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luckygreeniii · 01-12-2009, 11:09 AM

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have you looked at your toilets? After a while the pipe where the filler thing goes will crack and this will allow a tiny leak that will add up over time. You can usually see it by looking for a slight stream of water going down the inside of the toilet bowl. It might help to add coloring to the water in the bowl

Yes, I think our toliet upstairs has a leak. Mentioned it to my husband and he said that it wouldn't cause that much of a rise in our bill. I am kind of thinking otherwise.

rd2007 · 01-12-2009, 11:15 AM

I'll guarantee you it will cause a spike because that's what made me look at the toilets in the first place. I'm a pro plumber now having replaced toilet innards in all three toilets and completely replacing two of the three toilets. We've also replaced all bathroom faucets and the kitchen faucet twice. Those were all upgrades, though.

doss1 · 01-12-2009, 11:18 AM

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I'm looking at a map of the area and Yellowstone seems to be in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, so maybe I can knock out three states I haven't been to. That'll leave Oregon, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and both Dakota's as the only states I haven't been to.

The entire area is great, but the best parts are in Wyoming (though for Alaskan-style bush flying, Idaho comes close) Even if you go in June, it will snow sometimes. Yellowstone is amazing. If i remember correctly, only like 10% of the park is open to the public...the rest being closed. Lots of areas are still not even technically mapped. They discovered some new waterfalls when I was there.

Good luck!

mpd33 · 01-12-2009, 12:18 PM

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did you read the meter to see if the reading was accurate? that's odd to increase use by 50% this time of year. Maybe your neighbor was fueling their Christmas lights from your outlet? I love this time of year because I don't need a/c or heat.

I'm looking at a map of the area and Yellowstone seems to be in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, so maybe I can knock out three states I haven't been to. That'll leave Oregon, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and both Dakota's as the only states I haven't been to.

I haven't checked yet, but I will. I'm not familiar with how they determine your bill, have you all explained it on here? If so I'll just do a search to find it. Otherwise, please enlighten me. The idea that someone is guessing at my usage... well, I'll reserve comment until I know how it is done.

On our trip to Jackson Hole (and Yellowstone), we also went to Devil's Tower Monument (ya know, from Close Encounters),.. that was cool. Took pictures with moose just strolling by. And then we hit Mt Rushmore and Custers Last Stand.... wow, we did a lot on that trip!

rd2007 · 01-12-2009, 01:58 PM

I wish I had time to cover all that land. The snowmobile trip covers about 90 miles of the park, which is barely a dent, but I'll get to see Old Faithful and be within inches of some bison and who knows what else. My wife thought they were cute, until she saw some of the videos where you drive by them close enough to touch (if you were crazy). Then she didn't see them as quite so cute and definitely saw them as huge furry things with sharp horns

We also plan on going to the elk reserve and hopefully will see a lot more animals. I know the bears will be hibernating, but it would be pretty cool to catch one taking a bathroom break or something. I would definitely love to spend about two weeks up there and hopefully will one day.

I don't know how they read the water meter. I don't even know why I asked if you read it... it's not like an electric meter at all, which is what I was thinking of.. oops

rd2007 · 01-12-2009, 07:37 PM

my kids better not read this story, otherwise they'll probably try to beat her..

THIS KID'S A TEXT MANIAC - New York Post

TXtrkgrl · 01-13-2009, 06:40 AM

When my daughter first got text messaging, she texted just over 10,000 the first month. Luckily she has unlimited but I still put a stop to that real quick. Funny thing is that I never saw her texting.
This was during the summer so at least she wasn't texting at school

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rd2007 · 01-13-2009, 06:53 AM

mine average 3000-5000 per month. We have unlimited, so I don't really care and the amount of phone minutes they use went way down too. The problem with that is I now have 1500 anytime minutes and we maybe use 300-400.

TXtrkgrl · 01-13-2009, 07:07 AM

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mine average 3000-5000 per month. We have unlimited, so I don't really care and the amount of phone minutes they use went way down too. The problem with that is I now have 1500 anytime minutes and we maybe use 300-400.

Have you thought about changing your plan. I had 1500 minutes and changed it to the 800 minute plan. Like you, we only use about 300-400 minutes.

rd2007 · 01-13-2009, 07:19 AM

1500 is the new 800, or at least it is for Sprint. I was wanting less minutes to reduce costs, but that was as low as it went. I have that plan that does unlimited texting, video, and picture mail. Only problem is I get random charges for data, even though it's included. They removed the charges, but I wish they could just fix their system so it realizes the charges are part of the plan. That's obviously asking for too much, though..