waterDon’t Flush Your Hard Earned Money Down the Drain – How would you like to reduce your water bill. Do you find that it’s just one more of those bills that adds up and catches you by surprise every month? Once you’ve set up your budget and are looking for more ways to reduce the total in the expense column, you will have to learn how to manage money more efficiently in areas of household utilities. If you haven’t set up a budget yet, I will remind you again to make sure you find a good tool to help you with it online or in our resource link. Here are the three most obvious tips to reduce your water bill.

Reduce Your Toilet’s Water Usage – Your toilet uses approximately 30% of your household water usage. Before the 1950s, toilets used 7 gallons per flush. By 1970, 5.5 gallons per flush, 3.5 gallons in the 80s.Today, a new toilet uses no more than 1.6 gallons of water in the U.S. Let’s assume you flush your toilet 5-10 times a day per person at 1.6 gallons a flush with 4 people in the house. That’s up to 23,360 gallons per year. One simple way to reduce this usage is to fill a pop bottle with water and firmly close the cap. Put it in the toilet’s reserve tank and it will reduce your flow by the volume of the bottle. If you have enough room, you can add more bottles. You can also buy kits in the hardware store. They are basically foam sheets that get affixed to the inside layer of the tank.

A Dripping Faucet is Like Hole in the Pocket – A slow dripping faucet can accumulate over two gallons per hour. This is pretty self-explanatory, but make sure all your faucets are in good repair and closed fully after use. You don’t have to be a genius at how to manage money, but it helps to be handy. If you can’t fix it, save money on the repair by asking a friend who can

Don’t Hang out in the Shower – Did you know that a shower uses approximately 6-10 gallons of water per minute? This is way over the toilet’s usage. It doesn’t take long thinking about how to manage money to figure out that every minute counts. When we were on well water we used to take ‘Army Showers.’ Here’s how it works. Rinse off, stop the water while you lather up, rinse off. This doesn’t sound relaxing, but it could end up saving not only your budget, but the environment too. You can also get low-flow shower head and enjoy a long shower again. Or, try a low-flow head and reduce the time you’re in the shower.

I hope these tips will help you reduce your water usage. It will help your budget, but as a society as a how, I hope this how to manage money tip will also help save the environment. Don’t forget to work on your budget and make it ‘Squeaky Clean.’

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