we are , well my other half, she gets very cold, and we always had the heating on high- she now has a few really warm jumpers and so wearing jumpers has made a huge difference to the heating - gas
Only heating water we need in kettle
Turned off ALL standby stuff - except the PVR
Turning lights off
All LED now
the letterbox is covered , since we moved in, also walls insulated , cylinder in loft and pipes all insulated as is the loft
All new windows
Log burner will be used more and we have a lot of firewood from trees cut down a couple of years ago
Now our gas is going up by 5X and electric by 3X... so we are getting prepared for the increase, and a nightmare winter - as on a low fixed , no increase company pension
We are in a bungalow - and no radiator controls, but the flow is all balanced , and we make use of doors open/closed to balance the heat across the ground floor
We also happened today - to review all our grocery shopping , we used to use Lidl, and then during lockdown and vulnerable - we had sainsbury delivery , which added 50% to food costs, we have slowly gone back to Aldi / lidl and today reviewed all our food shopping pre-covid and this week , so we are now making changes to that and will probably stop the sainsbury delivery - even though it costs us petrol (£4) to go and back - and time - but the savings are around £50 a week
i'm sure more things to think about - as the costs are now too high !!!!!
managed to get house Insurance , under last years cost for same cover , but had increased by 33% ...
today car insurance renewal - and that had gone up by 20% !!!! - but that was due to a fault accident , so talking to the company managed to get a good price - with increase mileage as we are travelling more as we come out of covid (but not as much as pre-covid due to the petrol costs!!!!!)
Next will be the broadband (goes up by inflation , so should get that down , probably need to change ) & phone & mobile contracts ( but they are cheap )
I'm retired , so my kids in full time high pressure jobs - would not have the time to look around - its very time consuming ........
BUT at least we can Heat and EAT , unlike some of the people we have heard are really in trouble now