[Daox]

Me and the wife moved into our first house one week ago today (Aug 26th). Our first weekend was spent with my in-laws. They came and helped me with the first improvement to the house. The house was built in 1886 and still retained pull chain switches on all the downstairs lights. So, the previous owners simply left the lights on all the time! At least they did put in CFLs. But they had three 13w CFLs and one 4 foot flourescent (~16w from what I've heard) downstairs just lit up 24/7/365. We ended up wiring them all up to a switch at the top of the stairs (father in-law is a master electrician). Rough estimation tells me this will save about 40-50 kw/hrs (~$5) per month. Shouldn't take long at all to pay for itself in materials (which we mostly had laying around already).

I'll get pics of it as soon as I get internet access at home.