Heat.....sort of

This is a rant for the most part. My husband doesn't like to heat the house. We have electric heat which tends to be more expensive than other forms of heat, we didn't choose it, the house came with it. So we had a wood stove installed in the downstairs family room. Sure nice and cozy if you are in that room, and the door to the upstairs is closed. I still need to have a quilt over me and my toes in thick socks.

Getting the fire lit can be a chore, I refuse to split wood so the husband does it, cast on his wrist and all and oldest daughter does it. We buy firestarter things and they sometimes work. No newspapers around to help and although he buys one everyday he leaves them at work for some reason. Once the fire is lit I am ordered to keep it lit for the day while every one is off to heated offices and schools. I work nights so at some point during the day I either sleep on the couch, to hopefully stay warm by the fire or venture upstairs to the frozen north and turn up the electric blanket and attempt to sleep in my bed . Meanwhile the fire goes out....... Someone comes home and I am grilled why it went out. Am I supposed to wake up and keep it lit. If so I am going to start calling husband from work all night to stoke the fire...bet that goes over well. My husband likes sleep more than......... well more than anything.

Just for reference the last electric bill was over $400. He ordered me to pay it...I didn't he can. I can't have normal heat he can pay it. i don't mind suplimenting with the stove but to only use it to heat is ridiculous. Some day I will have to keep a log of how much he spends on chords of wood, firestarters, matches etc. And the time he spends stacking the wood and splitting it and complaining to me about the electric bill. He says we'll come out ahead. Maybe we will but it still isn't worth it to me.

My next house or husband, which ever comes first will have/believe in conventional heat. Bets are on as to which comes first.