Smart meters

My husband won't entertain one.

I would not have one of these if they paid me to have it.

Have you not read the warnings that it gives greedy power companies to turn it into a pre-payment meter at the flick of a switch? This has happened to many people, including some of those who are vulnerable. If you dont have a smart meter they have to apply for a warrant to enter your home and the courts are rammed at present.

You may think well no danger here, I can afford my bills. However there is an old saying that we are only one banana skin away from disability.

I prefer not to put more power into the hands of these greedy corrupt companies.

8dragonfly* may I ask why you had two meters fitted? I have one and it is sufficient.

I have always either dried clothes on a rotary drier outside or on a line indoors. What I have done, which I know is OTT is to switch off everything on the wall and that includes the oven, hob, dishwasher and w/machine.

I have been cushioned until now but in July my fixed energy rate will finish so I am preparing myself for then.

Ours got unplugged and put in a drawer the day we got it, I can check our usage online, if I want to. Never owned a tumble-dryer, it’s either outside or on a clothes airer in the spare bedroom.

I plug mine in occasionally, if it were on all the time I think I would become obsessed with it and end up sitting in the cold reading by candlelight to get the usage down as low as possible.