It just got personal..

I know this is a craft and art blog, but I've had it with bills. I want to talk about student life for today, or more correctly .. how gas and electricity screws your savings. 

Unless I just sit around and read books all day.. there is nothing else we can do to minimize our electricity bill. One hundred and seventy five dollars a quarter is FAR too much for two students to pay, its about $20.00 a week on gas and electricity. My beef with this is a lot of each of those bills goes to the 'maintenance fee', they charge you to keep it. But I bet if it was broken, we (or the landlord) would still have to pay to fix it. 

And what's this about charging more in order to 'build more infrastructure' for handling peak hour energy consumption. If the government really cared about saving the environment, they would put rules in place (like they do during droughts). Instead, they just charge more, and only people like us feel it. If your making $2500 a fortnight, chances are that 1. you are able to reduce your bill more because that money likely leads to more appliances, and 2. the bill wouldn't hit you as much.

Grrrrrrr.