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Last Friday, a gadget entered our house, promising to change our lives forever and reduce our electricity bills by 20%. The Electrisave. Does exactly what it says on the box. It can save you electricity by showing you exactly how much you are spending on electricity at any given moment. You attach a box to your meter which transmits wirelessly to the display monitor that, if you are anything like my husband, you attach to your person at all times. That shocking realisation then forces you to turn something off and thereby reduce your spending instantaneously. Fantastic.

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I’m slightly nervous and definitely unsure about what is being asked of me here, but my inbuilt sense of order made it imperative to start this log on the first of the month and to wait until the first of April seemed a little foolish.

So be patient with me. See it as an adventure, a path of discovery …..or another of those phrases we feed to our kids when things are definitely NOT going according to plan!

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