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Save Money With These Tips to Lower Your Utility Bills

From handy smart home devices to the best ways to wash your dishes, we’ve collected a handful of simple tools and tricks you can use to reduce your monthly utility usage. We talk about smart thermostats, light bulbs and energy monitors. We also cover several easy tips that don’t involve buying new devices. We want…

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From handy smart home devices to the best ways to wash your dishes, we’ve collected a handful of simple tools and tricks you can use to reduce your monthly utility usage.

We talk about smart thermostats, light bulbs and energy monitors. We also cover several easy tips that don’t involve buying new devices. We want to make your life easier — you should work smarter, not harder, to get your energy costs down.

0:00 – Intro
1:02 – Thermostats and Lights
4:04 – Wash those Dishes
4:44 – Water Heater Adjustments
5:35 – HVAC Maintainance
6:65 – Off-Peak Rates

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31 Comments

  1. Divyam Maheshwari

    April 4, 2022 at 12:40 pm

    First (literally for the first time I’m first)

  2. Jezza

    April 4, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    Wow, the CNET “Smart House” has some pretty low tech HVAC equipment and water heater installed!

  3. EcoHouseThailand

    April 4, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    I have solar thermal for hot water; Solar and Batteries to power the house and my EV. We don’t have heating in Thailand, but aircon runs from my solar system when it’s needed – the house is super insulated and also designed to cool naturally as far as possible. Rainwater harvesting and solar well pump – result no utility bills.

    • Suryadi

      April 5, 2022 at 12:09 am

      i invest in small mining rig (can be used as personal workstation) and result it pays my utility and internet bills

  4. Riki P.

    April 4, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    Must suck to be a pleb. Only plebs worry about electric bills.

  5. Riki P.

    April 4, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    Peasants

  6. Canadalism

    April 4, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    The more smart item you have or use, the more potential for unauthorized backend access.

  7. Ozk Flx

    April 4, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    Dont use it as much. Turn off your lights. Or live under a bridge. All very affordable

  8. Aragorn7884

    April 4, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    You put 6:65 instead of 6:56 on the time index

    • Lumberjack35

      April 4, 2022 at 2:19 pm

      Nothing slips past you, does it? Modern day Einstein! Brilliant!

      How come you are commenting on YouTube videos and not powering the next rocket launch at NASA? Exactly!

    • Aragorn7884

      April 4, 2022 at 2:56 pm

      @Lumberjack35 My mum said that too!

  9. Mitch

    April 4, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    Electricity saving tip, get rid of all of your devices that unnecessarily waste power

  10. Kastan2

    April 4, 2022 at 2:40 pm

    Great tips. For people that live in $500,000+ homes

  11. porterj

    April 4, 2022 at 2:44 pm

    Take care when reducing hot water temps too much – legionnaires disease is prevented by higher temps

  12. STEVEN MOIRE Y2J

    April 4, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    but you pay the same rates.

  13. ams963

    April 4, 2022 at 3:19 pm

    No leaving the lights, acs, tvs and things like that on when going to another room or outside will save tonne of bill.

  14. Danny Guerra

    April 4, 2022 at 3:28 pm

    I like how they tweaked the Home Depot theme for this video

  15. Tony D

    April 4, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    Best tip to lower cost of living vote red

    • Casey Purser

      April 5, 2022 at 8:27 am

      Lower costs of living but also you get lower wages, lower rates of unionization, and high amounts of government and personal debt.

  16. Housecut

    April 4, 2022 at 5:03 pm

    I keep hearing don’t hand wash your dishes but no one ever seems to address the power usage only the water usage. My dishwasher runs for about an hour. That’s a lot of electricity that I don’t use when I hand wash my dishes in 5 minutes. And I’m single so I don’t generate enough dishes for a dishwasher cycle

    • Bob

      April 4, 2022 at 10:03 pm

      And who is using 20 gallons of water to hand wash their dishes? That figure is really bizarre to me.

    • Casey Purser

      April 5, 2022 at 8:23 am

      The cost difference is very small and newer dishwashers often have sensors to adapt to smaller loads. Environmentally using the dishwasher is significantly better because of how much energy we use to treat tap water.

    • Housecut

      April 5, 2022 at 11:07 am

      @Casey Purser I’m not running and listening to a dishwasher for an hour for one or two damn plates! Just a bunch of control freaks trying to tell everybody what to do.

    • Hector G.

      April 5, 2022 at 2:38 pm

      @Casey Purser First of all, They are exaggerating how much water a person would use for the task (you would have to be overly careless and wasteful to use that much). Second, the energy you are using to run the dishwasher is much worse for the environment than the alternative. If we lived in times where water was more scarce than it is now, then this video would make more sense.

  17. AvatarAang926

    April 4, 2022 at 5:59 pm

    funny guy

  18. David Jamgochian

    April 4, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    Great news

  19. Kizzy SoKizzy

    April 4, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    He said you won’t need water more than 120 degrees. He must not live with, or know about females… and their showers 😂😂😂😂

  20. in Valhalla神様

    April 5, 2022 at 12:36 am

    SNACK!!! This man has got his head in the game

  21. Chancelor

    April 5, 2022 at 2:42 am

    I’m poor my place doesn’t even have a good thermostat

  22. cattigereyes1

    April 5, 2022 at 9:54 am

    Get solar and wind with deep cycle battery backup, and done!

  23. Mark

    April 5, 2022 at 5:01 pm

    Vote Republican to reduce your bills

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