If your utility company is even half as evil as mine, you’re noticing some rate hikes as we run out of winter and in to spring.  With the economy in shambles, you bet your sweet bippy that natural gas and electric companies are going to try to squeeze blood out of the proverbial turnip (read: your wallets).

Well, we did something about it last fall and can report that we’ve seen smaller utility bills and, most importantly, less consumed units over the same period last year.

How, you may ask?  With the Honeywell TH8110U1003 7-day Touchscreen Thermostat.  With 7 days to program around our schedules, we had our HVAC only running when were at home.  (Actually, we had the heat kick on about an hour before we came home so the house would be warm(er) when we finally got home).

The Honeywell 7-day Touchscreen Thermostat is really easy to use, and came highly recommended from friends of ours.  The touchscreen, coupled with an easy menu-driven interface, makes it extremely easy to program.

So not only were we able to save money, we like to think we were also acting green by not running our HVAC all day long.