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   elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:48:10 JST elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin

   uh

   I got the yearly adjustment bill from the power company and they're asking for, it says here 2536,17€. to be debited automatically, uh next week.

   I don't have 2536,17€. that's like, almost my netto salary. I was able to keep our family together without going into debt but barely, I'm not so good at saving money. I probably could have saved this much over a year or two if I had cut on many luxuries but I didn't. we got some heavy retroactive adjustments in the past, but never like this. never over a thousand euros.

   to make matters worse our visas are about to expire and we're currently applying for citizenship and permanent status, i.e. the worst possible timing to go into debt. I'll have to show my back statement at the Ausländerbehörde. this won't be pretty.

   moreover our monthly electricity fee increased to 316€ which is like, 3.7x what we were paying before? am I missing something here? I was wondering whether we're wasting electricity on something but our yearly use has barely changed from the previous year, and it's pretty average for a 5-people family with electric water heating.

   what do I do now. with all the worse things that are going on with the world I find it unlikely I'll be able to fundraise that much money, for a middle-class family in Germany. I'm the only income earner and I don't know what I could do in addition to a full-time job to bring in cash like that...

   *edit*: to make it clear, there's no major discrepancy in the energy consumption. our consumption in 2024 in kWh increased 4.32%. only the energy monthly *fee* increased 267.44%, not our energy use.

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     elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:48:07 JST elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin

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     I put a little fundraiser thing on the kofi at https://ko-fi.com/transmom/goal?g=6 , mostly to keep track of contributions that friends have sent. the deadline for the bill is May 19 so I really hope the thing with the installments work... I'll try to make a better post about this later, right now I can't emotionally process this...

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     elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:48:08 JST elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin

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     on a "provider comparison" site I'm getting prices as low as 196€/mo for the same energy use. still a whole lot and we'll definitely lose the luxury of long hot showers from now on, but if my math is correct 200 is a lot less than 316, that's like, 1300+ per year... still if I know my German scams there's probably some fine print somewhere that if I wanted to change providers I should have notified them by fax 4 months ago and now I'm required to offer my blood for twelve moons, or something...

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     elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:48:09 JST elilla&, gewaltbereite migrantin

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     some kind people already sent us some money; thank you; I'll ask the power company to divide the debt into installments like someone suggested, I'll start a fundraiser later if there's no other way, any ko-fis we get in the meantime will be for bad surprise funds.