I woke up at noon.

Cake for breakfast, sounds sinfully good! I am glad you had such a warm night since it was the coldest night of the year there. Do we spend a lot on heat? My home is small. Electric rates here have been climbing higher pretty much constantly since the spring. I have cut back every way I know how...winter is coming and of course the heat will be on. I can tell you that I don't keep it nearly as warm as I like. We have electric blankets and they don't use much power at all, so at night we can snuggle under them. We have plenty of other warm blankets. On cold days I wear long sleeves, and warm clothing. If it's warranted, I will wear a heavy cardigan sweater or a hoodie in the house to keep from turning up the heat very much. If it saves money, I am going to do that. It's very hard to have to heat a large home when the temperatures really dive. Here, you would have to be careful if you shut off part of your home, as the pipes can freeze in rooms that have no heat, if pipes run in the walls in those rooms. It's always something....either so hot you can't hardly stand it, or so cold you are under blankets. I love the fall and spring,, moderate temps are wonderful.

I'm glad you had a cozy night, even if you weren't planning on the heater staying on all night. I hope you're feeling okay today. Since I'm retired, I get government help heating our house during the winter. They give my gas company $400 toward our gas bill and that usually covers our bills for around four months. Then we start paying for it again. We get the same kind of help with the electric bill during the summer.

I know exactly how you feel in your house, since this old house has no insulation and no central heat. It's cold and drafty.

Nice to sleep warm and comfy. Is the heater safe to leave on? That's rather scary. We will probably spend about the same in heating as we did last year. Weird thing is that our level pay (we pay the same each month) actually went down from $111 to $86. I think that is weird. It usually goes up.

May be your body needed it. Sometimes we must listen to our body who knows more than what we know

The Alps are not far, winters are cold and we spent a lot of money to heat the large house in Switzerland. Here it's not very expensive, we have solar panels on the roof and the apartments are so well insulated.

Not so much no. I rarely turn on the central heat and make do with space heaters. I really would super like to replace my electric fake woodburner though. That could really heat up a room.

We use Hot Air Blower in our House during the peak winters in December & January. However, the bills then are still lower than what I incur during April to September when we have to run Air Conditioners day in and day out. May be you have temperatures below freezing? We have peak winters with max that fall to 12 to 15 C and Min of 3 to 5 C on an average. There are some years when the lower side dips below 2 C. Yes, letting the heater remain running all night can be dangerous. May be you can leave a bit of your door open. Are you allowed to have Pills with Coffee? Some Pills here are meant to be taken with Milk but most are recommended with water. Anyways, enjoy your Sunday. Best of wishes for health & recovery. By the way, you might, in the recent future hear about some sort of a trade deal between India and Chile!

It is getting more expensive here each year. Glad you had a good sleep last

My apartment has no central anything, I keep the workroom cool in the heat we have with the AC and fan on all the time, A stand up fan cools me off at night and when it gets cold here I have a small space heater

We run the reverse cycle A/C a lot during winter. It does cost but we hate being cold.

Hello, greetings, I live in a very tropical area, considered the hottest in Venezuela. Seeing your fear about the heating bill makes me question how different the worlds are even though we live in Latin America, because I am afraid of the bills for the constant use of air conditioning. ??

Yes, I have a large house. I try not to keep it too warm; but I don't want to freeze either.

I understand your situation dear, our weather here is so cold too but i don't have heater in my room. Rainy seasons and cold weather is always hit our place but what i am doing is always covered a jacket and i can sleep well in my bed, nice to sleep in a good weather too.