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Keep your pennies on standby
Chances are, when you are through watching television, playing com- puter games, or watching a movie using your DVD player, you turn these electronics off so that you don’t waste energy. But did you know that you can save even more pennies by unplugging them? Even when they're turned off, the standby electricity these electronics use is almost the same as leaving a light bulb turned on continuously. You can make saving pennies like this easy on yourself by plugging several electronics, say the television, DVD player, and video game, into a single power strip and just switching the power strip off.
Even small gadgets like mobile phones, digital cameras, and handheld vacuums can lead to small savings. Once they're charged, keep them unplugged until they need charging again instead of leaving them on the charger for long periods of time.
Don’t flush money down the drain
More and more we hear that a large amount of the water you use in your home, as much as 40 percent, goes down the toilet. It may not be
One Penny at a Time