In mijn geval, 760 euro van de 1200 euro komt van het verbruik, ze rekenen 39 euro per eenheid. Dus bij mij is er wel te bezuinigen, maar dat is alleen door die kraan helemaal dicht te draaien.

Congrats United States, you have a mob boss as a president.

Did daddy putin tell baby trump to throw a tantrum?

It’s a coup d’état.

It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!

Then fucking do something against your government.

Btw, Russia has been dealing with sanctions for a long time now. Meanwhile Israel seems to be getting away with genocide without a scratch. Even the ICC’s arrest warrant for Bibi is being ignored by a lot of countries.

Do you hear the people sing?

I can’t even fake my shock at this point. And of course nothing will come of this.

Dat was warmte en vaste kosten. Elektriciteit en water zijn hier apart.

Damn, ik val er net buiten.

Vorige week de rekening van de blokverarming op de mat gekregen. Belachelijk, het hele jaar geen radiator aangehad, alleen het warme water via de buizen onder mijn vloer “verbruikt”: 20 eenheden in totaal verbruikt, totale kosten 1200 euro, waarbij er een voorschot van 550 afging, of ik eventjes 650 kon betalen, binnen nu en 10 dagen.

Ik keek daarna even op de meter, en die staat alweer op 15 eenheden. Ik heb in februari 1 radiator een paar uur aangehad, dus dat wordt volgend jaar opnieuw zo’n belachelijk hoge rekening. Dat wordt kou leiden, want ik heb gelijk dat kraantje dichtgedraaid. Liever 3 dikke truien aan, dan dat ik zo’n rekening nog een keer wil ontvangen.

Outside the US?

There’s barely any product with free shipping. It’s also still more the auction site it used to be than a deals site. It’s regular people/organisations selling their wares, and they have to pay shipping costs, so they’ll charge shipping costs.

In fact, some people inflate the shipping costs, to offset the lower sales price that they set in order to show up higher in the listings.

I started out a bit high strung, I guess. My apologies for that

I guess the experience of Ebay in the US is completely different from the experience of Ebay outside the US.

As for alternatives to Amazon, in my country there’s bol.com. Shopping local is also a good idea. Don’t buy groceries at amazon, but instead in grocery stores.

Then there are thrift stores. It’s better to thrift than buy new.

Free shipping? On eBay? Are you high? Not even local listings have free shipping on that platform. Often they’re even abused to make the listing seem really cheap only to find out that they offset that cheapness by very steep shipping costs.
Also their international shipping hub that they make you use has so little care for your purchases that there have been many reports of stuff being broken in that warehouse, despite careful wrapping around the packaging.
Meaning the seller gets screwed out of the money from the sale (because the buyer wants their money back), and the buyer gets screwed out of the product.

While also being bombarded by ads by Amazon on their own website, so they even profit off of you. Or did you think those “Promoted” items in the search listings didn’t bring money into Bezos’ coffers?

I love your optimism, I wish I could share it.

My two full loads every week is not going to hurt the environment, no matter how much I get downvoted.

In a hotel, sure, I’ll reuse towels, but at home, no thanks.

My washing machine is not using less water because there’s less laundry in the drum.

Yes, at least the one I use for showering. But I don’t shower daily, to save water.

You dry your entire body at the exact same time? I start at my head and work my towel down towards my feet. And then I throw the towel into the laundry.