Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 14, 2021

How wasteful of electricity.

Oy! My dad (circa 1950s) would get the very lowest watt incandescent lights to save money. With LED lights these days it is silly. Turn off the TV and the garage beer refrigerator to save money.

Remember, folks. Saving electricity means saving the planet.

I have become my father.

Another issue …. usually only one family member knows how to put garbage in the garbage can and take it out on garbage day ;-)

Since we’ve converted to LEDs, I don’t worry about energy usage, but I do wish she’d turn off the ones that take a ladder to replace.

I don’t worry about lights using too much power; we have two electric heatpumps, an electric clothes dryer, an electric oven, two refrigerators and two freezers (happens when you get married late in life). Plus, most of the lights are LED.

he must be a Vice President at work do nothing but walk around important

When I built my home 6 years ago the county inspector walked thru and told me that 70% of the lights in the home must be LED’s. I informed him that every light in the house was LED except the 10 lights in the dining room chandelier. He looked at me kind of astounded.

There’s only two of us in our house and I am the one always turning the lights off in empty rooms. Which is strange because when I turn a light on in a dark room where my wife is, she’s always "what’s with the light?’

When each of my sons got their first place of their own (excepting roommates) I’d go there and turn on every light in the house, the open the refrigerator, stand in front of it and say, “There nothing to eat in here.” about three times. Ah, payback.

I would going to say use a motion sensor switch, but one time I was in a public restroom with one of those and was the only one in the restroom. I was in the stall and very soon in the dark.

With all of the other electric stuff in the house, light bulbs are next to nothing. The truth is, the more you turn on/off a bulb, the shorter its life span is.

That’s why we have several occupancy switches, especially the loo

This time of year the house is too dark to turn off all the lights.

Got that right

He.. who pays the bills.. is the only one concerned.

Sometimes it takes having to either pay the electric bill or develop a conscience about conservation, or both, before always turning off the lights kicks in. Once that light bulb goes off in the brain, the lights in the home go off.

That is the problem with retirement plans based on mutual funds and index funds.

When my brother is visiting and I ask him if he owns stock in the electric company, he just replies, “Maybe. Possibly. Who knows?”

Around here husband has most of our lights on timers – which means when are sitting and having late night snack (our breakfast substitute and last meal of the day for us as we wake late and go to bed late – it is 2:25 am right now and will be another couple of hours before we go to bed) we will have to go and turn the lights back on when they shut off.