The effort to save some coins as the kids head back to school and the winter expenses rack up has begun, as many families are working with a lower budget amid inflation.
Many people have been sharing their money-saving hacks online, and now one energy expert has revealed a very unusual way to save money on your household bills.
Emily Seymour, energy editor at the consumer magazine, Which?, shared her top tips to cut down on electricity appliance use, and among them was a recommendation to hoover your fridge.
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Which? has spent the past few months looking into what the government should be doing and what should energy companies be doing.
Emily says while this is important, there are things people can do at home to save money on their bills and said there are "some easy things you can do" to reduce energy consumption in your own home.
Speaking on 5Live, she explained that there are plenty of places to check and potentially change to cut the bills, and said: "The first one for me is using your home appliances more efficiently when you think about all the big electricity drawers in your house, most of those are going to be white goods, your fridge, a freezer, a washer machine – those kinds of things.
“Those are all things that we use a little bit kind of casually you know - washing machines and dishwashers especially.
"You can try and make sure you are using them a little bit less, maybe running them full up to the max rather than sort of as and when you need them."
She also advised people to go around their house and make sure everything is working as efficiently as they can.
Emily then went on to say that by vacuuming your fridge you can cut the energy consumption of your fridge by 25 percent.
She said: "With fridges, one thing I found out from the Which? fridge team, which I found really interesting, is that there are filters on the side of your fridge which are bringing air in and out and helping the refrigeration process.
"If you make sure you vacuum those, clean the dust out you can make them about 25 percent more efficient.
“Fridge freezers use quite a lot of energy, they are on all the time, it is pretty energy intensive to cool things down.”
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