Same here. We are learning to be less wasteful whilst waiting for our metre to be fitted.
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I am now so accustomed to a water meter that I was surprised to find out how many UK homes still do not have a meter and simply pay a fixed charge, regardless of use. I have a smart water meter and this is useful - the water company recently sent me a note saying they suspected I had a leak. They noted constant but small overnight water use. Sure enough, when I checked, I had both a trickle through a cistern (limescale build up on the valve) and a small leak on the outside tap.
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Hi
I have a somewhat unusual attitude to energy usage.
My ceiling lights , except in the lounge are all motion controlled, they only stay on for 2 minutes.
Heating is gas central heating, radiators only turned on in the lounge and bathroom.
I have two fish tanks,LED Lights on timers, the marine ones are on 10 hours a day.
They are both in the lounge, with heaters set at 25C all the time.
I use them as a form of heating, they give a good background heat to the room in the cooler months, use hardly any electricity in the summer.
The filters are very efficient, using less than 20 watts an hour but run all day.
I am also with Octoplus as a supplier, so I earn points for using less electricity at certain times of high demand, but I also get emails advising me of times when I get free electricity.
This is when the washing machine and cookers go on.
I do a lot of batch cooking.
It works for me.
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This sounds similar in principle to the French tempo system - although ours is more stick than carrot. But the outcome is the same if you can adapt to two things. One is a non-electricity means of heating the house - otherwise you would freeze on the wrong days. The other is flexibility on when you do certain things such as cooking or run costly white goods. So being retired greatly helps (cook late in the evening and not care about getting up late the next morning) and having a detatched house rather than a flat (downstairs neighbours might object to the washing machine running though its spin cycle at 2am).
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I also have an unusual (unusual by todayās standards) attitude to energy usageā¦If Iām cold I turn on the heating, if Iām hungry I fire up the oven or hobā¦or both. If itās dark I put the lights on and leave them on if Iām constantly moving from one room to the next. I use as much water as required.
I hate the way energy companies assume that we were wasting energy before. If they canāt supply me with the water and energy I need they should get their house in order. We are living in the 21st century for Godās sake. Is the only progress we have made is with waste of space smartphones, netflix and other internet associated stuffā¦?.. 
You would have thought the best progress human technology could have made, was to produce and supply free energy, instead of building waste of space wind turbines, fields full of useless solar panels, and increasing the population of this small island until we are all short of stuff.
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I am slowly changing all my bulbs to LEDs because I still have a lot of those fluorescent ones especially in fittings with several bulbs. They just seem to last for ever.
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Yes, LED bulbs. Around thirty years ago we were bidding for a new large electrical project in a cement works. Our customer wanted to use LED lights. No problem - thatās what he wanted use. And thatās what I have used since including our own house. They cost about one tenth of a candescent bulb.
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Iām going with the plan of having times in the day when I check that things are unplugged/turned off/shut tight/etc. Iām thinking I can make it so habitual that it doesnāt get overlooked as I get distracted by other things. 
In UK we have individual switches without having to remove them.
Despite using my fan heater much more than usual this winter my electric bill wasnāt too much of a shock for the quarter. It was certainly higher than normal but not outrageously so. considering the increase in price as well. However my last bill was $220
It is still less than $100 (Ā£50) per month but about the same as my internet and mobile phone combined. 
Actually I also received an email that I am going off contract and need to renew, that is something I do need to sort out.
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Electricity here is scandalous Bruce.
Iām paying almost Ā£1000 per year for electricityā¦Ā£250 per quarter.
My electric bill comes every month. Iāve never lived anywhere that didnāt charge me monthly.
Mine averages around $120 a month.
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Here in the UK you have the option of paying monthly or Quarterlyā¦I pay quarterly and definitely not by ādirect debitā I prefer to be the only one dipping into my bank account, although some things just have to be paid by āDirect Debitā
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