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lowfat said:
Get power bill today. $251! Somehow I've used over 200kWh more than I ever had before. Meter gets an actual read every month, so its correct too. IMO my bill should be pretty much the same every month. Even a 100kWh swing seems impossible for me, as I do the same things every week. But 300kWh more than Oct? Makes zero sense.

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Did that secret mad scientist's lab in your basement finally attach itself to the grid??? :)

I take it you heat with gas?
 
@lowfat old furnaces running actually consume quite a bit of power for the blower fan. Not sure THAT much but it can be noticable.

3D printers and other things running constantly also not super power efficient. How many spools did you go through printing hours of Gridfinity?
 
sounds like when a derp kid moved in to the basement suit of the place im in power spiked 900kw-1100kw higher the month he moved in. landlord tried to make me pay $900 extra that didnt go down so well.
 
So have not seriously had to look at a vehicle in a very long time. I forgot how bad some dealers and sales people can be with how they hide the numbers from you. So I just wrote everything down and did the math later.

One example...
After deposit financing about 16k of the remaining balance of one vehicle I looked at... They wanted 550/mo over 5 years to cover the remaining 16.

That's 33k in payments on a remaining balance of 16k
 
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sswilson said:
Did that secret mad scientist's lab in your basement finally attach itself to the grid??? :)

I take it you heat with gas?
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Izerous said:
@lowfat old furnaces running actually consume quite a bit of power for the blower fan. Not sure THAT much but it can be noticable.

3D printers and other things running constantly also not super power efficient. How many spools did you go through printing hours of Gridfinity?
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It is a pretty modern high efficiency furnace. Going back 2 years in bills. This is the highest I've ever had by 120kWh.

Printers after initial heat up aren't that bad. About 100W. So if running all day, which mine isn't, it would still be only 2.4kWh/day.
 
Izerous said:
So have not seriously had to look at a vehicle in a very long time. I forgot how bad some dealers and sales people can be with how they hide the numbers from you. So I just wrote everything down and did the math later.

One example...
After deposit financing about 16k of the remaining balance of one vehicle I looked at... They wanted 550/mo over 5 years to cover the remaining 16.

That's 33k in payments on a remaining balance of 16k
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That is why when I shop for vehicles I really focus on the ALL-IN, out of my pocket price (sticker+tax+fees+dealer randomness+interest+whatever add-ons they try to sell you + whatever else someone makes up).

Its good to know what your payment budget max is, but too many people (IMO) go to a car lot and just see if they can get what they like under their max without really understanding all the impact of what everything else getting tagged on means to the out of your pocket price…not implying that was the case for you, as it sounds like you are looking into those details.
 
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Vehicle prices are really starting to get into hard to justify territory unless a person needs one for work or wants to do a lot of traveling.

Once you factor in vehicle cost + Insurance you're probably looking at somewhere around $4K-$5K/year at a minimum for a used vehicle before you even think about gas and maintenance/operational costs. That pays for a hell of a lot of weekly grocery trips, or the occasional doctor's office visit via taxi/uber. Throw in a few week long car rentals over the space of a year and a person would still be way ahead of the financials of owning even just a beater.
 
Izerous said:
So have not seriously had to look at a vehicle in a very long time. I forgot how bad some dealers and sales people can be with how they hide the numbers from you. So I just wrote everything down and did the math later.

One example...
After deposit financing about 16k of the remaining balance of one vehicle I looked at... They wanted 550/mo over 5 years to cover the remaining 16.

That's 33k in payments on a remaining balance of 16k
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My Acura's about to hit 200K, is starting to have more and more issues and I'm dreading replacing it. I don't even like it that much but vehicle prices have gone insane, half the cars have moved entirely to touchscreens (gross for stuff like drive mode, hvac), have plasticky interiors and that's before having to deal with the annoying salesmen.

I was really hoping the Lexus NX or UX would get their refresh by now, but I think I'm going to have to go to the Lexus on the West End soon and just order a UX.
 
The wife and I have put away 30k, give or take a couple of G's for our next car, don't want any monthly payment or higher insurance. which limits us to eco-boxes, but we don't like putting money into things that just cost money and end up in the junkyard, worthless.

A friend who is a contractor was looking at trading in his Ram 3500. When he looked at new truck prices, he was floored, 120-150g to replace his truck pretty much, he is keeping his truck and driving it into the ground, I dont blame him. Yes, he needs it for work, builds custom homes on the islands in Muskoka. Vehicle prices are out of this world; most people I know can't afford to buy anything new.
 
The vehicle that was wrecked was a 2004 with 189,000km. A lot of vehicle listings I have looked at in the 15-20 range might be newer but they are like 220,000-240,000km (some lower but a lot of them in that range) and with unknown maintenance histories unless everything was done at a dealer. Make it hard to swallow the idea of a car payment again on something even even higher milage than where I was.

Two odd standouts that I'm seriously considering at this point are RHD because the milage is so low... 2004 less than 50,000km and an 2008 with less than 100,000km. I can get a lot of extra years out of vehicle with that low of milage on them... And a fraction of the price of things I'm otherwise looking at but resorting to RHD in a LHD country. (Doesn't bother me to drive them here)

There is one more at a local dealer I'll look at over the weekend with the wife and kids with me and realistically it is the most practical of everything I have looked at but definitely not the cheapest, but most practical and still not miled out.
 
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