I use powerstrips and just toggle those on and off.

Want to lower electric costs, no EVs, more nuclear power generation, suffer through hot summers and wear sweaters.

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.

My husband is an electrical engineer and actually works on appliance efficiency. He says your appliances are not drawing power when they are not turned on. It's a switch and it's off. Unplugging doesn't matter. He says the bolded is correct.

It’s not about paying for the electricity you are using. It is that you are also paying for electricity needed for the AI data centers so they can get good enough to take your job.

Chargers use electricity even when not charging. Most other appliances use no electricity and it should be obvious which ones apply. For example, a toaster doesn't use anything unless it has a LED display that is always on. Then it uses maybe 2 cents with at most. Unplugging everything you aren't using may save you about 98 cents on your electric bill. Your nutty husband will never see the difference.

Things that do make a difference: Make sure your water heater is set no higher than 120ºF. Wash all your clothes in cold water. Don't always turn on the hot water when you are rinsing dishes. It makes little difference.
Wash and dry full loads of clothes or just don't wash everything as often. An electric dryer uses a LOT of energy. Open the windows at night and let the house cool down, close them in the morning-especially the windows on the sunny side of the house, close the curtains and don't turn on the AC. I haven't run my AC or heat since the last week of August. When you do run the heat, set it on 68ºF and put on more clothes if you are cold, or get up and do something active. If you have to run the AC, and you shouldn't for the next 6 months, set it no lower than 78ºF. If you are running a dehumidifier in the basement, set it on 55% humidity. Most people seem to set them on 40%, the lowest setting which is crazy. It will run non-stop and use a lot of juice. Also, clean the filter on the dehumidifier. Over half the people I visit have never cleaned the filter and don't even know where it's located so the thing runs non-stop and barely works.

If you have teenagers who take long showers try this trick. Locate the water valve that feeds the water heater. Once the kid has been in the shower for about 10 minutes, choke that valve down about half way. The kid will then adjust the water temp but turning it more towards hot but that should be a warning he/she is running out of hot water. Give it a minute then choke it off a little more. Then finally, turn it all the way closed and the kid will hop out quickly. Do that a few times and they will learn to take quicker showers and probably complain that the hot water runs out fast so it's probably broken. Thank me later. It's not only effective, it's amusing as hell.

My wife has never met a light she didn’t like to leave on. It’s leaving on irons and hair curlers that drives me nuts. Oh, let me add stove burners! Again last night.

Our bill was very high and then we updated a couple appliances to newer ones and the bill went down. I think our very old appliances were draining electricity. Something to consider.

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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.

Nobody on this forum needs to pinch pennies. This is about virtue signaling points.

WTF does that even mean? My wife and I earned 300k+ annually for the last decade, (535k last year), and I still hate waste. I unlpug all these things and I cut the water.

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to a time in my life when this is something I would be thinking about and would have the interest and commitment level to execute on daily. I'm just trying to feed people who live with me and make sure we all have clean clothes. Sounds amazing though.

+1

We got today done, didn't we?

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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.

Nobody on this forum needs to pinch pennies. This is about virtue signaling points.

Where do you come up with this crap from? h)the op basically said she's trying to figure out ways to get her electric bill nothing to do with virtue signaling. I f****** hate you people

At any rate, if you look around, electric bills are up Around the country. I'm not sure There's much you can do except for what a PP said ... your biggest source of electricity is Hvac. This where you can make the most dent in your bill.

That said, I don't expect it to influence my bill, but at the risk of sounding like a virtue signaler, I do unplug vampire sources of electricity

Lord girl. Why ya so angry at everybody?

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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.

Nobody on this forum needs to pinch pennies. This is about virtue signaling points.

Where do you come up with this crap from? h)the op basically said she's trying to figure out ways to get her electric bill nothing to do with virtue signaling. I f****** hate you people

At any rate, if you look around, electric bills are up Around the country. I'm not sure There's much you can do except for what a PP said ... your biggest source of electricity is Hvac. This where you can make the most dent in your bill.

That said, I don't expect it to influence my bill, but at the risk of sounding like a virtue signaler, I do unplug vampire sources of electricity

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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.

Nobody on this forum needs to pinch pennies. This is about virtue signaling points.

Anonymous wrote:Wait - if I don’t unplug my microwave, it can explode and set fire to my house?

There is a non-zero chance of this happening. Better safe than sorry, pull the meter when you leave the house.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/microwaves-a-fire-hazard-in-your-kitchen-082815.html

Wait - if I don’t unplug my microwave, it can explode and set fire to my house?

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. Do you have any idea why your electric bill has gone up? Because ours has not. But we typically keep the house at around 74 degrees year-round, and windows open when the weather cooperates, which it has a lot recently.