Standby Mode Turns Appliances Into Money Suckers
This is a guest article by Willfrid, a fellow financial blogger that likes to find new frugal ideas! Check out his blog Your Finish Rich Plan, a blog that puts the emphasis on the personal in personal finance.
Why do power adapters have to be so bulky? On second thought, maybe I should be grateful that they are. See, I had to move a couple of them around the power strip in my room in order to plug in my laptop when I realized my cell phone charger was much warmer than usual, even though nothing was plugged into it. So I unplugged it, but after a while I found myself googling “hot cell phone charger”. The first result that came up was from TreeHugger: “Unplug Your Cell Phone Charger“. I was floored: only 5% of the power drawn by my cell phone charger is actually used to charge my phone? […]
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