How and where do you save energy in the household?

Hey,

turning off lights where they are not needed makes sense and anyone can do that.
Or just put an Enpal system on the roof. Then you already have one less problem with electricity in life.

How do you save electricity?

Turning off lights where they are not needed makes sense

That probably does make sense, but it always has ;)

Or just put an Enpal system on the roof. Then you have one less problem with electricity in life.

Do you? Why and how? Is the system free by any chance?

How do you handle saving electricity?

There are hardly any ways to save large amounts of electricity. Thanks to LED, lighting hardly consumes much by itself. The fridge can’t only be on when needed either. The waterbed has to be heated constantly. The TV has no off switch, but since it’s new, it only has marginal standby consumption.

By far the biggest electricity consumers are my home office, the heating, and the wallbox. And I can’t save much on any of these (and I don’t want to on the heating either).

How do you handle saving electricity?

Yes... always... for 30 years.

Refrigerator

... you can set it about 2/3 degrees warmer. We did that.

Waterbed

... you can get rid of it. Only heat the amount of water you need warm or hot and not the whole "kettle" by default. Outdoor lights on later and off earlier. Mood lights too. Do not preheat the oven. Take frozen goods out in the morning if they go into the oven in the evening. Think more carefully about cooking whether you really need 3 pans on the stove and the oven for one meal. Unplug battery-powered devices after full charge ...

I have 2 kids and a wife. It is a daily struggle to turn off the lights everywhere.

My wife always says, "we have LED, it doesn't cost anything^^"

Take the frozen food out in the morning if it’s going into the oven in the evening

Hmm. But I just thought about the following:
Frozen food requires less energy if it is filled with mass in which the cold energy is stored.
The frozen mass, lying in the kitchen, withdraws heat energy from the ambient air, which the heating system will then have to supply.
Whether you put the duck in the oven at -8 °C in the evening or at +10 °C core temperature might make a difference of 200 to 500 watt-hours in the end.
This energy difference would, on days when the house is heated, partly be compensated by the building heating system.

In the end, it will save energy because the efficiency of the heating system is better than that of the oven. Solar effects during the day, even in wintertime, also contribute.

I think saving energy has always made sense. But you can also take it too seriously at some point. I mean this generally, not referring to your example. I also take my frozen stuff out of the freezer chest beforehand. :)
I am thinking more about lighting. In some streets here, one sometimes doesn’t see a single light shining from windows late in the evening. The houses simply look abandoned or uninhabited. A "mood light" with 3 watts can be left on all night without any problem. That results in an annual consumption of about 12 kWh. This can be easily compensated by properly adjusted heating systems (thermostats, ventilation, ...), tire pressures in the car, anticipating driving, vacations in local areas, food choices.

What I’m getting at: In the end, you have to weigh whether a certain luxury is worth a certain amount of energy to you. Saving energy for the sake of saving, I consider activism.

… can be thrown out.

So throw out an expensive bed to then buy an unhygienic (from the allergist’s point of view) and unorthopedic (from the back’s point of view) new bed that was produced with a lot of energy? Nope, that makes no sense.