If your electricity company has a special rate for saving money on your electricity, you should look into it.

In Arizona we have two major electric service providers, Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project.

We have APS and are on the Time Advantage Rate (this plan is no longer available for APS customers [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Over the weekend I did a thorough cleaning on Big A’s room.  Wow, if these bursts of energy remain consistent I’ll be convinced to do the GAPS diet for the rest of my life! After all, it’s just eating good healthy, real, natural, traditional foods. And I’m not even doing organic foods!

Big A’s [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found my Kill-A-Watt buried in my bedroom closet amongst a bunch of other cords in a bag.  Over the past year several times I have longed to test the electricity usage but couldn’t bring myself to buy another one.  Of course since I have it back [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Bummer!  I got a notice by email a couple of days ago that our electricity bill is going up to $296/month. Shoot! It was down to $280/month.  I was a little worried that it was going to go up again, because there has been more than one day in the last month that 80°F [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

If you are visiting from the Money Hacks Carnival – Presidential Edition from January 21, 2009, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you David at Pimp Your Finances for the hard work of hosting this event, and including my post!

Whoot!! The meter was read on December 19th and it took f.o.r.e.v.e.r. for [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I had hoped to figure out this month if using the hot water heater timer was going to make any difference in our electricity bill.

Two things happened so that I won’t know for sure, at least not this month, or the next.

Number 1: Our property is fenced and our meter is inside [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Last week, Mr. A heard a commercial on the radio that electric water heaters can use 1/3 of a home’s total electricity usage. The commercial was for one of those water heaters that provide hot water on demand, and are supposed to cost much less for electricity.

Well… when we first moved here back [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I am so excited to share with my readers that our electricity company sent me an email today notifying me that our monthly payment has been adjusted to $317 per month. We have been paying $334.52 for nearly two years. And, it has been going up steadily every year since we moved here in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

We used slightly more electricity this bill than last year at this time. However, notice that our bill was for 30 days this year, but only 29 last year which actually made our daily average usage less this year than last. Again, I’d rather see it go down a little bit, than up a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

This month’s usage was high, as expected, but still less than last year. I would rather see lower than last year by even a few dollars, than higher as has been the trend for the past six years. As you can see in the graphic, we have consistently used less electricity every month of [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]