Hump Day Poll: Energy Savings

I am looking for all of the ways to save money lately and that included doing a bit of an energy audit in early February.  I never paid attention to what I used when.  If the dishwasher needed run, we ran it.  I was in a room, lights on, etc.

Now that we need to be cognizant of what money is going where I started not turning the light on in the living room during the day.  I set up for the day near the slider so I've been opening the blind all the way and it's been giving me enough light.  Unfortunately, our house faces south meaning the sun casts a huge shadow on the back of the house so we can't really harness the light well.  I checked the non peak hours listing for our electric company and it's 8pm to 6am.  So if the dishwasher needs run now, it gets put on the delay cycle until 8pm.  Washer needs run?  Set to 8pm to be switched an hour later or run at 5am with an email reminding us to switch it when we get up.  (Obviously, the night one saving more money.)  Hot water was my default setting on the kitchen sink, now I try to use that setting as little as possible and stick to nothing hotter than warm.  I try to unplug all phantom appliances like kettles, coffee pots, etc.  We've got our heat and cooling on a programmable thermostat.  (76 in day and 70 at night during the summer.)

I'm sure I can do more though.  

What money/energy saving practices do you do?

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