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Money Saving Monday: Utility Savings

January 25, 2010 at 8:32 am 3 Comments  

money-saving-mondayThere are a variety of ways to lower the costs on utility bills you already have to pay—budget billing, comparison shopping and simple alternatives are some of the easiest. They don’t require you to reduce your consumption in anyway. You only have to work with your current provider or consider finding a new one. Real impact in your bills comes when you find ways to decrease your actual use. One quick, obvious way to lower your electric bill is to turn off items when not in use. But, did you know many electrical products continue to use power even in standby mode?

Of course, it’s kind of a pain to walk around unplugging things every night. Not to mention the precious items you can’t unplug like DVRs and cable boxes. That’s where this doodad really comes in handy—it allows you to cut power to several items at once while leaving a select few in standby at all times. This particular model even allows you to select one item as the control outlet. You could plug your t.v. into the control, your DVR into the always on outlets and the rest of your home theater system into the other outlets. Every time you turn off the television, the power gets cut to the rest of the strip!

Now, we want to hear your ideas for saving money on utitities! The rules are simple: write about the given topic, mention MSM and link back to Inexpensively in your post, then come back here to add your permalink in the Mr. Linky. Be sure to grab the banner to let everyone know you’re participating! If you do not have a blog of your own, you are welcome to share your tips in the comments. Then, check out the great tips from Team Inexpensively and our readers.

We love to hear about your tips, tricks and frugal living ideas each Monday. Next week kicks off our new “For the Love Of…” series. We’ll be offering advice on doing the things you love, on a budget. Join us on Money Saving Monday to share your tips for Superbowl Sunday—I know my Indy friends will be ready to go all out, but let’s keep it frugal!

Filed Under: Home and Garden Tagged With: Money Saving Monday, utilities

About Heather Sokol

Heather Sokol is the founder of Inexpensively. She has been married to Spencer for many, many years. Together, they have five kids, fourteen pets, seven fish, and a web development company. What they lack is sanity.

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Comments

  1. Jose says

    January 27, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    Here’s a good way to lower monthly bills: switch from your contract cell phone plane to a prepaid plan. I recently switched from my AT&T plan (where I was paying $80 a month) to a prepaid plan on the Verizon Wireless network. Now I am paying $45 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. The plan is called Straight Talk. It is amazing for families with kids and students in college. Even better — I didn’t buy mine at some expensive electronics or phone store, I bought mine at WalMart!! I have saved so much thanks to this plan.

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