Originally Posted by
BEagle
Back in 1973, over the Christmas Grant, some bright spark decided to save money by turning off the heating.
One of the first things I bought was a fan heater. It came in very useful year after year when heating was switched off at the official season change dates regardless of how cold it was. With everyone else i knew having theirs on full blast, the electricity cost must have exceeded the central heating cost many times over.