Utilities

Heating your home can be a financial strain. In fact, HelpAdvisor says 26% of Americans skipped or cut back on basics like food and medicine to pay an energy bill in the past year. And that’s before the steep price increases expected this winter. “No matter how you heat your home,” CNN says, “the cost […]

In my household growing up, my mom reminded us about saving water quite often. I wasn’t always as good at listening as I should have been. Then I saw a monthly water bill for myself. What a eye opener! It’s easy to think of water as either plentiful or a necessity. In reality, it’s just […]

The 65-and-up crowd has lived through the most incredible media revolution in history. They’ve seen television go from a handful of major networks to a sprawling array of hundreds of specialty channels. That’s not even mentioning the digital upheaval created by the internet, with YouTube and Netflix fighting for viewers too. Navigating today’s complicated cable […]

For homeowners and renters who pay their own utility bills, electricity represents a significant and often unpredictable monthly expense. In the United States, people spend an average of about 2% to 3% of their annual earnings on electricity. That’s a decent chunk of change, and it’s little wonder that people are always looking for ways […]

A growing number of telecommunications providers are offering cable and internet bundles, which provide both services for a fixed monthly price. Yet, despite the convenience and savings these plans claim to offer, a lot of people are unhappy with their service—and they’re even less happy about the price they pay for it. If you’re in […]