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- $215 in the living room: Replace the 5 most frequently used incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs to save $65 a year. Also, installing an Energy Star qualified programmable thermostat can assist homeowners in controlling the temperature when they are away from home and sleeping at night to save as much as $150 a year in energy costs.
- $145 in the bathroom: Replacing the existing shower head with a 2.5 gallon-per-minute (low flow) shower head and keeping showers to 10 minutes in length can save 5 gallons of water during a typical bath and add up to $145 in savings on the electricity it takes to heat the water.
- $74 in the laundry room: To save hot water (which costs $24-$40 to heat each year), wash your clothes in cold water only. Ensure that you use laundry detergent made for cold temperatures. Save another $34 a year by cleaning the lint trap on your dryer before each load goes in, which will allow the dryer to be more efficient.
- $36 in the basement/utility room: Lowering the water heater temperature from 145 degrees to 120 degrees can save the average homeowner between $36-$61 a year and making this temperature change will only be noticeable as far as your utility bill goes…
- $35 in the kitchen: Don’t allow your money to go down the drain; repair leaky kitchen faucets to avoid wasting 1,661 gallons of water per year/$35 in electricity or natural gas.