Do you want to save money on electricity in one simple step?
**GO UNPLUG STUFF**
**Your appliances use electricity if they are plugged in even if they're turned "off"**
That's Right!
1) Do you have a coffee maker? Are you currently brewing coffee at this exact moment? If not, go unplug it.
2) Do you have a cell phone charger? Are you currently charging your cell phone? If not, unplug the charging cord.
3) Do you have certain lamps that you rarely use? Unplug them. While you're at it, if you change the bulbs to energy efficient ones, you'll cut down on your energy use tremendously.
4) When was the last time you used your stereo/video game system/DVD player/VCR/etc.? If you're not currently using them, unplug them. They're simply wasting energy and your money by being plugged in.
5) Simply, go around the house and look for things that you can unplug. We have this horrible tendency to think that because something is "off" that it doesn't use electricity. Well, it does.
There you go, you didn't have to buy anything, change your lifestyle dramatically, etc. and you just saved yourself a bunch of money on your electricity bill (almost sounds like a Geiko commercial).
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His BIG recommendation was changing out the light bulbs for energy effcient ones and we had already done about 1/2 of ours. Now have them all done..will see what that does to elec bill (if anything) And Hubby is insulating the attic too. Furnace has been up a bit higher tham I usually keep it during the day because Hubby and daughter have been home the last 2 weeks and they whine about being cold. I am good at 66* or 67* during the day and 63* at night...but Hubby keeps it on 68* and 65* at night if I don't catch him and scold him...LOL
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It is good for people to know.
I remember when I was a kid in the winter the B&W TV with all the tubes would take so long to warm up you could miss the beginning of a show. Part of the adjustment to the TV would be to bad it in the side ... somehow that used to work.
I already have the energy eficient bulbs.
I'll invest in some power strips with an off switch, as well.
Thanks for the info.
Good Luck!
10 for sharing!
I guess I should do it just to keep our condo fee from going up, but they already raised for the year anyhow. Someday...
Great article!!!!
I try to remeber on most stuff, but I so hate to shut down & unplug the computer stuff like that. It's hard to get to the plug, lol
I just wanted to say I am finally going through what is now under 6,200 pieces of gather new mail that is in my inbox on here. So with that in mind I have finally come to a piece of mail that was addressed to me in regards this article submission you have created to share with the gather community. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your piece with us here at gather. :o)
And I hope you have a Happy New Year... in 2009 :o)