“I’m Searching Ebay for Windmills!”
Published Date: May 24th, 2007Category: Family Life, Opinions and Thoughts
I have to bitch about this one! I live in Maryland, which I absoltely love. 4 seasons… winter snow, spring delight, summers at the beach and falls hiking the trails among changing leaves. We live 2 miles from the Chesapeake Bay and 40 miles from the mountains. It really is the best of all worlds. But… the price of living around these parts is freakin’ crazy!
Come the hell on. How much do you pay for electric in your house every month? We have a little thing called BGE, Baltimore Gas and Electric. Oh… my… goodness. Now, I know it is not all their fault and they have to keep up with market rates, but help a sister out here. We are about to get another rate hike on June 1st, 50%. This is after the already existing 15%.
So, in order for my lil’ family to have power in our house we have to fork over approximately $500 a month. That is now, not after June 1st which will become $750 a month, before factoring in the pool. Call me crazy. Call me a complainer. Hell, call me whatever the hell you want, but that is a heck of a lot of money. Don’t even get me started on our city water and taxes going up 25%…
How are you suppose to keep up with that? It adds up, you know? I am just pissed because they just finalized the deal a day ago or so, and I will get over it with time and stop my belly aching, but good god ya’all. And you know what I remembered while writing this? There was a guy out there that did this whole, no more complaining thing and I think I signed his petition. Ugh…I am really not doing to well, am I? Oh well, you win some and you lose some! LOL.
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3 Responses to ““I’m Searching Ebay for Windmills!””
I totally feel your pain on this one. For the first time in a long time, we had to put the grocery bill on the credit card. Our other expenses are getting SO out of hand. I paid $3.24 a gallon for gas this morning!! $45 (all I had) didn’t even fill up the van. We are on a budget plan through our electric and gas company and pay about $260 a month. One thing that has helped us out A LOT is drying clothes on a line. And we are fortunate that we have tons of natural light, so we never have to turn on the lights until dark. But other than that, we are flat broke. Your generosity and faith in my ability to craft is sending Jacob to nine days of half-day summer camp at his preschool (THANK YOU!). I’m just about done, BTW, and those tees are SO stinkin’ cute. My own kids are jealous
Our electric bill is OK, but our oil bill over the winter was out of control… almost $500/month, and there are only two of us (plus the doggies, who obviously don’t know how to turn the heat on)! It was insane!
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