I take my children swimming once every week and we all wash our hair using the showers at the pools. Very rarely do we have to wash our hair at home and they never make a fuss of it like they do at home either. When I was working (before children) I always made use […]
I’m a single person household. So I found out years ago I could save $20 per month, by only having the hot water cylinder on for 1 hour per day. This is not enough to heat the entire cylinder to the thermostat temperature, but say only half. Of course hot water rises from the bottom […]
Oily Rag has some very good tips on saving hot water costs which inspired me to check my hot water cylinder. I found it to be very well insulated but there’s a one meter long copper pipe coming out of it which is always too hot to touch. The heat loss from this pipe must […]
Hot water accounts for at least a third of your power bill. I bought a shower timer on Trade Me for $18 and have reduced our power bill by $100 a month. We no longer have an excessive $300+ bill per month!
I found that if I turn on my hot water at night when I go to bed, and turn it off in the morning when I get up (about 7am) I saved about $80.00 on my power bill each month!
Instead of wrapping prehistoric electrical cylinders to save some energy, the whole of NZ should be looking at instantaneous gas heaters for hot water. More than 75% of NZ buildings use electricity for hot water, space heating and cooking… which is very inefficient and makes many households vulnerable because energy prices have risen more than […]
I been using my pot belly fire place for cooking and boiling water for my teas & coffees it does well.
Use a push mower instead of a petrol driven mower. They are cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, create no pollution, and will keep you fit.
Don’t waste money on the expensive creams for piles. What is much more effective and a lot faster acting is ice! Yes a couple of ice cubes inserted while sitting on the loo until they melt will give instant relief from burning and itching and shrink the piles at the same time.
Seven of my friends and I have given up smoking by reading this book: Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking. It worked for all of us, cost a lot less than patch’s or lozenges and we have all been free for over a year. Some brought the book ($20 approx online) others borrowed it from […]