How do you cut your electric bill?
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You may also be interested in this article.
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-save-on-your-energy-bill
The basic things these say are :
1. Do an electricity audit through which you may come to know which appliances use most of your electricity.
2. Replace the ones which use more energy with energy efficient ones. E.g : Light Bulbs.
3. Maintain a regular schedule on maintenance.
Hope this helps !
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M$2) Keep my heat on 70 in the winter, turn down to 65-68 at night (depends. If it's not too cold, I'll leave it on 68, turn it down lower if colder, so it doesn't come on as much). I use ceiling fans, box fans, and wrap up in extra clothes instead of heating/cooling.
3) Turn off lights when I leave a room. This was tough for me, because I have a bad habit of having every light in the house on, but I've gotten much better at it.
4) I have old sliding aluminum windows, which aren't easy to insulate, so I keep curtains and blinds drawn during the coldest and hottest parts of the day.
5) Replace weather stripping around doors. My front door was horrid! I could see sunlight all the way around it. I replaced the weather stripping this year, and was shocked how much warmer it was.
6) Wash clothes in cold water, unless I'm doing a load of whites with bleach, then I use warm, not hot.
7) Hang clothes to dry. I actually tumble them in the dryer on low for 10 minutes to dewrinkle before I hang them, and they hardly have any wrinkles at all.
8) Take 5 minutes showers, no longer. I do once in awhile take a longer shower when I'm really dirty from working outside, but I do it military style - turn the water on, get wet, turn it off, lather up and wash, and then turn it back on to rinse. Once in a great while, I take a long, hot tub bath, but with the lupus, it's hard for me to get in and out of the tub, so not very often.
9) Keep the freezer as full as possible, to make the frig more efficient.
10) Use my laptop instead of my desktop and watch most t.v. shows online instead of on t.v.
11) Unplug anything that has a glowing light, or that keeps itself warm (like t.v.'s) when I'm not watching them. I read that your appliances like that use 75% of their power when they are off. If a light is glowing, it's using power.
That's about it.
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http://ezinearticles.com/?10-Ways-To-Cut-Your-Electric-Bill&id=140334
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/electric-bill-47020704
http://www.essortment.com/home/cutelectricity_scvz.htm
http://consumerist.com/2007/03/attention-you-cut-your-electric-bill-by-almost-half.html
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