If you are like me, you really love saving money. In fact, you are probably addicted to saving money. Over the years, I have come up with many amazing ways to save money around the house. Here are a few that anyone can implement and save lots of money.

The hot water heater is probably too hot. Change it to 110 to 120 degrees and you will still be fine.

Change all your light bulbs to fluorescent light bulbs. There’s less energy used and they are just as bright. Actually, you can get even brighter lights since they aren’t as hot and you won’t think you are wasting your money.

If you put towels under your doors, it won’t let the heat escape through to the outside. This simple trick saved me so much money in the winter.

Same as laundry, so save a full load before you use the dish washer. Actually, just hand wash everything. It’s much cheaper!

Take advantage of the energy peak hour programs that companies have. Whenever there’s peak power, they will just cut off your air conditioning or heater and they will give you a better rate.

Cut the landline if you don’t need it. Most cell phones are adequate these days and you don’t really need more than one line anyway.

Turn the temperature of the fridge up a little bit. You don’t need to create sub freezing temperatures with everything inside.

If there are rooms that you don’t go to often, seal off the vents to the room so heat and air conditioning isn’t wasted.

Ventilating fans are great in the summer but make sure they are turning the right way so it doesn’t take heat out of the house in the winter.

When it’s day time, open the blinds so heat can warm the room. Most of the time you probably don’t need so much air conditioning anyway.