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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

We've pretty much decided that we're not going to put up with being cold over the winter and will just swallow £100 each out of our pay for the gas bill on top of the regular bill. It's looking to be about £320 a month. But that's for actual usage, direct debit is cancelled and we're paying on bill - which means bills will be tiny by comparison over summer (we basically use no gas at all between April and October).

I do appreciate that we're in a somewhat privileged position to be able to just swallow £200 a month but I just can't be doing with the stress of watching every tick round of the utility metres so **** it I guess.

I feel somewhat aware that this is "what they want to happen" of course... they want people to accept this as the "new new normal" but there are too many other battles to stress over to keep worrying about this one.

It's not good for mental wellbeing looking at the minute details of energy usage. Do sensible things to be as efficient as reasonable for your situation, but then leave it at that. I have smart meters, but i just don't look at them. It gets cold in winter, your gas usage goes up, thats all you need to know