Electric Challenge

In May of this year I decided that our family would have and electric challenge. I got out the bill from last year and told the kids that I would give them the $$ amount that we saved for this month. We talked about things that we could all do to save electricity. Nick came up with not using the radio all the time. He has it on in his room when he is watching TV and going to bed and shooting hoops outside...You get the idea. Lexi said that she could watch less TV and turn off lights more and remind the 2 younger boys to do this too. We all started off gung ho but faded a little at the end. We all gathered around when the bills came in anticipation of getting some big bucks. We dropped over a hundred kilowatts of usage. Wow I was impessed. That was about 10 dollars so each of the kids got 5 dollars. They were both happy with that and have been keeping it up ever since. By the way, our usage the challenge month was our all time record for the last 3 1/2 years that we had the electric bills. WOW.
In my continued reading of GREEN Liturature I have found many more ideas. One biggy is the CFL's compact fluorescent lights. I bought an 8 pack at Menards and put all those in downstairs. Lisa says that they are not bright enough. I bought a 4 pack of 100 watts equivelant CFLs and put them in the dark spots. Now they are better.
Another thing was to unplug alot of the electronics which are always drawing electricity even when they are not on. We got a couple power strips that we turn off when they are not in use to eliminate the extra juice that they draw. I also decided that I can walk up the steps for a cold pop so we are getting rid of the basement fridge. I has not actually been that hard to walk up the steps to get a beverage. I also combined to of my aquariums in the other 2 so now I only have 2 going instead of 4. That is 2 filters, 2 pumps and 2 less lights running all day long.
Next I would like to get rid of our old freezer and get and energy star model. This one is as old as the hills and I am sure it sucks a lot of juice. I also would like to get a new clothes washer too. Lisa said that this would be OK with her too. I am always looking for something we can unplug or get rid of now. What is next?????
By the start of August I was waiting for the mail every day to get the electric bill. How many other people do you know that can say that? We destroyed our usage record again. By 119 kilowatts. wow. How low can you go.