There is $500 to save from five rooms in your home.

Smart energy efficiency will lower your utility bills.  Here are 5 places to start.

·       There is $215 in your living room – Start by replacing 5 bulbs on the most used fixtures.  Compact fluorescent bulbs can reach a savings of $65 each in one year.  Not only do they use less energy, but they have a life span reaching 10 times longer than the incandescent bulbs you are now using.  That means savings for years to come.  Follow that up with a Lennox ComfortSense 7000 thermostat and add another $150 per year to the living rooms savings.  In the summer, for instance, this unit will managing your cooling dollars by lowering the temperature while you are at home and let it alone while you are at work or sleeping.

·       $145 is sitting in the bathroom.  By replacing your shower a 2.5-gallon per minute model and keeping your shower time to 10 minutes you are going to be saving 5 gallons and up to $145 per year.

·       You can gather up another $74 from the laundry room.  Buying cold-water laundry detergent will save $24 - $40 in fuel costs to heat water each year.  $34 is stuck in the lint trap.  Cleaning this trap out each load will help increase the drying efficiency of your dryer.

·       Find $36 in your basement.  Take the temperature down on the hot water heater a little to 120 degrees.  This small adjustment can reach as high as $61 each year in savings.

·       Check the kitchen for another $35.  Just one drip per second from a leaking hot water fixture equals 1,661 gallons of water in just one year.  Fixing these leaks is an easy way to save electricity or natural gas.

This list can go on and on.  Some homes will even be able to save more per room than our estimates.  The point is that every little bit helps.  Starting room by room makes it easier to get hold of things and start heading down that road of energy efficiency.

Source: James & Morris Carey