Compact Fluorescent (CFL) Bulbs use 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer. The U.S. Department of Energy stated that if every American household replaced just one normal bulb with one CFL bulb the energy saved would be enough:
to light more than 3 million homes for a year,
save $600 [...]
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It doesn’t matter how much we bitch and moan about gas prices. They’re not going to come down anytime soon. And with the best will in the world, it is just not possible to drive the car any less - not unless I am willing to trust my kids to the public transport system and [...]
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Okay, in the last installment of our thrilling household budget series, we looked at drawing a baseline under your present financial situation. All we wanted to do was have a starting point - a base to work on.
Now in a similar wide-focus manner lest look at all the items your family spend money on. If [...]
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If I were to ask you how much money you have got coming into the house and how much going out, how accurate do you think you would be with an immediate answer? This is important because if like many people you have no idea how you arrive at the end of the month with [...]
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As the Weatherization Assistance Program has been active for the past 30 years, you could not really call it news. Unless of course, you’ve never heard of it and you are liable to benefit from it.
Over the last 3 decades, the Weatherization Assistance Program run by the U.S. Department of Energy has helped over 5.6 [...]
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If you are interested in saving money and maybe even earning some, I bet you have already been exposed to some very clever sales pitches on the internet. Just typing the typical search phrases into Google and you’ll be spoiled by choice with all the offers to make you a millionaire in 5 minutes.
All utter [...]
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