I mean other than "turn the lights off" kind of thing.
We're at home all day every day so utilities matter a lot for us. I just found out STBX bought a non-energy star stove and dishwasher when he replaced them; I'm fuming because the goal was to get HE everything in the house. I've replaced all the lightbulbs already and washer/dryer, we're getting a new efficiency furnace, and when I have money I will also get a new fridge because ours is really old now.
I also hang dry most items and wait until I have a full load to wash things.
We don't have AC but in the winter we do turn the heat up as we all get cold easily, although we will try to layer with warmer clothes this winter. We have heat saving curtains but will also be bubble wrapping our windows this winter because there's still a lot of heat loss through them, and putting up window quilts on our front window too (that doesn't have a curtain now).
What else can I be doing?
I'm thinking along the lines of especially in the kitchen; I cook from scratch and I feel like the stove or oven is on all day. I do have a slow cooker which I like to use but I don't have TOO many recipes on it. I mostly panfry or bake.
We also boil a lot of water; would one of those water heating kettles be more or less efficient than the stove?
I'm kinda glad STBX is moving out with his huge plasma TV's and energy suckers. That thing like doubled our electricity bill when he bought it home.
And it's downstairs in his part of the house anyway so it's not like we even watch it, it's just always ON.
We're at home all day every day so utilities matter a lot for us. I just found out STBX bought a non-energy star stove and dishwasher when he replaced them; I'm fuming because the goal was to get HE everything in the house. I've replaced all the lightbulbs already and washer/dryer, we're getting a new efficiency furnace, and when I have money I will also get a new fridge because ours is really old now.
I also hang dry most items and wait until I have a full load to wash things.
We don't have AC but in the winter we do turn the heat up as we all get cold easily, although we will try to layer with warmer clothes this winter. We have heat saving curtains but will also be bubble wrapping our windows this winter because there's still a lot of heat loss through them, and putting up window quilts on our front window too (that doesn't have a curtain now).
What else can I be doing?
I'm thinking along the lines of especially in the kitchen; I cook from scratch and I feel like the stove or oven is on all day. I do have a slow cooker which I like to use but I don't have TOO many recipes on it. I mostly panfry or bake.
We also boil a lot of water; would one of those water heating kettles be more or less efficient than the stove?
I'm kinda glad STBX is moving out with his huge plasma TV's and energy suckers. That thing like doubled our electricity bill when he bought it home.
And it's downstairs in his part of the house anyway so it's not like we even watch it, it's just always ON.
Washer is, water-heater is, heating is electric as well. Stove too, and dishwasher. Dryer is too but we only use that once every couple of weeks if something has to dry in a hurry. Umm our fishtank has electric stuff, and then the computer and accessories and a radio are electric. Fridge. Vaccuum for the upstairs. I don't know what else there can be that's not. We usually don't turn on lights in the evenings, a couple of lamps sometimes but we turn in early, or have LED Christmas lights or candles. We have energy saving lightbulbs for the lamps regardless but try to not to turn them on and even not bother replacing a few older ones that burned out, so there's fewer lamps to just leave on at whim.
The month after I turned that off, our bill dropped $6 consistently. Six dollars a month is not large, but when it is from ONE device you get a feeling about all this stuff.
That's the one thing that showed a very significant drop in our electricity bill. After having owned a hot tub and realizing that 110 degrees was plenty high for all of our showering needs we dropped it from the much higher temperature down to there. Try it and see 
We've been doing the same thing for all our media stuff and I definitely haven't seen that much of a difference in our electric bill. But I just bought a 
