Over the past year or so, my utility bill for my 3 bedroom townhouse has been through the roof. We all understand the paying the utility bill every month is a necessary pain that has to be done, but it doesn’t have to be so painful. For the past 4 months, my electric bill had an average of $115 a month with 3 people and 3 bedrooms. Split in 3 ways it is not that bad, however $115 a month is still wasted electricity and a hassle to pull out of the checking account.

Besides not showering for 2 days and conserving water and lighting candles instead of the lamps, I decided to buy some of the GE Energy Star saver bulbs and man do they work. I walked around my house and the average wattage of a bulbs was 60 watts. The energy star bulbs are 13 watts, a difference of 47 watts. So if lightbulbs account or 30% of a house’s electric bill, lets reduce that to roughly 5-8% for lighting.

The amazing thing about these bulbs is that our electric bill dropped to $79.00 with every bulb inside the house being the 13 watt energy saving bulbs. They are guarenetted to last for 5 years and are a lot more bright the the 40-60 watts bulbs I had to replace.

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