I could not believe my ears yesterday when my husband told me that a lamp does not use any more electricity when it is turned on than when it is turned off. He claimed that if the lamp was plugged in then it was using electricity. Can you believe that he thought he could convince me of that? I told him that he was insulting my intelligence, and that I am a lot smarter than I look. Imagine, trying to convince me of that.
It all started when I reminded him to please turn off the lights and television in the living room when he is done for the night and going to bed and is the last person in the room. Does that sound like a reasonable request to you? I swear, sometimes I think that I’m the only one in the house that gives a darn about saving energy and trying to reduce our utility bills. Of course since I’m the one that pays that bill no one else cares at all, and that is obvious by the fact that I am the one that runs around the house turning things off.
One thing I am doing as well is making sure that all of the double glazing windows that we have are locked tight. I’ve noticed in the past when someone opens a window to let in the fresh air, when they close it again that there often is a gap up at the top of the window that no one notices until they go to lock it. It’s lucky that it has been a mild winter so far; the cold draft coming in from the windows would really be costing me a fortune in heating bills!