It’s no surprise that you’re trying to figure out ways to cut expenditures. The logical place to look is your living costs, and a major cost of living is your energy bill.
Perhaps it’s much larger than it needs to be.
You might be running up your electric bill in ways you don’t even notice.
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When you do things that waste energy, you’re also throwing away your money. Decide you’re going to fervently find and address all the ways you’re leaking energy and money at home.
The enjoyable result of your diligence will be some relief from those large electric bills!
Check out these hidden energy drains that eat up your funds:
- Leaving your cell phone and electronic tablet chargers plugged in all the time. This might come as a shock but did you know that even if you don’t have your cell phone or tablet plugged in at the other end, these chargers are using energy?
- Speaking of chargers, if you leave your cell phone charging after it reaches 100%, it continues to waste valuable energy. So, avoid plugging your cell phone in at night before you go to bed. If you do, it will be draining wasted electricity all night.
- Not changing air filters often enough. Have you vowed to change your air conditioner/furnace filter monthly but then don’t do it? Your blower is trying to get precious warm or cool air to you through the vents. But the air can’t get through to be dispersed in your house if your filter is all clogged up with dust bunnies, pet hair, and dirt.
- Set your cell phone alarm to go off on the first of each month to remind you to change those filters. If appliances don’t have to work hard to heat and cool, you’ll save dollars.
- Using appliances that aren’t Energy Star. As you probably know, the Energy Star rating signifies reduced energy utilization to run the appliance, which is a good thing that saves you money.
- Even though it probably isn’t economically feasible to run right out and replace all your major appliances with Energy Star appliances, it does make sense to replace old, worn-out appliances with Energy Star products. Insist on Energy Star products when you’re shopping for new appliances.
- Having standard incandescent light bulbs. Do you avoid compact fluorescent bulbs? If you were to replace the 3 most used lights in your home with LED or compact fluorescent bulbs, you would be pleasantly surprised with the results on your electric bill.
- Appliances, gadgets, lamps, televisions, and more that stay plugged in all the time. Although it might be a hassle to unplug and plug in things frequently, the electric companies stress you can save some money if you only plug in items when you’re actually using them.
- It might be a bit more exercise to plug and unplug things, like the coffeepot, toaster, lamps, televisions and the like. But you stand to save considerable energy and dollars if you do.
- Water heaters set at too high a temperature. Sure, you like to take a hot shower, but does it have to be that hot? Think about the fact that if you set your water heater for 130 degrees, then it is constantly trying to keep all of the water it holds at that temperature, not knowing when you’ll need the water. You can see how that would waste energy and cost you money.
- Instead, reduce the temperature setting to 110 to 120 degrees. You’ll save quite a bit. In fact, consider installing tankless water heaters. They heat the water right at the faucet, which will save considerable energy and costs as compared to traditional water heaters.
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When it comes to saving costs to run your home, consider doing something about the above drains on your electricity and wallet.
You’ll feel great when you do what you can to reduce your energy and budget expenditures every single day.
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