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How to Lower Your Monthly Tech Bills

by Dan Reilly on August 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM


Monitor Your Electric Use

You know how you have second thoughts about eating fast food when you look at the nutrition facts? Monitoring your energy consumption will have the same effect, only you'll end up cutting watts instead of calories. You can go the cheaper route with a monitor like the $27 Kill A Watt, which measures one appliance at a time. Or pony up $119 for The Energy Detective (above) to measure your entire household's usage at once. The latter company claims that its device will help you save at least 10 to 20 percent off your energy bills.

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