It is always bittersweet to think that we are leaving the relaxed days of summer and rolling into the brisk days of fall. When I get to looking back I can’t help but reflect on my summer. Every summer I always feel such anxiety when I bake or cook in my oven. You see, I was raised NEVER to turn on the oven in the summer. Well, for a baker like me that is like a death sentence. So, now that I am the boss of own house I bake. But I do it being mindful of OG&E’s SmartHours.
At the beginning of the summer I found myself following some of what those commercials were saying about “running the household appliances.” According to the OG&E SmartHours, it is really simple to save money on the electric bill. Between 2 and 7pm DO NOT USE the big household appliances. That means: the washer, dryer, dishwasher, oven, microwave, etc! Save that for early in the am or in the evening. Believe it or not….it works. So instead of 3 o’clock chocolate chip cookies. Now I just bake them in the morning!
I have not signed up for the full program yet. But I am interested! Please let me know what you think about the SmartHours program? Have you seen big savings? How did you do it?
**Compensation for this post was provided by OG&E. Opinions expressed here are my own good, bad or ugly.
Malinda Outland says
It’s hard to measure in actual usage as this summer was so much milder than last summer, but we saw a significant decrease. And since I still work primarily at my home office, I was very pleased!