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Ways to save serious money on utilities

September 22, 2011 12 Comments

With winter approaching, it’s best to think ahead and be prepared for the upcoming cold season. This means to cut back and save money on your utilities as much as possible. I’ve noticed that every winter, it gets colder and colder and the storms gets worse and worse. Maybe it’s global warming? Whatever the case may be, the only thing you can do is prevent energy from escaping your house and keeping cost down. I briefly touched on this subject in Finding Ways to Spend Less, but now I want to get into the little details and provide you with few more ways to save on utilities.

  • Put a carton of water or something around that size that is sealed into the toilet water tank. By doing this, you’re displacing water in the tank and thus use less water. Be careful not to put something big or else you will have to flush twice and therefore wasting more energy. Try to experiment with it.
  • Replace your shower heads with ones that provide stronger water flow. This only works if you take short showers as it provide more water to get you clean faster and more efficient. The idea is cut your shower short and at the same time get you more clean.
  • Get a surge protector and plug ALL of your major electronics such as TVs, modems, computers into the surge protector. Set a timer on it so that it only turns on when you get home from work or school.
  • Turn off the sink while brushing your teeth will save you a bundle in the future. This seems to be a habit for most people, but one that is very easy to break if you remember.
  • Lower the heat a little bit while you’re sleeping in the winter or if you’re the lazy type, get a programmable thermostat and let it do the work. Use more blankets and hug your significant other. If you don’t have a significant other, then buy a long pillow and hug that instead.
  • Insulate your attic if you have one because heat rises and the only place it can go is up. If you have a wide open attic with nothing to stop heat from going out then you’re losing a LOT of energy.
  • Use LED lights for your Christmas decorations outside the house as it uses 99 less energy than the traditional lights.
  • Search out affordable home security online, there are many reputable companies and no reason to pay more to feel secure.
  • Eat in and use the oven more often. This will save you money from eating out and at the same time you can use the oven as a heat source after baking, all you do is open it up and let the heat out.
  • Let sunlight in during the day to allow it to naturally heat your home and make sure to close it at night to keep the cold from coming in.

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  1. SB @ One Cent At A Time says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    AC and water heater along with freezer are huge energy consuming devices. There are many ways to reduce energy cost on these items.
    Good list Aaron

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    • Aaron Hung says

      September 22, 2011 at 3:54 pm

      Thanks SB, I took your advice from the last few post and tried to dig more into the topic.

      Reply
  2. funancials says

    September 22, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Finding a significant other to hug will be costly. I would just keep the heat up 🙂

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    • Aaron Hung says

      September 22, 2011 at 5:23 pm

      Costly? haha maybe you’re right

      Reply
  3. Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter says

    September 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    Great tips. I agree with them all and in fact practice many of these. It is getting colder where I live now so instead of turning up the heat I am getting out my slippers and sweaters.

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  4. krantcents says

    September 23, 2011 at 12:38 am

    Good points. I would add a cold water wash for the laundry.

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  5. retirebyforty says

    September 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    We are doing most of these already except putting something in the tank. I usually flush after a few uses… Yeah, that’s how we roll in Oregon.

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  6. 20's Finances says

    September 24, 2011 at 12:02 am

    I have never heard of putting something in the tank! Great tips! Like retireby40, our motto is pretty much the same. Only flush every few times.

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  7. UltimateSmartMoney says

    September 25, 2011 at 2:43 am

    Lowering the heat I think saves you the most. I have electric heaters in our bedrooms which I use during the winter nights. This way, the furnace does not have to work hard to heat the whole house at night time. I also use programmable thermostats to turn on the heater before I get up in the morning. It works well for me and have been saving a lot of energy cost.

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  8. Matt @Financial Excellence says

    September 26, 2011 at 3:24 am

    We use all of these except we have low flow shower heads, mainly because I take long showers. Haven’t used the object in the toilet tank because we have low flow toilets.

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  9. Jonny says

    September 28, 2011 at 4:46 am

    Aaron, I liked the LED light concept. More or less I always try to save as much as I can.

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  10. Jen @ Master the Art of Saving says

    October 4, 2011 at 7:07 am

    It’s really nice to not be reading the same tips everybody else gives out. LED lights and using the oven are really great ideas. 🙂 So are the others, I just see these working more for my situation.

    Reply

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