Glos Guy, MrsW would use 1.5kW of electric commuting (less than 3 miles round trip), so we save that although working from home she’s probably using much of it running computer equipment etc. She would buy drinks at work but food she would take with her. So very little saved by not going to her workplace. Our gas bill for the quarter to Christmas (heating and a gas hob) was £368. This quarter will be much more. As Abercol says the govt tax allowance is £6 a week. I must check if she’s claimed it this year…
£300 a year is better than nothing I guess. I presume that you wouldn’t be sitting in the cold if your wife was at work though (I thought you were retired but I may have misunderstood)? Our gas and electric currently averages £630 a quarter and that’s with a price cap that’s just ended, so before all the increases that are heading down the rails. Reckon we will be at £1k a quarter before long and even more when Russia turns off the gas pipelines in response to the sanctions imposed by the West once they invade Ukraine! ?