appliances where unplugging is not practical or advisable. I also left the router and modem plugged in, since those genuinely need to stay on for convenience. I kept everything else as consistent as possible — same heating and cooling habits, same cooking habits, same daily routines — so that any change in the bill would reflect the unplugging experiment rather than any other behavioral shift.
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What Actually Happened to My Electric Bill
After four weeks, my electricity bill arrived and I compared it carefully to the previous three months. The result genuinely surprised me. My bill dropped noticeably — not dramatically, but in a way that was clearly outside normal monthly variation. The reduction fell in line with what energy experts predict: roughly 5 to 10 percent less than my recent average. For my household, that translated to a meaningful real-dollar savings over the
