10 Free ways to be more energy efficient

I do all of them. Did you know that anything that has a light on it uses electricity all the time? Like surge protectors, microwaves, chargers, and other things. My son was leaving his phone charger plugged in all the time. He started unplugging it when I told him it was using electricity even when he wasn't using it.
 
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Long ago, people put drapes in doorways between rooms. That was a plan of mine if we lose central heat. I have several tension rods. To cut off rooms and stairway. Also insulating windows. Some people use bubble wrap which seems a good idea.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Long ago, people put drapes in doorways between rooms. That was a plan of mine if we lose central heat. I have several tension rods. To cut off rooms and stairway. Also insulating windows. Some people use bubble wrap which seems a good idea.
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We do that, too, @Mary Stetler . We have a curtain in the doorway to the kitchen, because there is no reason it needs any heat overnight. The last couple of years, we also had a curtain that went down the hall way to the bedroom, and so the only place we tried to heat in the daytime was the living room.
Then, at night we just closed the bedroom door and turned on the little electric heater in there plus the electric blanket, and we were fine.

When I was growing up, and we lived in north Idaho, we had an old house that only had a small oil stove for heat and not much for insulation, so it was always really cold in the winter.
My dad would use the snow shovel and pack snow around the bottom of the house all the way around, and it made good insulation to keep it warmer underneath the house, so the floors were not quite as cold.
He also took plastic sheeting and tacked it on all of the outside of the windows for insulation. We still got light, but you could not really see out of the windows with the plastic on them.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Jake is always turning things off, like the porch light or fan.
I tell him I'll give him 15 cent for the extra minute.
I'll come inside for a minute to check on what's cooking, walk back out and its light out.
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Must be related to my hubby. ;)
Yvonne Smith said:
We do that, too, @Mary Stetler . We have a curtain in the doorway to the kitchen, because there is no reason it needs any heat overnight. The last couple of years, we also had a curtain that went down the hall way to the bedroom, and so the only place we tried to heat in the daytime was the living room.
Then, at night we just closed the bedroom door and turned on the little electric heater in there plus the electric blanket, and we were fine.

When I was growing up, and we lived in north Idaho, we had an old house that only had a small oil stove for heat and not much for insulation, so it was always really cold in the winter.
My dad would use the snow shovel and pack snow around the bottom of the house all the way around, and it made good insulation to keep it warmer underneath the house, so the floors were not quite as cold.
He also took plastic sheeting and tacked it on all of the outside of the windows for insulation. We still got light, but you could not really see out of the windows with the plastic on them.
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People today don't know how to live without conveniences. That is why power outages are such a threat. And they have technology that sucks their common sense out so they can't be creative in solving problems.
It ain't broke it just needs duct tape.
 
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