Our Favorite Easy Ways to Save on Energy Costs Around the Home

If you notice your gas or electric bill is particularly high during winter, it might be worth it to invest in a space heater, especially if you live in a small space. As the name implies, a space heater will heat a small area of your home versus heating your entire home. Placing a space heater in an area of your home that you frequent the most can save you more money than continuously heating areas of your home that you’re not even using. And they don’t have to be big and bulky. 

There are also plenty of small tabletop space heaters that you can grab for as cheap as $20 that will use far less energy than some of the larger options. Just don’t go too wild with your space heater placement. If you’re going to put a space heater in multiple rooms, then you may as well just run your central heating system to warm up your entire home. 

“We calculated how much you can save on your yearly energy bills using a space heater for 8 hours a day.” If you run it for 8 hours per day, you can expect to pay about $1.60 per day, or $48 per month, on average. 

–David Watsky, senior editor