Did you know that your home electronics and non-essential appliances may be costing you money by continuing to pull electricity even when they have been turned off?  As much as 20% of your monthly electric bill could be blamed on your computers, gaming consoles, TV’s, blenders, hair dryers and curling irons when turned off.  You can save money by simply unplugging these non-essential appliances.

Better yet, you can now purchase a “Smart Power Strip” to do the work for you.   According to HowStuffWorks.com, “Smart power strips come with a range of bells and whistles, but they all have two basic components: electrical outlets and circuitry that monitors and controls those outlets.

For example, when a printer plugged into a basic smart strip goes into standby mode, its power consumption drops. The circuitry detects the change and cuts the power to that outlet. The rest of the outlets in use stay on. Many smart power strips also have one or two unmonitored, always-on outlets. These are the ones you’d use to plug in the devices that always need power, like your cordless phone base or alarm system”.

Please visit HowStuffWorks.com for much more information regarding the Smart Power Strips.

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