How much is your monthly electric bill?

Right now in where I am located, I have never spent a single penny for electricity and water bills. Three air-conditioners are on 24/7.

Our bill is around $100 a month. That includes our sewer and water bill too! Our stove and our furnace are natural gas. We are trying to cut back on all of these things too. Best wishes to you:)

My electric bill is about $100 per month or more. It depends on using air conditioner or not. During the winter is maybe more, because it gets dark sooner than during the summer.

whoa that is a big electric bill! my partner & i live in an apartment where our appliances are personal ref, 21" tv, dvd, subwoofer, 3 industrial fans & a laptop. our average monthly bill range from 450-600PHP (9-13USD). even if it's less than 1K, we still make sure to make it lesser since i do budget our expenses especially now that we're saving for the future. what we usually do are safety electric precautions of removing all electric cords of appliances not in use before leaving the house (except for the refrigerator) this is to make sure that no appliances are plugged in which could also prevent fire. we're planning to buy AC as well but we're thinking if it's really necessary. we can live using the fans so i think we'll pass. besides most bills like you're encountering are coming form those airconditioners & computers that you use. i know it's hard to cut expenses especially with household needs but if you really want to start on your own, try to live without some of the appliances you're comfortable with... say the AC which gets the most of the electric bill & if you don't really use the computer 24/7 then i'd say to turn that off too. believe me it's hard to manage a household.

hi there friend... hmmmmmmmm...every month its 1800 pesos... cause i often us aircon every night and day... if i seldom use it maybe 1600..heheheh! im not using refrigerator anymore cause it adds more!bills to pay!lol... and i often use tv electric fans and laptops!... i cant live with out opening my internet.. i stayed hours and hours of playing games in facebook!and ofcourse mylot!..hehehe! i dont use my microwave anymore...i dont know if it still works!lol! too much stuff adds more bills to pay!so i prefer to lessen buying not very important stuff... thanks! friend!cheers!...

Hi babyfuzz! Its no wonder that your boyfriend's grandma is paying that amount for her electricity. She has lots of appliance. haha. And I guess their house is so big. Well, probably, later on, when you're living together and if you only have enough space of your house with all those appliance, I don't think its gonna cost you that much Anyway, we used to spend php2,400 for our electric bill. That only include 2 laptop, ref, and TV.I don't exactly know why it is too high. My uncle who is living in the mountain area only spends php200 for their electric bills. They also have electric fans and tv too, without the laptop and the ref. Hmmmm..

Our electricity accoount varies from month to month, depending on the time of the year plus we have a combined one with the home and farm together. In the summer and autumn they are much higher as we have the pump going to fill the tank and for irrigation as well as the cool room where we keep the fruit and vegetables till they are ready for market. In our home itself it is not a lot. We have the computer, fridge and freezer, washing machine, various electrical appliances like the griller, toaster, kettle, television etc. One small air conditioning unit which is in our bedroom and is only used when it is very hot. A few years ago when we first bought this place, we did noto have a lot of extra money as we had a mortgage to pay plus I was paying child support to my ex-wife for our daughters. So, we reduced our expenses as much as we could and found different ways to do things in order to pay our way. Some of the things we did included cooking up huge lot of food and then freezing the extras into meal sized. When we wanted to have that meal, it meant all we had to do was reheat it and that was a lot less electricity that cooking each meal from scratch. Also in the summer months we nearly always eat salads which do not need cooking and sometimes we have cold meat. On those days there is no electricity used at all for cooking purposes. For example you can rug up with extra clothes or under a blanket in the winter rather than put a heater on, as generally heaters cost a fair amount to run. There are many ways to reduce your electricity usage so look at what you use and then look for an alternative. Good luck to you with you efforts to reduce your electricity usage.

Wow P10,000 pesos a month?!? What a huge amount! Your grandma is indeed rich to be able to afford something like that. Well mine is around P2,400 a month (more or less $50. It used to be just less than P2,000 but it went up. Our major appliance is just an 8 cubic meter fridge, computer (on for 24 hours by the way), a DVD player, washing machine then minor appliances are 4 electric fans and at least 8-9 light bulbs. The biggest contributor for my electric bill is my fridge which usually consumes 800-900 pesos a month.

Hi, babyfuzz. Your grandmother bill is an average bill, kind of like my grandmas too. Your parents bill is weigh too cheap. Which is great! For the usage period of our electric bill for October 27,-November 17, it was $94.33. That is 22 days of service. Which isn't that bad. I hope for it to be much lower by next month.

We are only 3 in the house and during the whole day we are always out for our work so we only are at home during the night. We don't use the aircon so often because our house is well ventilated and the atmosphere is rather cool because I have lots of trees and plants round my house. Our electricity each month is as low as Php 1,300 and the highest is around Php1,500.00.

Too much and it is constantly going up instead of down. I am on the budget plan but it still isn't doing any good. It went down about $10 this summer for about one quarter which is 3 months and it went right back up again after that. Can't win for loosing.

Last month, it was about $40+ and that was with three people in the house. Three computers, at least 3 TV sets and other appliances. P10000 is a bit much, babyfuzz. I hope you find a way to transition yourself from that kind of a bill to a much lower one once you guys live on your own. Take care.

$200 was quite an amount of money for electric bill. Usually the air-conditioner is taking up so much power the most, so, by having three of them inside the house and if they were just switched on the whole day, no wonder the electricity meter would rise and so did the bill. Ours the average amount is $40, still a lot than yours, but if you want to cut down some costs on electricity, I think you should lessen the usage of the heater, which consume more power like the air-cond.

I pay my bill in yens, and is usually less than 4000 yens. I live by myself in a small house, and I don't spend much time here, so that's why I usually don't worry much about electricity bill.

Our bill is about P6000 ... still trying to find ways to save but that already includes TV, aircon at night and ref .. good luck in budgeting .. I think meralco has a website with tips on which appliances are cost effective