Anonymous wrote:You won't see a major impact on your electricity bill from unplugging things. Assuming your using modern efficiency light bulbs you also won't see much impact from turning off the lights more. Biggest bang for your buck is changing your AC/heat use, major appliances and electric car charging. But honestly I don't think you're going to be able to make a huge dent in your bill.

This. You can unplug all you want, but it won’t move the needle on your bill.

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Anonymous wrote:While I do not unplug my appliances while not in use, I have heard that doing so saves energy so I am very curious to hear the responses.

One thing I always unplug is my phone charger 🔌 when I am not charging my iPhone.
However I keep my fans, lamps, TV still plugged in when not in use.

Why unplug phone charger?

The old school linear power supplies were terribly inefficient and on all the time in a certain sense. Just about everything uses switch mode power supplies that have a quiescent state.

But unplugging your phone charger every time you don't use will save less than 10 cents a month. Is that too much hassle?

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Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Hyperventilating nonsense.
"Energy vampires" cost less than one old light bulb.

https://green.nd.edu/assets/32451/turn_energy_vampires.pdf

You posted a link that contradicts what you said. Odd. A.I. glitch?

Surprising how 40% of your electrical use from appliances is from electronics like TV's in stand-by mode.

THEY ARE LISTENING.

DP. A PDF copyrighted in 2005, back when we had 200W CPUs.

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Anonymous wrote:While I do not unplug my appliances while not in use, I have heard that doing so saves energy so I am very curious to hear the responses.

One thing I always unplug is my phone charger 🔌 when I am not charging my iPhone.
However I keep my fans, lamps, TV still plugged in when not in use.

Why unplug phone charger?

The old school linear power supplies were terribly inefficient and on all the time in a certain sense. Just about everything uses switch mode power supplies that have a quiescent state.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Hyperventilating nonsense.
"Energy vampires" cost less than one old light bulb.

https://green.nd.edu/assets/32451/turn_energy_vampires.pdf

You posted a link that contradicts what you said. Odd. A.I. glitch?

Surprising how 40% of your electrical use from appliances is from electronics like TV's in stand-by mode.

THEY ARE LISTENING.

Anonymous wrote:While I do not unplug my appliances while not in use, I have heard that doing so saves energy so I am very curious to hear the responses.

One thing I always unplug is my phone charger 🔌 when I am not charging my iPhone.
However I keep my fans, lamps, TV still plugged in when not in use.

Why unplug phone charger?

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Anonymous wrote:Probably the biggest way to use less electricity is to have a smaller house in the first place.

Or turn up or down your thermostat.

This. 70% + of household energy use is from the AC/Heater, or space heaters.
Water heater and oven use are next biggest consumers.
Refrigerator and freezers and dryer account for the next big uses.
Then things like ceiling fans constantly on, hair dryers, irons, speakers.
Then appliances and tech gadgets where things like energy vampire topic comes in.
Then light bulbs are about last in energy use, even if incandescent.

While I do not unplug my appliances while not in use, I have heard that doing so saves energy so I am very curious to hear the responses.

One thing I always unplug is my phone charger 🔌 when I am not charging my iPhone.
However I keep my fans, lamps, TV still plugged in when not in use.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Hyperventilating nonsense.
"Energy vampires" cost less than one old light bulb.

https://green.nd.edu/assets/32451/turn_energy_vampires.pdf

light bulbs were never a big energy user. It was all a scam to push LED, which are bad for your eyes btw.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Hyperventilating nonsense.
"Energy vampires" cost less than one old light bulb.

https://green.nd.edu/assets/32451/turn_energy_vampires.pdf

"It's new. I don't like it!"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Hyperventilating nonsense.
"Energy vampires" cost less than one old light bulb.

https://green.nd.edu/assets/32451/turn_energy_vampires.pdf

Anonymous wrote:Probably the biggest way to use less electricity is to have a smaller house in the first place.

Or turn up or down your thermostat.

Anonymous wrote:Our electricity bill (NOVA) has gone through the roof. We have kids but we are pretty strict in turning off lights and things. Now my husband is saying we have to start unplugging all our appliances (Not the Fridge) and other electric things to save money. I leave my lights plugged in, my charger, my computer. Will it really save that much electricity to unplug when we aren't using?

Look up "energy vampires". Many new appliances have webcams, microphones for listening to you, etc. that can use a lot of power.

Put them on power strips instead of constantly wearing out the plugs. Switch the Flip and relax.

Probably the biggest way to use less electricity is to have a smaller house in the first place.

its always a good idea to do that anyway. unplug away.