My efforts are finally paying off!

[SharonRB]

I got my latest electric bill today and my usage was down 25% from last month and 37% from the same month last year! I think this past month was hotter than the previous month, so this is good news. What probably really helped is that I got a new fridge, washer and dryer about halfway through the billing cycle. That means next month should be even better!

It's about time -- last month, when I thought I had done a lot, my usage was up, which was very disappointing. Now I feel like I'm finally making progress.

[jpak]

1. Huzzah!

:thumbsup:

[skids]

2. It's like losing weight...

...except you get to turn the lost pounds into movie tickets (or whatnot.)

[SharonRB]

3. If only losing weight were so easy!

[NNadir]

4. All new stuff!

That's the way to do it!!!!

[SharonRB]

5. Well, I was planning to get a new fridge -- mine was from the 80s!

Then my dryer died, so I figured I may as well go all the way and get them all at once. Isn't that what credit cards are for? My daughter works for an apartment developer/owner as a leasing manager and gets a discount on Whirlpool, so I saved about $800-900 on the three, so it could have been a lot worse than it was.

[FogerRox]

6. YOur new fridge should be a huge difference over that 80's fridge

How about a CHP furnace ?

[SharonRB]

7. Hey, Roger!

What's a CHP furnace?

Are you coming to the march next month in DC? We're having a meetup the night before.

[FogerRox]

8. They are big in the Japan & the UK. Combines a furnace with electrical generator

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p01s02-usec.html

http://www.climate-energy.com/products.asp

Got a link to the protest site ?

[SharonRB]

9. Here are a couple of links

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5197

http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=S15_homepage

[FogerRox]

10. Hey, thats a good trade, my 2 links for your 2 links, very cool

I'll start making plans.

[SharonRB]

11. Cool!

Hopefully you'll come to the meetup this time. It's at The Hawk & Dove at 7p.m. Friday night. I've got something posted in the DC group.

[humus]

12. solar energy

the sun is a great way to dry clothes and save energy cost especially this time of year
invest in a clothes line and clothes pins

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
-Mahatma Gandhi

[SharonRB]

13. Yeah, I know, but I don't have time to hang clothes out to dry

Plus my husband does our laundry and my daughter does hers, usually at night -- I'd never get either of them to do it.

I remember when I was a kid and my mother used to hang the clothes outside in the summer.

[humus]

14. Solar Power

"The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."
B.Franklin