11. Cooking big meals in a big crock pot will also help in making
sure there is plenty of good hot food to eat and will save you time
and money on your power bill.
12. Limit your luxuries. Cable vision and satellite TV are not
necessary to run a household. They usually are showing the same
movies over and over again anyway. You can go out and rent new and
old movies from your local library for free or you can go to your
local video store and rent only the movies you want to watch. This
is better than paying for movies you don’t want to see or have seen
already.
13. If you have addictions like smoking, drinking, or doing drugs
then kick that habit to the curb. You could give your family a whole
lot more and be around longer for them if you were not spending so
much on trying to kill yourself slowly. Love them enough to love
yourself, quit!
14. Don’t eat out every night of the week. It costs less to cook
meals at home than it does to eat out and you know you are getting
good wholesome food that is prepared safely if you do it yourself.
15. Use florescent light bulbs. They use less power and have to
be replaced less often than regular ones.
16. If you have lamps then use them instead of your regular
lighting. Some ceiling fans have four bulbs and that uses more power
which makes your power bill go up.
17. On days when it is cool outside raise all your windows
instead of running your air conditioner. You can even put a fan in
the window to circulate the air if you want to, this will still use
less power than running that air conditioner.
18. If your children are young, you can save money on your water
bill by giving them all a bath in the same water. Older children
seem to object to this because they feel it is nasty to wash after
each other.
19. You can visit dollar stores and purchase items that you
normally use a whole lot cheaper than other stores.
20. Watching TV together not only promotes family time but also
saves power.
