Blue Line Innovations Power Cost Monitor $109.99
Power Cost Monitor from Smart Home USA $108.99
Black & Decker Power Monitor – $92.00. The Black & Decker Power Cost Monitor has 43 reviews on Amazon.com and has a 4 star rating. The two other other models don’t have much customer feedback.
The Today Show ran a segment on saving [...]
Home Depot will take your old Christmas light, working or non-working and will give you a $3 off coupon toward new energy-efficient LED string lights. The Home Depot Christmas Light Trade-In offer is good until November15th and customers are limited to five trade-ins.
The price that I saw for a 50- light strand was $5.97 for 50 lights, so [...]
Gazelle is a website where you can recycle your computers and old electronics for cash. Gazelle has been featured in the Wall St. Journal and the New York Times. I first heard of the site from Real Simple Magazine. Gazelle makes it easy to ship your items by providing you with the box and a pre-paid [...]
Best Buy has a two-tiered trade in program for your old electronics. With either program you can get a Best Buy gift card for your trade in. The first and most lucrative offer is for Apple iPods, Apple Laptops, Mobile Phones and PC Laptops, purchased at Best Buy. You can use the online estimator to [...]
A company called Alternative Community Training, Inc. (ACT) is a nationally accredited, not-for-profit agency that provides support and assistance to adults with disabilities.
You can recycle and donate your old pile of VHS tapes to ACT as well as your old floppy disks. Workers erase and recycle the old tapes and disks or clean and package them [...]
Here is a money-saving tip, an easy way to earn some extra money or donate to a worthy cause.
Readers sent me for some updates to a popular post I wrote about called Sell Your Old Cellphones . In that article, I mentioned FlipSwap and CellforCash . Here are 3 additional sites to contact about purchasing that old phone or electronic gadget that is in [...]
Last week, I joined the Freecycle Network (TM) in my community. I have some left-over material from a remodeling project that I have wanted to find a home for.
In order to join Freecycle, you need a Yahoo ID which is easy at yahoo.com and it is free. You can use another email address for your [...]
Find Farmer’s Markets locally and all across the country at Localharvest.org and this site run by the Department of Agriculture. The food tastes fresher and is more nutritious. You can save money by buying the produce that is in season. Local Harvest has some educational farmer blogs and a gift shop. Support your local farmers and your local [...]
Wrap-N-Mat is a money- saving ,washable food wrapper that keeps food fresh and reduces our trash. They are available in a variety of solid colors and prints and come in two sizes. The prices are $6.50 or $7.25 for a hoagie- size wrap.
Wrap-N-Mats provide a clean eating surface anywhere. They close with a hook and [...]
Save money by switching to energy efficient light bulbs. Thirty five dollars per bulb is the amount that GE estimates we can save by switching our incadescent light bulbs to energy efficient light bulbs over the lifespan of the bulbs after factoring in the replacement cost. Let’s multiply that by the number of light bulbs in [...]
Visit BestBuy.com/Recycling to learn about recycling most electronics products at their stores (up to two items per day per household). There is no charge for most products. There is a $10 fee per unit charged for laptops, TV’s or monitors under 32 inches and Best Buy will give you a $10 Gift Card to offset the fee. [...]
Our electric bill has dropped since I began washing and drying clothes in the off-peak hours. Here are a few more tips from Consumer Reports, Shopsmart Winter 2007.
About 90% of the energy used toward washing a load of clothes goes toward heating the water. Cut your heating costs by using your washer’s cold water setting [...]
Square foot gardening was the answer for me. I don’t have a lot of time to spend on maintenance, I don’t want to waste water and I want to have something to eat or cook with all year.
I’m an amateur gardener. I need it to be easy. I love to grow vegetables with my kids but their [...]
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