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  • MrMusAddict@lemmy.world
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    tomemes@lemmy.worldToo damn high
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    6 months ago

    Two things:

    1. see if your power provider offers an “equal pay” plan, where your payments are normalized over 12 months. This provides consistency.

    2. Budget Budget Budget! Keep track of your monthly income and expenses, and plug this equal pay into it.


    Often times your power company will let you do equal pay before having 12 months of usage history.

    The one thing is that if you use more than you’re paying for, you have to pay the overage at the end of the 12-month cycle, AND your payments increase. So, don’t get used to leaving all the lights on!

    On the flip side, if you use less, you’ll either get a refund or accumulate credits which will lower your next year’s payments.

















  • Form me personally, I’d have to say my automated espresso machine. For context; I was buying 1-2 coffees from a shop per day (let’s say 10/week on average).

    Cost me $700 on a sale. Grinds & presses the beans by itself, then pushes boiling water through to give me espresso shots. It paid for itself in 6 months of ownership by weening me off the local shops, and it’s lasted for over 6 years so far.

    Instead of ~$4.50 per coffee, it’s like $24 for a bulk bag of beans at Costco that lasts me 3 weeks, and a carton of half-and-half that lasts me like a month. That’s like $180/mo → $35/mo


  • MrMusAddict@lemmy.world
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    toFediverse@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 months ago

    On Reddit, I was mainly subscribed to a few niche subreddits. By reddit’s standards, that’s still like 100k subscribers. But over here, even though there might be 1000 people subscribed to those same niche communities, the 90-9-1 rule still applies. Either the community has one super-spammy power user trying to boost life into the community, or there’s just no one actually posting anything.

    I’m getting enough of a fix to stay on Lemmy and wade out the peace and quiet, but I do long for the engagement of 50k+ users on a truly niche topic. My willingness to stay on Lemmy has been helped by me starting to re-utilize off-site forums specifically to those niches. But I can totally understand how it just feels dead to a lot of the Reddit exodus.