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Lower Your Utility Bill
How to lower gas and electric bills without touching your thermostat! You may qualify for special programs that help cut costs.
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Reducing Your Utility Bills, Not Your Bank Account
Once again it is the dark and chilly time of year – the time when we gag, gasp and pass out when confronted with utility bills. When it comes to energy consumption, we pay in every way possible. So conserving energy will not only help the environment but save our bank accounts from extinction as well. But many tips folks give you for conserving energy aren’t all that cost effective or realistic in the short term. Sure, we’d love to reinsulated our homes, buy new water heaters, replace all our major appliances with newer, more efficient models and protect the environment, saving money in our later years. It would be grand to build or rebuild in a super-energy efficient eco-friendly way or even go off-grid. Maybe one day I’ll be able to do that. But my problem is a bit more urgent. After all, if I had the money to reinsulate, remodel or rebuild my home and replace all my appliances, I wouldn’t be worried about what the utility bill is costing me. So how can a cash-strapped non-construction worker reduce those energy costs? Read on to find out.
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Reducing Your Utility Bills, Not Your Bank Account II
This is the second installment of the article about saving on utility bills. We move to the biggest consumer of energy - heating and cooling the home. Here are a few tips to keep you frugally cozy this winter.
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Reducing Your Utility Bills, Not Your Bank Account III
The final installment of the energy and money saving article series. This article talks about the seond biggest and the trickiest of all the energy users - household appliances. You'll be surprised where you can save.
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Attic Ventilation: Venting Hot Air
Attic Ventilation is essential for exhausting hot air, to ease the load on the air conditioner, and to lower utility bills. This can be done with roof vents and fans.
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Reduce Energy Bills For Gas and Electricity
Energy bills have increased by about 40% so saving money on gas and electricity bills is important. Reduce fuel poverty through utility comparison and cost cutting.
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Residential Wind Turbines FAQ
Residential wind turbines represent a green and renewable energy technology and a way for the homeowner to lessen dependence on the electrical power grid.
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Swimming Pool Heater Basics
When the weather gets cold, installing an in-ground or above ground swimming pool heater allows continued recreational and lap swimming. Choose solar, gas, or heat pump.
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The Energy It Takes to Do Laundry
What to do when your washer - full of a load of cloth diapers - finally craps out. Necessity is a mother.
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Cost-Cutting Tips at Home
Looking for ways to better afford your stay-at-home lifestyle? You can make barely noticeable cutbacks in your household expenses to save money.
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Green Home Building Takes Off
The green building movement is gathering momentum and both general contractors and remodeling contractors are educating themselves on materials and ENERGY STAR appliances
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Home Remodeling Success Tips
Successful home remodeling contractors make money because they pay attention to a set of details; whether a bath remodel, a kitchen makeover, or updating the entire home.
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How to Install a Power Attic Vent
Power attic vents are active; turbine (whirlybird) and ridge vents, passive. Temperature triggers power vent operation; air flow/negative pressure operate passive vents.
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Off Campus Student Housing
Leaving the dorms for an apartment can be liberating, but also quite a bit of responsibility. Here are some questions to ask yourself before you make the move.
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Recession Proof Small Businesses
Tips for keeping a small business afloat during poor economic conditions
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Save Money on Energy Bills
Heating and Electricity prices are going up and household budgets are tight. These money saving tips will help reduce utility bills.
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Save Money on Home Expenses
Be more resourceful with these money-saving tips, and learn how to save money on food, save money on the car, and save money on utility bills.
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Solar Window Film to Save Energy
Solar window film is a great alternative to double glazed argon filled windows. It keeps the summer heat and UV rays out. Darker tints provide privacy.
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Taxes and Claiming Expenses
Doing taxes as a self employed professional is already a real pain. Gathering 1099s, looking over records, worrying. Is claiming expenses worth the time and trouble?
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Tenant Leases
You've been a good tenant and your lease is up for renewal and you would like to negotiate a lower rent. It's not out of the question if you know how to go about it.
