Now that you are establishing good habits in the kitchen, the next step to energy conservation and savings is to evaluate the other rooms individually to determine what habits make the most sense in each.

Bathroom Energy Efficiency Tips

Adapting a similar approach to appliances in the bathroom not only makes sense in terms of energy saving, but is a good safety practice. While electronics in the bathroom tend to be used daily, they are not used long, and with the limited amount of space and constant use of water, unplugging them and putting them away has many benefits without being overly time consuming.

Assess Appliances

The remaining rooms are less likely to need such attention since the cords and power strips are probably hidden behind furniture and curtains. Getting to them will be difficult and have little pay off. The majority of appliances around the house do not consume enough energy to make unplugging them or switching off the power strips worth the time. But that doesn’t mean that you should just ignore them. Determine whether they are consuming enough energy to make it worthwhile to shut them down on a regular basis. 

Kill A Watt Helps Estimate an Appliances Energy Consumption

Kill A Watt will help with this. Buy plugging cords into it, the Kill A Watt will estimate how much energy each appliance consumes a day, a week, a month, or even a year. The price of a Kill A Watt ranges from under $20 to roughly $60, depending on how fancy you want to get with the device. The individual unit is perfect for checking all of the appliances in your house, giving you a highly accurate count of how many watts each one consumes. The more costly but time saving Kill A Watt power strip allows you to check out all of the devices currently plugged into a wall, letting you know exactly how much energy each of those cord bunches is consuming a year. In many cases, simply buying a newer power strip will have as much energy savings as regularly turning off an older one.