I just wrote out a check for my MIL’s electric bill.  I wish I had her bill.  Mine is sixteen times more than hers is.  Sixteen times more!  Holy crap.  I’ve never seen an electric bill as small as her is.  When I opened the bill and read the amount due, my jaw about hit the table.

     To have a bill the size of hers I’d have to jettison every electrical appliance, never turn on a light, and forget the computer and TV existed.  We did install the energy saving light bulbs in every light of her house but still, sixteen times less than our bill?  Those light bulbs didn’t save us that much when we switched ours over.

     She mustn’t have turned on any lights at night.  Did she turn off her TV at five in the afternoon?  I know she stopped cooking anything since we began supplying all her meals.  I know she did her laundry once a week.  Although with the teensy stackable washer and dryer, the draw on the electricity wasn’t nearly as much as our full sized ones.

     Excuse me while I pick up my jaw.