The other day of my roommate approached me with a new idea for saving some money.
She said she had been thinking for a long time about trying to reduce our energy expenditure every month. Together, we were paying quite a lot of money for our regular utility bills every month. Both of us have been trying to save up for quite some time, but it seems like every month there were a million reasons why we didn’t put any savings in the bank. The energy bill was definitely a major contributor to this ongoing issue. We had talked numerous times about trying to reduce our energy expenditure, but she had decided that the time was now. We were no longer going to use our air conditioning system every single day. She said we would save a ton of money by cutting out our cooling system usage at least 50%. When I asked how we were going to accomplish this, she said we had two options. We could either remember to turn off the air conditioning unit every single time we left the house so that the cooling system wasn’t operating all day long. Or else, our other choice, was to use the cooling system for only half the days of the week. I thought this sounded absolutely terrible, but she was convinced that it was easier to turn off the AC Monday through Wednesday then to remember to power down the air conditioning system at 9 a.m. each day. I don’t know about the longevity of this energy saving scheme, but I can tell you that we remember to turn the air conditioning system back on first thing Thursday morning.