Monday, February 23, 2009

Ways to cut that darn electric bill!

As you know Electricity is way to expensive. How many appliances do you have that are "secretly" increasing your bill?

Lets look at my kitchen, I have the convection oven, toaster, microwave, can opener, electric tea kettle, oven, rice cooker, food sealer.

Of those I unplug when not using the convection oven, toaster, can opener, electric tea kettle and the food sealer. Of those I know for sure that when not unplugged the convection oven and sealer pull electricity because they have "lights" on them.

So lets see if those 2 appliances, pull even .5 Kw an hour, that is 24 hrs x .6 = 12 Kw a day times 30 days = an extra 360 kw a month, that is enough to bump you into a whole extra level.

I also unplug the electric toothbrush when it is fully charged, the laptop, I always turn off the computer, etc. Anything that has a "light" on it that you aren't using should be turned off so it isn't secretly increasing your bill!

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