Curious to hear how the current situation in Australia has impacted your daily habits, if at all.

I’m definitely ordering takeout and dining out less - not because I can’t afford it, but because it just doesn’t feel like good value any more.

  • Rusty Raven
    9·
    2 years ago

    Very little of my spending is discretionary, so mostly it means I frown at my bank balance and fret a lot more. I don’t heat the house over 18 degrees and utilise a hot water bottle.

    • passthepotato
      1·
      2 years ago

      I feel you! We cut most discretionary during Feb 2020 and haven’t ramped it back since. We grew accustomed to the emergency lifestyle. Compared to your system, we forego the bottle in favour of 1hr electric blanket to preheat the bed, and set the heater at 14deg. Electric blankets are actually incredible value - we have a power meter (plugs inline with an appliance), and measured each side of the blanket to consume $0.007c (round up to 1 cent) per hour at its lowest setting (at 17c per kwh, our previous contracted rate).

      That reminds me, I really need to make consumption labels for our appliances - I’ve taken all the measurements, but they’re still just scrawled on a notebook.

      edit: numbers

      • passthepotato
        1·
        2 years ago

        Posting to add a more quantitative figure for readers, now that I have my notebook in front of me. Each side of our electric blanket, on power setting 1, consumed 0.0229kWh during a 41min testing period. That equates to 0.0559kWh per hour