Turn off the heat overnight.

Provided that you don’t live in a region where it gets really cold, you may be able to completely turn off -or dramatically reduce – heat a night. Check out getting a programmable thermostat for making this happen automatically.
Minor note: Some refrigerators will not function correctly if the air temperate is below about 60F, you [...]

Using Ceiling Fans for Heating

Yes – a ceiling fan can make you warmer.
Let me explain – in the summer when you’re hot you turn the fan on high and blast the air down to cool off. That’s easy to understand. However, just about everybody also knows that hot air rises. Last I checked we’re are closer to the floor [...]

P3 International P4400 Kill A Watt Power Usage Monitor

From Amazon.com:
Product Description
The Electricity Detector and Electricity Monitor can reduce your monthly electric bill and help you save a lot of money. Electricity bills can be murder. But now with Kill a Watt you can cut down on costs and find out what machines are actually worth keeping plugged in. Simply connect your appliances to [...]

Programmable Thermostat

“The rule of thumb is that you can save about 3% on your heating bill for every degree that you set back your thermostat” full-time, says Bill Prindle, deputy director for the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Turn down the thermostat 10 degrees when you go to work, and again when you [...]

Check for the presence of water leaks

How do you know if water is leak – somewhere – in your house? It could be a slowly running toilet, a dripping sink- anything.
This is a fairly simple way to determine if you have a leak.
Generally you’ll want to do this when your home alone or when you’ll be gone for a few hours.
Step [...]