Save Energy and Save Money

Save Energy and Save Money

by Jane Cocker

Check out these instant FREE ways to save money and energy:

Cost: Your laundry hides two appliances that cost you a load! Your
washing machine and clothes dryer cost you money and energy savings on a
daily basis. A hot wash with warm rinse for example, will set you back
about 80 cents a pop; a quick load in the clothes dryer has you paying
about 45 cents each time.

Freebie: Replace your hot water with cold, instantly saving up to 50
cents per wash. Over a year this could be as much as $167.00 in savings!
Switch to air-drying your clothing rather than operating the dryer and
put another $135.00 away a year for rainy days!

Cost: A typical 75 watt incandescent light globe uses about 5 cents an
hour to run. Households use multiple light fittings and we ‘flick the
switch' so often that these little power suckers are guilty of costing us
up to $110 a year to run.

Freebie: If you aren't in the room, switch your lights off. Simple!
Replace standard bulbs with energy savings; energy-efficient bulbs last
up to six times longer and use 80 percent less energy. What a great idea!

Cost: Are you still running your 1972 cooler-box as a ‘beer fridge'?
Older appliances are energy-hungry, gobbling up to $90 more a year to run
than current energy-efficient models. If you have an ice-chest from the
Ice Age that you keep bait in too, then add another $75 a year to your
energy costs. Freebie: Get rid of your aging or faulty appliances and
replace them with star-rated energy efficient ones. And finally, you'll
have a lot more money left over for fresh bait and cold beers if you just
get rid of that rusted fridge in your back shed!

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British writer living and working in Buenos Aires.

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