wrap up warm everyone, its gonna be a cold one tonight! (says she with the oil heater, hot chocolate and dressing gown)

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    • #17
      Ours is just on the thermostat, set to about 17c. If it gets colder than that, it comes on. Over the summer it gets turned down to 15c but it's never 'off' altogether. Can't see the point in saying 'Well, it's only [whatever month], it's too early' with the weather changing as much as it has in recent years. If it's cold, it's cold. And if it's boiling hot in February and March, I'm not going to keep the heating ON because it's 'still winter'...

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      • #18
        Darn right its on! Flaming freezing here this morning!
        WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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        • #19
          Too expensive, not turning it on until it gets down to 16c in the kitchen (which is where the parrot sleeps)

          I am wearing my refugee outfit in my sewing room: clothes, plus fleecy beast (dressing gown) on top and a scarf on my head. Fingerless gloves, permanent cup of hot chocky
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          • #20
            Last night I was very much "oh we should only doing washing machine at night as its cheaper etc. etc.

            But now I have given up, and we just do stuff whenever, I would rather live in comfort than watch the penny's, I know that's not an option for everyone, but I have got to a point where I feel might as well enjoy life/life's comforts while we can.

            Darren
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            • #21
              Having found out that we somehow used more gas than was estimated between June and September(that was just for heating the water),I don't know when I'll dare to turn mine on....lots of layers,blankets and warming foods will have to suffice here for at least another few weeks
              the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

              Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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              • #22
                'fraid I put it on a couple of days ago. Just a short time morning and evening. I don't like being cold, me. Nesh I think is the word for it!
                Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
                  'fraid I put it on a couple of days ago. Just a short time morning and evening. I don't like being cold, me. Nesh I think is the word for it!
                  My wife is the same, I brought her one of them snuggle blankets or whatever you call them, and she uses it all the time, I guess women feel the cold more, she always has a million extra layers on than me. lol
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                  • #24
                    Ours doesnt go on until Novemeber, no matter how cold it gets.....far too expensive to waste, esp when you can wear slippers, jumpers and wrap blankets around yourself, and use a hot water bottle at night!!

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                    • #25
                      We did put the heating on. Reluctantly. Then we over heated and turned it off again. So, we lit all the candles in the livingroom for a few evenings (love candles......) and that took the edge off. Last night, we caved in and bought coal for the fire and it was so cosy.

                      Our combined fuel bill in this old house with six of us is, on average, £200 a month, so we are definitely in no rush to add to that.

                      Jules
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by northepaul View Post
                        Ours doesnt go on until Novemeber, no matter how cold it gets.....
                        Does that mean you leave it turned up in February and March no matter how hot it gets?

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
                          Does that mean you leave it turned up in February and March no matter how hot it gets?
                          We hardy souls turn it off in January!

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                            We hardy souls turn it off in January!
                            Never know though, with how the weather has been this year, We might get our summer in January!
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                            • #29
                              Like other Grapes, I can be absolutely freezing whilst Mr OWG is in shorts and t-shirt.

                              I routinely wear 2 pairs of socks, plus woolly slippers, fleece-type tracky pants, long sleeve tshirt, hoody and my Slanket (blanket with sleeves!) when the heating is on, and I'm still really, really cold....

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
                                Ours is just on the thermostat, set to about 17c. If it gets colder than that, it comes on. Over the summer it gets turned down to 15c but it's never 'off' altogether. Can't see the point in saying 'Well, it's only [whatever month], it's too early' with the weather changing as much as it has in recent years. If it's cold, it's cold. And if it's boiling hot in February and March, I'm not going to keep the heating ON because it's 'still winter'...
                                That's what we do - works very well. It's been coming on the last couple of days in the mornings but not so much in the evenings and if it warms up it just won't come on. It's only set to 17 deg for about an hour in the morning and a few hours in the evening in the week and a bit more at weekends though as we're usually out / doing things other than that.

                                Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                                Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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