Electricity Counter
Electric Counter In 2004, I received a letter from the retirement funds that my pension would stop because of some papers that were missing. I send a few mails to the Retirement funds and even called their help-line, but at no avail. I needed to go to Belgium and fix my pension. I told my wife that I would need to travel to Belgium and she (and my daughter) wanted to travel with me. I booked a flight to Belgium and started to pack everything. But I had already spend lot's of money on house items (television, DVD player, synthesizer, kitchen items, etc.) and was not keen to leave my house unguarded. Specially because there had been some burglars roaming in the village and ransacked some houses. Also some bills, like water, Cable TV and electricity needed to be paid in cash to the collector and required the tenants to be home. Talking with my wife about this, she proposed to let her mother to live in our house while we were in Belgium. I was not keen to let her mother live in my ho...