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Originally Posted by John Nelson  it's amazing how quickly a whole bunch of those 11 cents add up to real money. |
You got that right, John! And it works in reverse, too.
My first-ever under-$100 electric bill in 8 years was last month. We accomplished it by simply turning lights off when they weren't in use. I figured that at any given time, we were pulling a couple hundred unnecessary kwh. Here's how stupidly simple it was to save about $40 a month:
-- Turn off the halogen under-cab lights in the kitchen in the evenings. They look nice when we walk into the kitchen, but if we're in another room, no one is there to see.
-- Turn off the dimmed rope lights above the kitchen cabs in the evenings. See above.
-- Unplug ten 7-watt night lights plugged into outlets in rooms that don't need them.
-- Turn all of the outside lights off unless I'm expecting someone to visit.
-- Shut the computers down. A two-minute wait for them to boot is much more economical than leaving them on.
How stupid is that? And why didn't I do it six years ago?