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more birds equal more bills It is wintertime, which means it is cold outside, and electricity bills are usually higher because people are heating their homes and just keeping things warm in general. Since the very first day I moved into the side office that belongs to my sex slave ChrisSwallows he has been on me about conserving energy. Keep this door closed, only run this heater on low, things like that. It’s his home, he’s the one paying the bill, and I’m staying there for free so of course I am doing my level best to comply. Sometimes I mess up, but I’m working on it. When he first told me the size of his previous electricity bill I was astonished. Yes, he has a large house with no carpeting and high ceilings that I think was built in the 60’s, so it doesn’t even have much in the way of insulation. Furthermore, he has 2 / two parrots and 2 / two tortoises as pets, both of which are animals that need consistently warm environments to thrive. Despite all of that, I still thought his bill sounded a bit severe, and I knew my presence in the house wasn’t going to bring it down any. At some point someone asked why I’d moved in, and ChrisSwallows chalked it up to empty nest syndrome. Just a few months before he’d been living with his and her boyfriend, so having me around was helping with some of the newly felt loneliness or emptiness I suppose. It was at this point that I joked with him about the electricity bill that had him so concerned. Even if I kept the heat off and followed all of his directives, he hadn’t taken into account the fact that I would be cooking on a daily basis, doing laundry, and so on. No matter what, my presence was going to drive up the electricity bill. That’s when I joked that more birds (me) would equal more (higher) bills. He stressed and fretted, but in the end it was all for nothing. It turned out his had some habits that were electricity-sucking, including things like taking extended showers that ran a 50 / fifty gallon tank out of hot water. I don’t know if that’s an exaggeration, but it would help explain why his bill was so high, and why it has come down quiet a bit since she moved out. As of this posting the current electricity bill is half what it was the previous month, and it’s actually been colder outside. Nobody is taking hour-long showers and there’s probably a lot less laundry being done, but I can’t say if my need to cook just about every day has had a negative impact. ChrisSwallows and I, working together, are doing our best to conserve and be responsible, and it seems to be working. His nest doesn’t feel so empty, nor does his wallet.  |
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