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In the winter, spring and fall I use no air conditioning and basically my electric bill is my laptop, phone charging, lighting and a little $200 fridge from hom
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
In the winter, spring and fall I use no air conditioning and basically my electric bill is my laptop, phone charging, lighting and a little $200 fridge from home depot. In the summer for the hottest 3 months of the year I will use air conditioning, not central but a small low space unit and that runs me about 40 bucks a month. In the winter I run a couple of little space heaters and that usually runs me about 20 bucks. If I use gas instead of those it runs me about 40 bucks a month average in gas.
I use no solar or anything like that, but I do intend to, if I want to continue living light like this I would be able to do it all on modest solar.
It doesn't hurt that I live near the ocean, and in a pretty small space (albeit not well insulated at all; I prefer to spend my time outdoors so the space is for sleeping and showering and cooking and what not) so summers are not as extreme and winters too, but it does get hot/cold enough that I need something for the extreme parts of the year.