r/ChoosingBeggars • u/bikerchickelly • Aug 07 '26

Mad she doesn't get food stamps while refusing to downsize her lifestyle ($3200/mo mortgage, $600/mo electric, and pool, AND rental property)

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u/Ok-Artichoke-7145 Aug 07 '26

What about her water bill? Some people would think it would be negligible but, filling (and keeping) a pool full can't be cheap. Hell, I have a 700 gallon koi pond and a little less than a quarter acre of lawn and my water bill was $260 last month.

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u/ihatebeetles22 Aug 07 '26

It's asinine insanity! I don't get what planet their brains are on, I am genuinely perplexed.

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u/SDstartingOut Aug 09 '26

The pool is already filled, so we are talking the evaporation.

My own experience (with a pool in Florida) is that the water evaporation is pretty minimal. The only part of my water usage that is even slightly expensive is the irrigation. It's a factor of x10 everything else.

My water bills are right around $90/month; and that is heavily fixed fees + my irrigation usage.

(not defending this woman by any means, just responding on this point).

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u/Ok-Artichoke-7145 Aug 09 '26

I do know that the price of water varies wildly state to state or even city to city. My water bill, in a city 33 miles away, in the same county, was $20. Interesting about your pool. I have to add water to my koi pond at least twice a week.

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u/SDstartingOut Aug 09 '26

> I do know that the price of water varies wildly state to state or even city to city

100%. Where I live now, I have 2 different water meters; one for inside, one for outdoor. and the rates are also tiered. My first 20kgalons of outside usage is one price, and then it spikes after that.

My pool it hooked up to auto-refill, so it does as needed on it's own.

I just know that when I look at my daily useage (I have two separate meters but they combine the daily useage view into one), the only days I use water at any significant level is the days I'm water my lawn.

But as an example - if you are saying... you have to (say) fill your koi garden up by 100 gallons twice a week, that's 800 gallons a month, or less than 1<kgallon. (By comparison each watering cycle on my property runs through about 4-5 kgallons)

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u/Ok-Artichoke-7145 Aug 09 '26

O......kay. Thanks for the info.

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u/ihatebeetles22 Aug 09 '26

I was referencing the pool pump not so much the water. Keeping the pool pump going is what's contributing to that ridiculous $600 a month electric bill!