{"id":141,"date":"2009-03-05T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-10-01T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:05:00","slug":"saving-green-by-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/saving-green-by-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Green by Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has never been a more proactive time than now to change your habits and “go green.”\u00a0 Recently, the green movement has been sweeping across the nation, and it’s not going to stop any time soon.\u00a0 Fortunately, if you own a home and pay for utility bills, there are a lot of benefits in it for you to “save green while you go green.” Earlier I wrote about a neat trick to get huge savings on your cable or satellite bill<\/a>.\u00a0 Today I will show you a few simple methods to shave several dollars per month<\/strong> from those gas and water bills.<\/p>\n

Analyze Your Utility Usage and Cut Down on the Big Players<\/h3>\n

If you’re like me, every time you open up a gas & electric or water bill– or any bill for that matter– you wonder what the heck you did to make it so expensive.\u00a0 The unfortunate truth is that utility bills are here to stay, and we’re going to have to keep paying them.\u00a0 So let’s take the next best route to happiness: cutting the cost of these bills down as much as possible.<\/p>\n

There are several general residential energy-saving tips that you should implement, and I have included a few links at the end of this post that explain these processes in more detail, but there is one strategy in particular that will help you achieve huge savings per month and give you additional transparency in your utility costs: analyzing your utility’s usage and cutting down on the biggest factors.\u00a0 These can be broken down into two categories:<\/p>\n