63% of Homes Spend More on Tech Bills than Utilities

[NapoleonDK]

I live alone in an apartment in the Pacific Northwest. Here is a breakdown of my tech/utility bills for December.

Utility:
$98 - Electricity
$43 - Water/Sewer
$5 - Garbage

$146

Tech:
$46 - Comcast internet
$50 - Smartphone
$8 - Netflix
$26 - Steam (Averaged over year)
$3.33 - Xbox Live (Averaged over year)
$2 - Android (Averaged over year)

$135.33

Looks like I'm in good shape so far. In the summer my electricity bill is near $50, so the ratio would be much worse. XD

 

[nottheking]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]it's not the heat that gets us into the humidity, and it does get very humid by us.now for the air-conditioning i would assume 1500 watt, its probably a good 10-12 years old. but beyond that, its also the fans in the house that push the air, and inefficient duct work, so about 60% of the cooling gets to us, and the fans use probably 1000-1500 watts, fridge, washer, dryer, lights, fans for white noise when we sleep, the refrigerator, stove, all that combines for a lot of power draw. and what I said up to 500 I mean it hit that once or twice during the summer, it's usually 350 of 400 range.[/citation]
Even $350 is still an average of about 3.2 kilowatts on average. Remember, again, that that isn't the PEAK usage during the day, that's the AVERAGE; so if your peak is above that, that means your minimum has to be below that. Such utility bills are high even for, as others have noted, living in places that are truly hot, and have to run the A/C a lot as well, likely as much as you are.