We have found that heating and cooling our home can be quite expensive. Now that we are in Florida and in a house with an old air conditioning, we've learned the value of opening the windows and turning on the fans. Our energy company allows us to access our account online to see how much per day we spend on electricity. The graph conveniently also displays the temperature outside, so you can see how the temperature affects your electricity bill. We've decided that it's sometimes worth being warm to save the $5 it cost to run our A/C for a day.
If you don't have a smart meter or user-friendly power company, you could do the math yourself on how many kilowatt hours per day you are using. Just figure out which meter is yours and then multiply the daily change by the cost per kilowatt hour.
I realize that it might not be 85 degrees in Virginia right now like it is in Florida, so this may be a tip to tuck away for next year.
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