hey guys it's scholastica here welcome back to my channel in this video i'm going to be showing
you something i just discovered recently and that is how to bring down your electricity bill
to the lowest amount possible so you can save cost so make sure you watch this video to the
end because trust me guys what i'm about to share is something a lot of us are guilty of and if you
are new here i'm scholastica i make videos about nursing in the uk and life in the uk generally
so a lot of you know that i live in northern ireland and one of the reasons why i picked
northern ireland was because it was very affordable and i've been enjoying the low cost
of living for the past three years that i've been staying here until recently i discovered that my
electricity bill was way too much higher than what i've been paying so within the past three years
i went from paying 50 pounds monthly to 50 pounds every two weeks and now i'm paying 50 pounds every
five days which is way too much so guys i decided that this was going to end i was going to call
my energy provider rant complain and then switch to a new provider so i called my energy provider
and then we got talking and what i discovered guys was that brace yourself you know when you
leave your appliances on standby that means that you are actually not making use of them but then
they are not switched off from the socket even though you are not using them they are consuming
electricity yeah now guys think of it like this you've been charging your phone your phone is
hundred percent and then you remove your phone but you leave your charger still plugged in the wall
that charger is actually consuming electricity what you should have done was to switch it
off from the wall completely so it is off let's use the microwave as another scenario
now we know we don't actually microwave food every minute so let's say you are microwaving your food
five minutes three times a day that is just 15 minutes in 24 hours but after microwaving your
food you don't actually turn off the microwave from the wall socket you just remove your food
and then you leave it on standby that microwave is still consuming electricity so guys think of
everything that is consuming electricity in your house your wall sockets your fridge your freezer
your washing machine the tumble dryer your iron okay no nobody actually leaves iron plugged in but
just think of your tv yes your tv that is another thing that is consuming electricity so guys let
me show you what i'm talking about you can see from my meter here the previous day we used about
let's see 8.42 pounds which is almost 10 pounds daily which is why my bill was up to like 50
pounds weekly now today before making the call we were using about 2.33 kilowatts per hour and
with this i didn't even have any major appliances turned on just my phone charger some wall sockets
some lights my fridge freezer and the microwave on standby so we're going to turn off everything that
is not in use now so i'm going to be turning off the wall sockets that are not in use
the tv i'm turning that off because i'm not actually watching it the microwave i'm not
microwaving food right now so it has got to go and some lights i'm still going to leave some
lights that i'm using right now on and then let's see what we've achieved so far
now look at that we've been able to bring it down to 0.19 kilowatts per hour
i can also bring this further down if i want by turning off those other lights that are still
on so all the empty rooms with their lights on i'm turning them off the lights in the passage
i'm turning it off because i don't really need it now even the lights in the living room especially
this chandelier it has five bulbs which are on at the same time and this is draining my electricity
world's greatest dad
now let's see what we have so far with everything turned off
look at that we've been able to bring it down to 0.07 kilowatts so guys this is all you need
so the thing with this kilowatt is the lower your kilowatts the lower your electric bill the higher
your kilowatts the higher your bill so what are the things that are in your house that are
consuming a lot of electricity turn them off if you have electric fan turn it off if you have a
fridge and a freezer turn the freezer off like you don't really need your freezer to be on 24
hours every day if you put it on today turn it off tomorrow or you can turn it off during the day and
put it on at night because come on things will still be frozen you don't need it on every day
unless your father is dangote and you have a lot of money to pay turn off everything you are not
using so from now on what i have learned to do is to turn off everything my microwave i've turned it
off any light that i'm not using is turned off my charger in fact that's the one i'm struggling with
i have to turn off my charger from the wall socket every time i'm done with it and then just anything
that you think that is not draining electricity is actually draining electricity if you want to
bring down your electricity before next month turn off every single thing that is on in your house
that you are not using currently so guys thank you for watching this video to the end let me
know in the comment section below if this is the first time you are hearing about this or you've
always known of it and you are practicing it you are actually practicing it's not by months alone
i want to know about it in the comment section and guys i want to be able to um film a lot of videos
for you guys this year so if you have any video suggestion for me leave it in the comment section
below and i'm going to give you a shout out when i stream the video thank you thank you thank you
so much i'm thinking of doing a giveaway too but i don't even know how to go about it so if you have
any suggestion let me know too thank you so much guys i love love love you guys until next time bye