Timers make all the difference.
Last year my home used 622 kWh for the June bill.
This year June was down to 392 kWh!
I haven't noticed a thing.
My computers are on timers... The OS shuts them off before the timer does... then I have to use a timer since the bios doesn't have a wake at time feature... But I set them to power on after power failure.
I put a lot of things on timers now. I just wonder if I am actually wasting electricity putting a CFLs and particularly LED lights on a timer, suspect on the lower wattage ones the timer and the light may be about the same. But with lighting I just want it on without thinking about it.
But basically it's a 37% difference in kWh.
I did this after switching to the 3 tier time-of-use plan and last year's bill was $80.69 and this years was $36.20 for a 45% savings.
And no I'm not an environmentalist, I'm just so cheap I squeeze a quarter 'til the eagle screams
House is 7200 cuft (200 M^3) main floor. Full basement, located between Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI USA (42.7` north lat)