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Use SIPs for an Energy Star Home
Structural Insulated Panel (SIPs) construction is the foundation of an Energy Star rating. Green building has many advantages: tax credits and 50%-off utility bills.
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Green Banking
More and more business practices are incorporating the go green initiative - including banking.
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Residential Solar Panels
With energy bills increasing, many homeowners are installing residential solar panels. This is a green, renewable energy source and each solar array produces 10 Watts.
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Rates--Part 2
The second article in a series on building a rate that's right for you.
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Credit Card Guide
While credit cards are a necessity these days, families should nevertheless do their best to keep the use of credit cards under control.
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SAVES HOMELESS FAMILY
A woman and her family live in substandard housing that poses a threat to their well being. Through Habitat for Humanity they move into a real home a few days before their mobile home burned to the ground.
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Household Utility Budgeting
Utility wise is penny smart! Make a few changes in your lifestyle and see immediate savings on your bills!
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S.O.S -- Save Our Shell
The S.O.S project to save our Shell is now underway. You can help.
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Christmas In June
Christmas in June is for all those that want to have all of their shopping done early so that they can avoid the mad Christmas rush and going out in the winter weather.
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Convenient in ways you never dreamed...
You can do just about anything, at a Japanese convenience store!
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Dreaming of being a stay at home mom?
If you have ever dreamed about being a stay at home, this is a must see for you!
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FIA Increases Cost Of SuperLicense
Lewis Hamilton faces an increase of €226'310 for his Superlicense this year.
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First Time Home Buyers
Being methodical, decisive and thorough will help you make your way through the purchase of your first home.
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One Room Living: The Studio Apartment
What is so good about living in a studio apartment? Plenty! Read on...
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TALES...LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP
Update on the current goings-on in the 77th Texas Legislature.
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Teach Kids to Save, Invest and Manage Money
Training children and teens to be wise in spending decisions and saving for the future will pay off when they become responsible consumers as adults.
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And While We're Talking About Gifts...
What to give that older person in your life? Here's some practical suggestions that say you really care.
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Arbor Day - 2007
Arbor Day, observed in most of the U.S. A. on the last Friday of April, is the classic time to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. These articles offer celebratory ideas.
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Autumn Colors
... autumn is upon us. That intimates something more profoundly colorful for some places, something more comfortable in others. In any case, it sweeps us up in a flashflood of autumn colors.
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Building Credit History Myth
If you think the only way to get credit is to use credit, change your thinking fast. Find out the best things you can do now to ensure you qualify for a mortgage loan.
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Central Air Conditioning Units
Air conditioner units cool the home and set the humidity level. Conventional systems remove humidity, swamp coolers add it. SEER ratings equal energy efficiency.
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Cold Yet?
Some fresh suggestions for bringing down your utility bills.
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Election Day !
Election Day
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Electronic Ballots and Voting: What's New?
Arizona's Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, announced a new innovation in voting for the 2008 ballot. A select group of voters will be casting ballots differently.
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Energy Efficient Schools
Schools are being built energy-efficient. There are 770 such buildings across the nation. What makes a building energy-efficient?
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Financial Aid for Cancer Patients
Cancer places a tremendous financial burden on patients, even when health insurance is in place. Many organizations can help.
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Frugal Living: Downsize Your Living Expenses
Tips on how to save money on basis household expenses and tasks, such as washing dishes, buying groceries, etc.
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Goldenrod as a Metaphor
Goldenrod. If any wildflower is an explosion of color, its goldenrod. Summer wanes, the sun drifts southward, evening falls earlier and the nights last longer, all reasons to roll over and suck my thumb. But then there’s that damn goldenrod; bursts of sunshine in a flower, parting clouds and reeking of glee.
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Holiday Gift Suggestions
Holiday gift suggestions for seniors.
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Home Energy Audit
Energy costs are on the rise and homeowners are turning to online software and professionals to save money.
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