I am constantly turning lights off in rooms that nobody is in and nobody is going to be returning to. Kids, grandkids, my wife. Kitchen lights that were on before the sun came up that don't later get turned off (except by me). Bathroom lights that aren't turned off. Pantry light on for who knows how long. When the grandkids are here I feel like I just walk around turning lights off!
When I go to their house, TVs on in rooms nobody is in, lights, all that.
I know there is a cost to burning more electric than necessary, probably not much. I'm not really doing it for the cost - it just seems like the right thing to do, turn stuff off when you aren't using it. Right?
Funny after I posted that, today I was gone all day, the grand kids were here at some point, I get home and the one bathroom light is on...for who knows how long! If I ask my wife she gets mad - that is probably what she says annoys her - me obsessing about lights that shouldn't be on!
My wife gets mad when I leave the room and leave the TV on (like going up to my computer upstairs) - she turns the sound off, but leaves the TV on.
Yes, the lights on thing does bug me too. The cost probably isn't significant unless it might be all day, every day. You can pretty easily figure it. A 100 watt bulb on for ten hours uses 1 kwh (kilowatthour). So depending what your utility provider charges, let's say 15 cents/kwh, that 100 watt bulb on for ten hours is 15 cents. Lower watt bulbs could be on longer to reach the 15 cents. A space heater, depending on the wattage, would use far more juice than any single bulb.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Yes, not so much the cost of the lights being on...but I still source and use made in USA bulbs which are getting harder and harder to find in some instances. So that is part of it. And just the mental concept of a person, "I've gone into this bathroom, or pantry, or whatever and turned the light on to do whatever I am doing - now I am done and I will just leave the light on and leave". Why doesn't that person understand? I joke about putting those motion activated switches in our rooms!
Yeah my teenage daughters are always leaving lights on. I changed all the bulbs to LED so I know they use very little energy but it still bugs me.
I have been reminding g them to turn off when they leave a room so hoping repetion will sink in eventually.
They both have jobs now so thinking of charging them a minimal "rent" so they feel the pain but not sure that will make a difference to them.
I thought something would change like, if they want to have a window open while the furnace is running, when they are in their house they will realize how silly that is. But no it didn't change
Picking up stuff.
To answer the question simply: WOMEN.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
My wife talking to me from a different room, loud enough so that I know she's talking, but not loud enough to hear what she's saying. After years of saying, "What?" I finally just gave up. It turns out that not hearing what she says is not a problem.
My wife talking to me from a different room, loud enough so that I know she's talking, but not loud enough to hear what she's saying. After years of saying, "What?" I finally just gave up. It turns out that not hearing what she says is not a problem.
Yes, this happens to me every day. Except my wife is in the living room or in the kitchen and I'm walking around from room to room carrying something or moving something or doing this or that while she remains stationary and keeps talking. I often hear her say "are you there" - I don't reply!
My mother-in-law on the rare occasions she"s allowed in the house.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
My wife and I did an overnight, come back home, glad to be back, walking around the house ... the master bathroom light was on for a little over 24 hours...she was in there last.
I'm sure there are plenty of things that she would say that annoy her around the house, so there is that. When I tell her about it, she flips it on me, like it's my fault that I'm telling her! The dynamics of marriage.
