How have your bills been since seasons?

After my first winter I have to correct myself.
The use of the Thermostat set to hot roughly tripled my utility bills

Mine went from 6000 to 25000 :#
And that is with frugal trait :(

Mine have increased so much (thanks to the thermostat) but at least it makes the game more challenging.

Mine have increased but I play with MCCC installed (keeps bills at a realistic level) and all of my sims are wealthy so no worries here.

I would say that my bills definitely increased. I've been playing all over my game to get different families to experience the holidays. For one family, the bills were $14,000!! I only have the thermostat in one house in Newcrest. I'm guessing that house has very poor insulation because the sims are freezing in the winter and burning up during the summer. No other families have had that type of experience.

I heard about the high bills , so I kept my thermostat on all winter and my bills were under $6,000. Is it the size of the lot or house that matters? I was on a moderate sized house on a 20 x 30 lot

"Montrase102;c-16591148" wrote:
I heard about the high bills , so I kept my thermostat on all winter and my bills were under $6,000. Is it the size of the lot or house that matters? I was on a moderate sized house on a 20 x 30 lot

House size and especially, number of items/furniture in the house (AFAIK)

My bills jumped from 12 000 to 38 000 in a Sim week during summer.
Good thing I had 300 000 in the bank.

This needs to be fixed to reasonable levels.

I nearly had a heart attack when I was expecting my usual bills of around $2500...I had the thermostat set to cool for a few days and I got the bills.... $10,215! Has anyone else had a bill like that? I didn't expect the thermostat to effect my bills that much...

I'm curious as I haven't really paid too much attention to the thermostat/bills relationship yet... does size of the house factor in?