FANGS FOR CASH-SAVING TIPS

There’s a huge amount of news about Vampire Electrical Devices, you know, the ones we leave on all the time and tend not to cost too much.

As everyone is aware, as the cost-of-living spirals, we’ve got to be saving any which way we can, to get through whatever is actually happening.

This is great news for the family micro-managers; the energy police officer in the household and, finally, those of us who have been trying to get people to ‘only boil the water you need’, ‘take a quick shower not a bath so deep it qualifies as a spa treatment’.

It now means that we don’t look like total tightwads. Instead we are crusaders for saving money and the planet at the same time. It really is Two for One in the world of saving energy.

The only 'fly' so far in the ointment is the complete turning off of the TV and soundbar thing.

It’s easy to flick the switch but the TV is old.

It’s gone beyond being able to run any streaming service like iPlayer.

I have to add different plugin devices to keep it going.

The picture is fine but the software isn’t.

It means that when I turn off this Vampire Device at night, that one action is sucking electrical blood to the tune of about £20 a year.

When I switch it back on, as punishment for stopping it from being a vampire, it takes about 20 minutes to get going and only has about five channels on the programme guide.

The rest is guesswork. It might mean a new TV at this rate which defies the entire purpose of saving money.