Here’s another Low Cost Tip that can help reduce your energy bills.  Use your microwave (or the smallest appliance that will get the job done) when cooking.  
Heating food in the microwave uses only 20 percent of the energy required by a full-sized oven.
Now I know you can’t cook Thanksgiving dinner in the microwave, but [...]

Not too long ago I noticed that some of the food in our refrigerator had started freezing a little.  Nothing too bad, just a little glaze of ice.  It took me a couple of minutes to realize that someone had adjusted the temperature settings in both the freezer and refrigerator to the coldest settings.
I quizzed [...]

 One area many of us miss in our attack on energy usage are the phantom loads created by electrical devices when they are turned off.  It can be an annoyance, however, to unplug everything in our homes.  I’ve attacked this problem by determining which appliances are causing the largest power drains and only elminating the [...]

Many of you have extra freezers or refrigerators in a utility room or the garage.  We used ours to hold bulk purchased food from the warehouse store or food we find on sale at the supermarket.  A great way to save money, right?  Not so fast!  My wife and I had inherited an old chest-type [...]