{"id":429,"date":"2024-01-15T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-years-resolution-3-shrink-your-bills\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:06:09","slug":"new-years-resolution-3-shrink-your-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-years-resolution-3-shrink-your-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolution #3 &#8211; Shrink Your Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"735\" data-original-width=\"829\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: large\"><b>3: Shrink your bills<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">By shrinking your bills, you can shrink your carbon footprint in the process. When people think of going green, they often think it takes solar panels or a hybrid car to make a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">The best place to start is by cutting your energy usage in your home:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Remember your mom&#8217;s advice and switch off the lights when you leave a room.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Turn off your air conditioner when you leave the house and dial your heater down to 55 degrees at night.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Install LED bulbs and low-flow showerheads.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Try drying some of your clothes on the line and wait for the dishwasher or washing machine to be full before you run them.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Turn off your power strips and\/or set your home computer to revert to sleep mode when not in use.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Water your yard less. Put in drought-tolerant landscaping if necessary.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Give composting a try. Your garden will thank you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3: Shrink your bills By shrinking your bills, you can shrink your carbon footprint in the process. When people think of going green, they often think it takes solar panels or a hybrid car to make a difference. The best place to start is by cutting your energy usage in your home: Remember your mom&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}