Cost of electricity getting you down?

Cost of electricity getting you down?

Then tame the beast, put your home on an electricity diet. You can reduce your homes electricity consumption if you download this PDF file from Rainy Day Services. There are several inexpensive ways shown to cut your electricity consumption. The main ones are switching from incandescent to fluorescent bulbs. Lowes has them on sale 7 bulbs for $9.00+tax. They save on electricity and pay for themselves, after that you are in the $aving$ Zone. Unplug or power off all unnecessary or less often used items, such as cell phone chargers, laser printers, monitor's, PC's, VCR's, DVD's and video games. All these items are either electricity hogs or vampires, using a small amount of electricity but added togther can really add up. Replace your thermostat with an electronic one that is programmable so when you are not home you are not heating and cooling the house as much, thus using less electricity. Check out the TXU website for a host of ideas. Saving electricity can be as simple as lowering the temperature in the house in the winter and raising it in the summer. I use every idea I can find and have found that average billing helps to keep those "surprise large electric bills" to a more modest sum I can handle each month. If you have other suggestions or web sites that can really save the green by going green, let us know.