Partner Post: Save Money On Your Electric Bill With Your Washing Machine

Your washing machine and its co-conspirators, the dryer and the dishwasher, drive up your energy bill with one key thing: heat. All these machines use heat, and they use a lot of it. Understanding why and what it goes to is step one in cutting down energy consumption from these appliances.

A washing machine consumes an astounding amount of energy to heat water to the requested temperature. Even if your washing machine is pulling from your hot water heater, this can cost you quite a bit of coin over the course of the year. So we’d like to introduce to you our groundbreaking new lifehack that eliminates all of the unnecessary energy use that comes with using hot water: don’t use hot water.