Changing My Ways

I've just been browsing through old posts on this blog, and found this one: Three New Green Habits. I'm happy to report that I've kept them long term.

1) I'm more consistent with keeping the kitchen lights off both when it's sunny out and there's enough natural light coming in the window, and if I'm going to be away from the room for more than 15 minutes or so.

2) I always unplug phone chargers when not in use now. It's completely automatic to the point where a charger plugged in with no phone attached looks weird to me.

3) I'm almost fanatical now about turning things off when not in use, and the DVD player and VCR are no exception.

So far so good!

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Turn Off The TV

Ahhh... peace and quiet!!! For how long I have no idea - I'm home with a four year old!

He is playing with Play-Doh, and I've turned the TV off while he's doing it. So far he has not noticed, and hopefully will continue to enjoy the Play-Doh.

I've been more and more proactive about turning off the TV unless it's specifically being watched. We no longer have it as background noise, and personally I prefer the quiet...

Windows Windows!!

The first day of autumn is here with a vengeance!!

Ok not quite, but boy is it cooling down. I may have to plug in the electric oil heater in the bedroom to deter Hubby from turning on the furnace ;-)

He's not totally "ungreen" though, in spite of his trigger happy ways with utilities. He's the one who wants to replace our windows. If we did that, then we wouldn't have to turn our furnace on as often, or up as high. I'm just cringing at the cost.

Replace them we will, however; hopefully by Christmas we'll have new, energy efficient, double paned glass throughout the house. Hopefully the savings in our hydro and gas bills will make the new debt more bearable (plus I'll be able to blog about how green we are!!) lol

Ok, Jeanne... get on with it!! You have enough quotes already - just hire someone...