My apartment now has now utility bills. The building pays the electric and gas. And I'm managing to successfully use free wireless connections as my neighborhood has lots of open networks, or at least more than most. Then, to get free phone calls, I hook up my headphones and my microphone to my mac mini and use that free internet connection to make Skype calls that are sometimes way better sounding than landline phones, especially if you have a great microphone. Then, as it turns out, most of the televised stuff I like to watch is downloadable, so there's no cable bill. And most of the radio stations I like are on internet too, so there's no paying for cable radio, which you often need to do when you live in a basement like me. Yeah so no gas, no electric, no cable tv, no internet provider and no phone company, just rent. It's like an ideal I wanted to attain for a long time.