What do you do to save energy in your home?

The energy-saver that I spend the most energy on is running behind husband and kids turning off things they leave on. Lights, tv, stereo - they just wander off and leave everything running. My husband will make an entire sandwich with the refrigerator door hanging open. No matter how often I explain about energy waste and the cost and damage to the planet. They simply don't care. And paper towels!! It's criminal the amount of paper towels used here. My husband goes to the discount warehouse and buys them in bulk. I've clipped articles, emailed articles to him - it doesn't sink in. In this day and age, it's hard to imagine someone not doing at least the very minimum to preserve our planet. When I was a little girl, my grandfather would unplug the lamps and appliances (not the fridge) every night before going to bed. He claimed that they all were draining energy throughout the night. I try to talk to my stepkids, figuring that they are young enough to influence (8 and 10), but then they see their father doing it and follow his example instead. I think that the greatest way to save more energy is by educating our children. Instilling in them a sense of responsibility and respect for this planet.

By energy, you mean electricity, right? Here are the ways I save: Turn the computer off at night, limit shower time, use the microwave instead of a kitchen range to cook or heat food, keep lights turned off except the ones you are really using. Do things like take a shower during daylight if you can, to avoid using lighting. Wash dishes only when you have enough, use a washer only when you have a full load. Avoid using the dryer and hang clothes to dry instead. Look up frugal living sites on the internet and follow as many of the ideas there as you can. I can't write everything here, but there are a lot of ways to save energy.

We always turn of the lights when leaving a room. We only have one electric owen - we have a woodburning one that we use to heat most of the apartment. We also keep the temperature lower in the bedrooms.

whait to have plenty of clothes to whash before setting up the machine, use rechargeable batteries, rather keep the light on a bit longer than switching it on and off as you enter and geto out of the same pleace one time after the other. don't use too many little electrodomestic tools. Well, It's very nice to hear about people like you taking care of there things. Last time it was my biology teacher in highschool to show serious attention to the topic!!!

I also changed my bulbs from the 200 watts to the 25 to 30 watt tube like bulbs. They consume very less energy. We never switch on the lights of the rooms in which we have no work at that time and also use the AC limitedly. After taking all these measures our electricity bills were cut to one forth of the previous ones.

This post is very intresting, i find it very important and there are lot of good ideas for save energy and protect our world! Very good post! :-)

I run around behind people all day and night turning off lights that are not in use, and appliances and computers which no one is using but which they are constantly leaving on.

i try as much as i can about saving power. turning the lights off through out the day, only having the lights on that are needed usually just the kitchen and lounge room, because i know i had people living in same house as me and they use to like nearly have every single light on and it really annoyed.

In my home if you are not in a room the lights better be off. I think that is such a waste of energy leaving them on when you are not using them. Even when you are in a room and the light is on and it is not being used it is then turned off. My tv's are on energy saving mode. The picture may not be a bright but that doesn't matter to me. I have energy efficent light bulbs too.

i do my best to save energy whenever possble ,coz i use a lot of it too ,but i do save also ,switching off the fan and lights the second i am out of the room ,reducing the ac usage to the max ,

When my boyfriend isn't here during the day on the weekdays (Monday through Friday), I turn off the air conditioner, which really makes my electricity bill the highest. I also don't leave the TV on when no one is watching it, especially during the times of day I am on my computer, doing homework or whatever.

Keep all the lights off if there is no one in room. All my light bulbs are the energy saving ones. I replaced all my Christmas lights with LED this year, and put them on timers. During the winter my furnace is set at 67, and in the summer the central air is set to 80. I only wash full loads of laundry, and wash in cold water. Limit the amount of time in the shower, and have a low flush toilet. Have insulation on my water pipes. Change the filter on the furnace every 30 days.

i use florecent lightbulbs to save energy.

Hi all good ideas,another is turning your heating down a couple of degrees you won't notice the drop in temp but it will reduce your heating bill.Also draw curtains at night that will keep the heat in.Best advice i can give for saving money is shop about for quotes on everything their is differences in prices out their.even go to the shops and buy the 2 for 1 offers

Have some general principles to save energy. Switch off unwantd lights and fans. Try to serve food to all at one perticular time so that the food is heated only once. Keep the low consumption bulbs and avoid high wattage bulbs. You can avoid using your car for small distances. Try to walk. it will improve your health as well as saves energy.

I buy notebooks/laptops instead of PCs, they consume as little elecricity as a lightbulb, all rooms except the hall hace fluorecent lights, the old tv got thrown away for a LCD one (consumes 1/20th the electricity), we collect the dirty water from the washing machine to water the plants, and we grow our own vegetables.

First of all I always close the lights when I'm not in the room and I almost never use the air conditioner, even if I do use it I set it to a normal temperature like 20 degrees and not 12, it also helps to save energy.

I have a small 13 lcd TV that replaced a 13 inch regular TV. I also have a 17 inch LCD monitor that replaced a 17 in regular monitor. CFL lighting, only run one heater for the back room instead of both. And I don't even pay the eletric bill here:) My landlord does

hi yes..i do the same thing.. i use 2 energy saving bulb i switch off the tv when it's on standby... well, if you want to save energy you can buy new fridges, dishwashers..and so on.. they make you save energy...but they are more expensive than the others...that's why people don't buy them...

I have added many numerous features into my place. I know some save very little if any, but it all adds up. 1) I have swapped most if not all bulbs to 40 watts where I could. At most, there might be a 40 and 60 watt bulb in the same light. 2) Dimmers where I could. One place that has too much light is my bathroom and bedroom (even with only 40 watt bulbs). Therefore I added a dimmer switch to each light so I could turn them down when I don't need them all the way up. 3) Ceiling fans in every room. They are just basic ceiling fans, nothing fancy, so I can turn them on to circulate air faster making it feel cooler during the summer. 4) Motion sensor light at my garage. One problem many have is when they come home with groceries their arms are too loaded to turn the light off. Therefore I added a motion switch light immediately inside my garage door. The light stays on long enough for me to get into my place, down my stairs, and halfway to the kitchen (at which point I'm past all the lights on that switch) before it automatically turns off after 30 seconds. No more setting groceries down and then rushing over to turn the light off. 5) Programmable thermostat. This doesn't work that well during the winter since I have a heat pump and when it gets too cold the emergency heat turns on (generally if it has to heat up more than 2 degrees) but I expect it to save me alot during the summer. I can raise the temperature while I'm at work and then have it nice and cool once I get home. 6) Energy Star appliances all around. When I purchased my appliances I heavily compared the energy used for each one. I bought the most efficient in each category with the options I needed. Those are my methods that I use.