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With energy costs on the rise, and excess money clearly on the decline…almost everyone I know is looking for a way to save some extra cash.  My never-ending desire to save money is the main reason I’m using a Honeywell Programmable Thermostat. There are lots of great ways to save energy at home and I try to do as many of them as I can.  However, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realize that two of the things that use the most energy in any home come from heating and cooling.  If you don’t believe me, take a look at your monthly bill over the course of a year and watch the spike during the hottest and coldest months of the year.

Common sense dictates that if you can reduce the amount of time that you are running your furnace or central air, you’re likely to save a lot of cash.  Without a programmable thermostat, it’s nearly impossible. I guess, in theory that you can turn your thermostat before you go to bed at night and then turn it back up when you get up, but seriously, who wants to go racing through a cold house every morning to turn up the heat. Even worse, you’ve got to either wait for your house to warm up or you’ve got to take a shower in a cold bathroom.  As green as I try to be, I’d rather leave my heat on all night than to take a shower when my bathroom feels like an icebox.

Leaving the house poses the problem too.  You could turn down the heat in the winter or turn off your air conditioner in the summer before you leave for the day, but you are faced with the same problem as before…you’ve got to come home to a freezing cold or stifling hot home.

Enter the Honeywell Programmable Thermostat. You don’t have to give up comfort to save energy anymore since this bad boy will allow you to set the thermostat any way you want for each day of the week. That means you can program your air conditioner to turn off at 7:30 am as you walk out the door and set it to turn back on at 5:00 pm so your home will be nice and cool when you walk in the door at 5:30 pm. You don’t have to update it on the weekend, because you can program completely different settings for each day of the week.

I typically set my heat to 62 degrees at 10:00 each night, so the heat isn’t constantly running while I sleep and I set it to 70 degrees at 5:00 am. By the time I get up at 5:30 5:40, the house is nice and warm again.

If Honeywell isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other programmable thermostats on the market. I’ve used a few of them, including a Lux and an earlier version of the Honeywell Programmable Thermostat, and this one is by far my favorite – but it all depends on what you are looking for.

I’ve saved literally thousands of dollars on my energy bills since I started using a programmable thermostat and only wonder why I didn’t start using them earlier.

As long as you actually use it, you are guaranteed to see a return of your investment on this purchase. You can check out this Honeywell model by clicking the picture below.

Honeywell Programmable Thermostat

Have you used a programmable thermostat to save on energy costs? How much have you saved? Do you find that it’s easy for you to use? Share your experiences and help other readers to save too!

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