Use Cash- Take a limited amount of cash to the store rather than your debit card to help curb impulse spending. When the cash is gone, spending is done.
Open The Dishwasher- Turn off the heat dry setting on your dishwasher and open the door slightly at the end of the cycle to let your dishes air dry.
Drink Water-Drink water instead of the soda you normally purchase. (See my post here on Money Saving Mom.)
Time Your Dryer–Most clothes dryers have a cool down setting at the end of each cycle. If you set a separate timer (or your phone alarm) and take the clothes out before the cool down you’ll save electricity and the clothes will be less wrinkled!
Slow Cook Dinner–Cook dinner in the crock pot (Recipes Here) instead of the oven to save electricity and keep your kitchen cooler too.
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I happened upon this post while reading through your archives, and I wanted to caution you and your readers about skipping the cool down on the dryer. If you only have a load or two, it should be fine. But if you are doing several loads, stopping the dryer early and.loading it back up can cause your dryer to over heat. This can be a pain to repair, if it blows the fuse, and be expensive. A better choice might be making sure you aren’t using a longer cycle than you need and letting it finish. The cool down cycle is cheap, anyway, because it is the heating element which costs money and that is not on during the cool down phase. I may have learned this the one the hard way. . .
Thanks Dana. I only do one load a day, so it’s not a problem.
Love these…and so glad you didn’t say wash dishes by hand…that is such a HUGE misconception…it really doesn’t save that much water…unless you have minimal dirty dishes and use a small bucket of wash water instead of running water! 🙂
Plus Sandy, I’m not willing to take the time to do it. 🙂
Just a question on this – does it save any electricity to wash dishes by hand vs dishwasher? I guess that’s the reason we do it.
It definitely saves electricity, but might use more water depending on how you rinse them (running the water vs. dipping them into a sink of water).