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I Got The Power
Jun. 12th, 2020 10:47 amMy electricity company just introduced Electricity Happy Hours. You could pick a four-hour slot on any one day, during which all your electricity would be free.
Challenge accepted.
Power is pricey in New Zealand. The lowest my monthly bill ever goes is $180, and in the winter it can easily hit $350. That's for two people, with no central heating and no clothes drying. (My house is 115 years old with 12 foot ceilings and thus basically unheatable, so we just wear the type of clothing you use to go out into an Arctic blizzard and use very stingily applied heaters. And although I have a clothes dryer, I only use it once or twice a year. I line dry with the help of the cats, who like sitting in the clothes basket, preferably while I'm trying to use it.) So the opportunity for four free hours of power required planning of military precision.
And I can't say I wasted it. So much laundry! So much cooking! At one point I had the food processor, the oven, the toaster oven, the microwave, the electric wok, the rangehood, the electric jug, the dishwasher and the ice cream maker all going at the same time. Lucky I had the house rewired last year, as my previous elderly wiring (some of it original, with a tendency to fall to pieces if you touched it) would never have taken the strain.
All to save what was probably way less than ten bucks. Still, it was worth the effort even if just for the ice cream.
Challenge accepted.
Power is pricey in New Zealand. The lowest my monthly bill ever goes is $180, and in the winter it can easily hit $350. That's for two people, with no central heating and no clothes drying. (My house is 115 years old with 12 foot ceilings and thus basically unheatable, so we just wear the type of clothing you use to go out into an Arctic blizzard and use very stingily applied heaters. And although I have a clothes dryer, I only use it once or twice a year. I line dry with the help of the cats, who like sitting in the clothes basket, preferably while I'm trying to use it.) So the opportunity for four free hours of power required planning of military precision.
And I can't say I wasted it. So much laundry! So much cooking! At one point I had the food processor, the oven, the toaster oven, the microwave, the electric wok, the rangehood, the electric jug, the dishwasher and the ice cream maker all going at the same time. Lucky I had the house rewired last year, as my previous elderly wiring (some of it original, with a tendency to fall to pieces if you touched it) would never have taken the strain.
All to save what was probably way less than ten bucks. Still, it was worth the effort even if just for the ice cream.
