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I cut my energy bill in half since I bought my house 10 years ago. The first year I lived there my energy bill was over $1400 per year for my all electric house. I got it down to about $700 two years ago before the price of electricity jumped 20% in January of 2007.

I am constantly looking for new ideas to cut energy costs. Here is a list of the methods I have used to achieve this. Everything I have done so far has been simple and low cost solutions that I could do myself.

Clean running water, an absolute necessity to our very survival, is also incredibly handy around the house. So handy, in fact, that most of us use it wastefully at least part of the time. As our growing population strains our water resources and infrastructure to the limits, costs for providing water will escalate. We can minimize those costs by employing a few simple water conservation methods in our homes.