Would you like to reduce your household bills? Try these four simple changes to see how much of a difference you can make in your budget!
Running a home can be an enjoyable experience. But if finances are tight, you’re under constant pressure to rein in bills and keep your spending under control. And if you live with other people, that’s not always easy.
Fortunately, there are a bunch of small changes that you can make to bring down household bills – and FAST!
Here’s what to do:
Install LED Light Bulbs
LED light bulbs are a gift to people on a strict budget. These lighting options only use about 10 percent of the electricity of similar bulbs to produce the same amount of light. That’s because they don’t rely on heating a filament to generate light. Instead, they use diodes that convert electricity directly into photons, skipping the heating stage.
What’s more, these light bulbs also last about ten times longer than traditional bulbs (and probably longer). And, again, this comes down to the fact that they don’t rely on heat. There’s no filament to wear out. Thus, when you buy an LED light bulb, it’s pretty much with you for life.
Stop Paying Monthly For Your Electricity
Paying a monthly bill for your electricity puts you in a frame of mind that says that you can use as much of it as you like, and you’ll still wind up with a bill at the end of the month.
That, however, isn’t the best option when you’re trying to save money. Often it encourages you to pay more than what you need, just because it is a recurring experience.
No deposit electricity is different. Here you pay in installments to “top up” the amount that you have available. You can then watch it running down every time you turn on the TV or switch on your porch light. This change in how you pay can have enormous ramifications for how much electricity you actually use. When you can see your reserves falling, you’re much more likely to switch off lights before you leave the house.
Air Seal Your Home
Drafts aren’t just annoying – they’re also anathema to keeping household bills down. When cold air comes into your home, it means that warm air is leaving – and that’s costing you money.
A lot of people, therefore, choose to air seal their homes. The idea here is to patch up all the gaps around windows, under doors, and in the roof that allows warm air to escape and cool air to enter. You’ll need to spend a little bit of money on professional services to get the job done, but once it is in place, you can look forward to much lower bills in the future.
Use Power Strips
With today’s proliferation of devices, it isn’t practical to go around turning off and unplugging everything at night. There’s just so much stuff in your home to unhook.
Fortunately, you can use power strips to do the job for you. Power strips with timers are devices you can pre-program to turn off at a given time, usually at night. This way, you’re not continually feeding juice to your electronics when they don’t need it.
How do you reduce your household bills? Share your tips below!
