A Simple Step to Saving Money

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I mentioned this in another Thread today, and from the responses to my post I realized that a lot of people might not know that you can drastically reduce your electrical bill by simply unplugging a few things around your house!

My wife and I have our entertainment center, which consists of a TV, DVD, VCR, and X-Box, connected to a surge protector that we keep out in the open so we can easily get to it. By switching off our entertainment center when we're not using it, ie. When we're sleeping and at work, we have lowered out electricity bill by $30.

The reason this works is that certain electronics, especially the TV, which is the worst culprit of them all, continually cycle power even when they're turned off. Your electrical meter measures all electricity that is cycled through your home. This means that you are paying the electric company NOT to watch your TV!

We also unplug our Microwave. You can unplug anything you want ( I leave my comp plugged in). We have a 1,000 sq/ft apartment, with gas heat, and last month we paid the electric company a whopping $23.00 (estimate)

So, if you want to save some serious money this is an excellent idea. Why should you pay money for electricity running through your TV when you're not even home to watch it?
 
thanks for the tip but hos is this related to gaming?

Also isnt your heat bill going to be higher with all the electronics you unplug not pumping out heat anymore :D
 
Another common culprit is low-quality DC transformers (wallworts). They cycle power even when a device is not attached.

Above poster is right: Good info, wrong forum.
 
Not a problem when you live in an apartment and dont pay utilities ... hell Sometimes I turn all electrical devices on, and let all the water taps run .... just for the hell of it. :D
 
bonkrowave said:
Not a problem when you live in an apartment and dont pay utilities ... hell Sometimes I turn all electrical devices on, and let all the water taps run .... just for the hell of it. :D
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Remember that the next time your rent goes up because the landlord is paying so much in utilities ;)

Nothing is life is free!
 
ThomasE66 said:
Remember that the next time your rent goes up because the landlord is paying so much in utilities ;)

Nothing is life is free!
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Apparently it is ... I just got a notification of rent going up .... and it went up 0$ ... a change of 0.0%.
 
Don't worry, it will catch up with you sooner or later. Karma always does ;)

Ok enough offtopic kidding around...
 
This thread is off topic .... its in the gaming section.

Karma ... Its funny how people make forces, or super beings up, to give them a reason for any trials or tribulations they go through.

NEWSFLASH Its all dumb luck.

Besides .... if Karma was real .... it would owe me. :D
 
LOL! Karma isn't a force or being...but I'm not getting into philosophy here. Besides, like I said I was KIDDING :)
 
Karma? How about the earth itself? There's not unlimited clean water and power you know. That's just bloody ignorant. Save something for your grandkids.
 
slowbiz said:
Karma? How about the earth itself? There's not unlimited clean water and power you know. That's just bloody ignorant. Save something for your grandkids.
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Your correct there is not unlimited clean water.... the earth itself has a life span. In a billion years the sun is going to expand before it collapses into a dwarf star, and when that happens the earth will be enveloped and destroyed.

Moral of the story .... dont take life to seriously ... no one gets out alive. :rolleyes:
 
I wonder when this thread is going to be shut down.

It's totally bad karma to think that way, and I do believe in karma. I don't think you should take life too seriously either, but you should consider others. I don't know how you can try to justify gluttony.
 
slowbiz said:
I wonder when this thread is going to be shut down.

It's totally bad karma to think that way, and I do believe in karma. I don't think you should take life too seriously either, but you should consider others. I don't know how you can try to justify gluttony.
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Apparently humor is lost on everyone who reads this thread.

ITS A FRIGGEN JOKE !!! :rolleyes:

Jesus ... does everyone in this forum come in with weapons loaded, trigger happy, ready to flame?
 
bonkrowave said:
Not a problem when you live in an apartment and dont pay utilities ... hell Sometimes I turn all electrical devices on, and let all the water taps run .... just for the hell of it. :D
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Wow, you really disgust me.

Some good tips in the original post.
 
I realize that you were probably joking. You still were defending your point though, so you can expect to hear the other side of it. Whatever, it's done.

To feel better about this I'm going to say something about gaming.

This weekend I beat marble madness. I'm never going to play that game again.
 
to the topic poster

How do you deal with losing your electronically remembered settings on these devices? Like the contrast and sound on your tv, or the clock on your vcr? I would totally do this if I didn't have to re-configure my stuff every time I used it.

Good info, regardless.
 
bonkrowave said:
In a billion years the sun is going to expand before it collapses into a dwarf star, and when that happens the earth will be enveloped and destroyed.
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Dang...how we gonna keep the 4000 Terahertz procs in our GAMING (staying in thread ;) ) systems cool when that happens?
 
not unplugging your appliances isn't gluttony. Now if you say, turn on all of your computers and monitors and have them stress testing, your A/C on high (because the computers are heating up the room just fine) leave your tv(s) on, your stove on, your water running, all the lights on, etc and leave, now that's not very thoughtful.


I don't unplug everything to save electricity because I feel that that is a pain in the butt to have to plug everything in, not that it's hard, just that you loose some ease of use. But I do turn off stuff that I'm not using, simply because I don't have tons of money to waste.
 
bonkrowave said:
This thread is off topic .... its in the gaming section.

Karma ... Its funny how people make forces, or super beings up, to give them a reason for any trials or tribulations they go through.

NEWSFLASH Its all dumb luck.

Besides .... if Karma was real .... it would owe me. :D
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I love how people make off topic posts in an off topic post and blame the thead starter for being off topic....also, its funny how people just assume this universe that they know nothing about just runs on dumb luck.
 
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