The ones that we do are unplug everything that we don't use as often. One of my lamps in the living room is always unplugged, we always charge our cell phones and unplug it after the charge is complete. I only run my dishwasher and clothes washer at night. They say that the rates are lower at night than in the day. Check with your provider to see if this is true for you also. Another thing which I just started this month is...We have 2 spare bedrooms (no kiddos) so I had Dh put up a clothes line in the biggest of the two and over top of the heat register, I wash my clothes at night then hang them up, the next morning they are completely dry, even jeans, and sweaters! I have heard that the dryer is one of our biggest energy consumers so I'm trying to cut this out all but for a few minutes per load to fluff up clothing items if they need it after being dried on the line. Also we have a programmable thermostat and I have been keeping it at 65 day and night, I hate the cold but I've learned to just bundle up better instead of running around in a tshirt and comfy shorts. Hope that helps you. In December my bill was only $111, last month it was higher because I got away from trying to conserve and had the heat cranked in the house so it was $144, also we had an increase in our distribution and rider charge due to the outage we had back in September. Ticks me off that even though we didn't have electric they are backcharging us so that they can make their money back on what they lost!
We will see what it is this coming month though, hopefully lower.
