This guide is to share some ideas, concepts, and creativity toward lowering your utility costs at home.

Some things to help you save on your water bill: Take one of your kitchen sink drain pipes loose if you have a double sink. Make it the one you use to rinse your dishes. Re-install a straight pipe that will go straight into a five gallon bucket. This rinse water can be used to water your roses, and debug them as well, since they hate kitchen dish soap. use it to flush your commode instead of running that water bill up some more with that regular 2-5 gallon flush.

Take a Out door plastic garbage bin and take a drill and put tiny wholes all around the outside,and a few on the bottom for drainage. Then put this bin up on the top of cinder blocks laid flat. Do not put any wholes in the lid. Use this as a mulch bin to put your food scraps in, some small amounts of yard debree, and etc. However No grease, and or meats to be put into bin for this will create grave oder, and bug problems. Just vegtable waist, and things like that. Every month go out and turn the rubbage in this barrel. The same time you started this bin the following year empty it out into your garden or flower bed for fresh top soil. It really works. Of course remember the more hard debris like stick you put in the longer it takes to break down. You will have some creatures in your mulch during the summer, but they are just working it for you. They will die off in the winter, and you by early spring will have a great batch of good stuff to feed your plants or yard.

Use paper out of your shredder to put around you nice new flowers or garden plants before you put that final layer of dirt over them. This paper helps feed them, keep moisture next to them, and stop weeds. When you plant some types of shrubs they like oatmeal, and Coca-Cola mixed in there planting area. Look these ideas up on the net. They really help cut cost.

If you farm cattle, and got a pond down the hill from you. I would suggest running your gutterns of your house into a bin set up just like the way ground water is cleaned as it goes into the earth. Look this up for ideas on how to plan this process. eventually after the gutter water has run through this set up as it flows naturally down hill it will spill into you pond for the cattle safe, clean and ready to be drunk by them. It really is a great idea when those summer droughts bring brief, and few down pours. That is alot of water to fill a pond. I can tell you that a small 3ft out, by 5 foot long overhand of mine has a drip point on the front of it, and of course much water falls elsewhere, but at this point I collect 15 gallons of water in a brief down fall of rain. Imagine your whole roof running in a gutter, and eventually into a cleaning system as it goes down the hill into your pond. I am talking about a large rock area for water to go through, small rock pit, sand, and etc. by the time it gets to the pond you just helped your cows, and saved you alot of money and well water.

Take a solar charged light purchased from a store. Charge it in the sun then at night take it in the house, and let it brighten any area for you. Night light type ways, or mabye a light to sew by. Why use that high priced electric when you can charge your light in the sun everyday, and use it at night without any worry of electricity cost. Use a bunch of lights. They Cost around fifteen dollars and up. Wow light your whole room for no cost what so ever at night. 

I could give more ideas but it would take a book, I hope you can benefit from some of these. I will add more later on, and keep giving out ways to save.