Finally! The means to combat the growing bill pile that adorns my billbasket!!

Here are the mid month bill reports:

-/Decrease
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Time Warner Cable: Budgeted 150.00 / last month 133.90 / current: 74.21!!
Action: Removed one cable box, called to threaten switching over to the Dish got me 6 months of discounts
Callback: June 16, 2005
Extra Cash: New Envelope: The Bill Shaving envelope (I drew a pic of a bill sawed in half lol on the front)


ConEdison: BillPlan 150.00. Actual charge average 155.00 (comp is on ALOT).. this month 125.77!!!
Action: Replaced 99% of all lightbulbs with energy savers, lights off at 9PM



+/Increase
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Gas Bill: BillPlan 145.00 Current Bill: 498.17 (Knocks the installment credit balance under by 124.56) I called and yelled and received this simple response that made sense:
"When gas goes up.. so do we, honey."
So much for being a grinch LOL)