Hello everyone.
Welcome to my entry to Be frugal not Stingy community contest for this week.
The topic for this week is “Electricity” check out this post for more details @tergan/this-weeks-post-topic-for-the-frugal-community-electricity
Electricity is a necessity in life.
After creation God said let there be light, he knew we needed light.
Normally I don't feel okay staying in a place without light.
Yes, there are some places that are being disconnected from electricity supply.
How will I? Though normally I don't do much with light except my mobile phone.
I know we hardly have constant light here in Nigeria, but some places actually enjoy 24 hours light so I have heard.
And I have experienced it once when I travelled to a state that enjoys this.
Currently in the place I stay now, we normally enjoy light for at least 8 hours in a day sometimes more than.
We always have light at night and in the afternoon everyday.
Except whenever our transformer has issues or when it rains heavily.
Like I said before, currently I don't do much with light other than charging my phone, ironing my clothes which is rarely and using bulb to see.
Oooh I remember, I occasionally dry my hair with a hand dryer.
My standing fan is not functioning again and it's raining season, so I am not worried about heat for now.
Getting a new one is going to be when I start experiencing heat, which will be in months time.
So, currently this is an overview of my electricity consumption.
I live in a single room apartment, the house accommodates two other people.
Generally, the rooms connected to getting electricity is four.
We use prepaid meter which we subscribe to whenever it finishes.
Though the power holding company collects another general yearly pay.
Which they normally sum up to large amount of money, that they always sends to the main house owner.
Whenever they come every month to disconnect light because of their pay, we say nothing.
The house owner and the power holding company knows how they sort this out.
Because the house owner already taxed us 15,000 Naira for a year.
Once this is paid, anything that concerns power holding company doesn't concern us the tenants.
We will only have issues when other people in the same street has light and we don't.
The only reason why we don't complain on the pay is because we at least enjoy light everyday except when the two factors happens....
- Transformer malfunction
- Heavy rain.
The house owner doesn't complain or tries to increase the bill because we don't use much from the electricity supply.
Besides agreement is agreement.
Getting electricity from the country company's power supply is much more better than operating or depending on individual supply through generator.
Though solar system supply is good too but i truly prefer national power supply.
Especially when you are sure to get it daily.
Thank you very much for checking out my entry.
Please do well to join the contest.