My husband was promoted and started his new job on 03/21/11. He now travels out of state for 9 days at a time and is home for 4-5 days. Shouldn't my bills and expenses be going down? I'm eating out less...once a week I may go out to eat with a friend or do something, but I'm only paying for 1. I'm gone all day...so it seems like my electricity and water should be down. I even spent just as much as I normally do at the grocery store this weekend! I just feel like I should be able to save all this money and I haven't seen any extra yet. Maybe its because it really hasn't even been a month yet? I'm not sure. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed that things change.
And I did score an extra $25 this weekend by selling a video game I couldn't play. Maybe I should just throw it in savings?
Shouldn't expenses be going down?
April 18th, 2011 at 05:46 pm
April 18th, 2011 at 05:57 pm 1303149463
Are you on a averaged utilies program? If so it will take longer to average the lower costs.
Do you have a program able thermostat? You might want to check the settings so that they reflect new only you home times, and turn down the heat or increase the temp on the AC to what you can stand.
Also have you gone around the house and unplugged appliances that only the hubby uses. Phantom useage was a biggy for me and only until I unplugged things like his video game system, coffe maker, second alarm clock, etc did I see an electricity decrease.
As for water I was being charged the required miniumum usage so the loss of one person did not affect my bill since I was already as low as I could go.
As for groceries, it will take time for you to mentally shop for only one.
April 18th, 2011 at 08:36 pm 1303158986
April 18th, 2011 at 09:27 pm 1303162033
April 19th, 2011 at 03:33 am 1303184013
Another thought is that you should keep on tracking your spending - it could be that there is some treat or you both celebrated the promotion and the routine next month will smooth things out.
April 22nd, 2011 at 08:16 pm 1303503368
Jerry