USA Today has this report: Easy steps can cut winter heating bills.
Yes, there are news and consumer reports on this topic every fall. But here’s a tip involving baby safety equipment that I haven’t seen before, and would be very inexpensive to implement:
Secure outlets. To keep cold air from entering your home via electrical outlets, [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter in the state and national headlines, and today there is a report in The Monroe Evening News: Natural gas bills might be smaller.
A snippet:

Michigan Gas Utilities customers might pay 20 percent less for natural gas this heating season than they did last year due to lower market prices [...]

Local readers in Monroe County, Mich.: be sure to check the pages of The Monroe Evening News to see what the furnace clean and check specials are. Several such ads have been running in the paper in the past few days, and I don’t want to leave anyone out.
Most of those deals expire at the [...]

Detective Bryan Gee talks with resident Kelli Cook about the start of the fire that devastated her home at the River Raisin apartment complex in Monroe, Mich., Wednesday. The fire was most likely started by candles burning in the living room. It destroyed many of Ms. Cook’s belongings, but both she and her 2-year-old son [...]

Energy-saving home improvements can be aggravating for the newly frugal or those new to do-it-yourself projects. Reason: sometimes you end up with the same electric, water or gas bill anyway because the rates went up despite whatever you are doing to keep the usage down.
Unfortunately, those rates are going to go up anyway. Do you [...]

We converted most of our light fixtures to the new CFL light bulbs about a year and a half ago.
The lights that we left on the old-fashioned technology were the applications where the standard CFL bulb just wasn’t going to be the right product: such as ceiling fans, stove fan and bathroom fixtures.
This summer, several [...]

The ACO Hardware ad for July 20-26 for Monroe, Saline, Ypsilanti and several other locations in Michigan (the ad came in my mail today) has this deal on CFL light bulbs:
Out the door price $3.88 for a box of four 60-watt equivalent bulbs. That is after the $5.11 instant savings sponsored by the Michigan Public [...]

This post is for my readers in Michigan:
If money is tight, maybe you don’t need to cut that phone line. Perhaps a discounted service would help you out.
The Michigan Public Service Commission has information on the web about the Michigan Primary Basic Telephone plan. It is pretty reasonable in its usage limits with up to [...]

This is worth an entry by itself: the Meijer ad in today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News (July 19-25 ad) features store brand CFL light bulbs at greatly reduced prices:

Single bulbs: 99 cents each.
Four-pack: $3.96.
Six-pack: $5.94.

There’s been some buzz about energy-efficient promotions in Michigan starting soon, so I expect to be seeing more such [...]

If you are a DTE Energy customer, watch for a campaign that will launch Monday that is intended to help consumers go to more energy-efficient usage patterns.
Charles Slat reports today for The Monroe Evening News that this is part of an effort that various Michigan utilities are involved in.
All of our appliances are 5 years [...]