Spending a little more upfront may save you more in the long run

When you buy appliances there are two price tags you have to look at, the purchase price and the operating cost. These are the two things you need to take into consideration when buying new appliances. Appliances account for about 17% of your household's electrical consumption, with refrigerators, clothes washers, and clothes dryers at the top of this list. The chart that is provided with this blog shows the typical appliance use per year. This chart uses kilowatts to measure electricity. For those of you that aren’t sure what a kilowatt is equal to think of it this way. When you cook one pot of rice for 1 hour you use 1000 watt-hours of electricity. One thousand watt-hours is equal to one kilowatt-hour