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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 161434" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>It sounds like you all have great ideas. Some of those things I've been doing for years (I'm just naturally cheap but that's a good thing) but I did hear some new ones here. I did switch out almost all of my lightbulbs for the new flourescent ones. They are more expensive to start with but they last a long time and I really did notice a difference on my electric bill. Also, I bought some cheap timers to turn some of my stuff off and on. It's not as good as having it off altogether (the timer takes some electricity) but it's better than just leaving them on.</p><p>The big problem here is the price of gas. I"ve definitely been making fewer trips but when you live in a rural area, everything is a lot of miles away and there is no public transportation and very little chance of finding somebody to share rides with (not enough people all going the same place. The nearest place to do big shopping is about 75 miles away. We used to go about once a week; now I try to keep it to once a month. And the nearest place any shopping at all (groceries, medications, etc,) is 8 miles. I've been riding my bike every day, trying to work up to the place where I can ride it to town (8 miles there and 8 miles back) but we are approaching summer and I don't know that that is do-able when the temps get up in the high 90s and above. We'll see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 161434, member: 135"] It sounds like you all have great ideas. Some of those things I've been doing for years (I'm just naturally cheap but that's a good thing) but I did hear some new ones here. I did switch out almost all of my lightbulbs for the new flourescent ones. They are more expensive to start with but they last a long time and I really did notice a difference on my electric bill. Also, I bought some cheap timers to turn some of my stuff off and on. It's not as good as having it off altogether (the timer takes some electricity) but it's better than just leaving them on. The big problem here is the price of gas. I"ve definitely been making fewer trips but when you live in a rural area, everything is a lot of miles away and there is no public transportation and very little chance of finding somebody to share rides with (not enough people all going the same place. The nearest place to do big shopping is about 75 miles away. We used to go about once a week; now I try to keep it to once a month. And the nearest place any shopping at all (groceries, medications, etc,) is 8 miles. I've been riding my bike every day, trying to work up to the place where I can ride it to town (8 miles there and 8 miles back) but we are approaching summer and I don't know that that is do-able when the temps get up in the high 90s and above. We'll see. [/QUOTE]
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