Something had to give when I realized I was behind on ATM card payments as well as facing changing bills around the house.
I never wanted to get this far behind, however the only recourse I had was to let a single of our cards go to collections with the intent to negotiate a better payment method in the near future.
This provided myself and others a tiny bit of money each week to handle our utilities. Of course this wasn’t enough, as well as I was worrying within more than one weeks if I could ever afford our electricity bill again. I wish I could say that I struggle with energy problems because I turn on too multiple lights or run too multiple family room or laundry appliances. The truth is that most of our electricity bill consists of the energy expenses running the air conditioning system as well as the electric heating system. Although I can get away with running our air conditioning system only a few times a week even in the summer time blaze, it’s the heating system that is the real culprit for our crazy energy costs. It’s so cold here from October to March that I have no choice however to run our heating system to stay warm. I didn’t realize this entire time that I was using possibly the least energy efficient heating source that I had at our disposal. When I l earned that our house already had a gas line that was functional, I decided that I would convert to gas powered heat as well as see if i could get our energy expenses under control. Although I expected a change, I could have never anticipated the immense savings in switching from electric heat to gas powered heat. I might entirely be able to afford all of our bills despite our meager income now that I have a current gas heating system to use while in the cold season.