If you don’t use your computer at night or during the day, shut the little power sucker off. I know it might be an inconvenience to have to wait to turn it back on in the morning or after you wake up in the morning, but you can save yourself some money by putting the little bugger to sleep when you do. With rising energy prices, shutting off all the unnecessary power drains from your house is the easiest way to save money, use less power, and have as little impact on your life as possible.

If shutting it off isn’t something that appeals to you, consider hibernation mode (where your computer can snap awake in a few seconds) or shutting off your monitor (you won’t be looking at it!).

Want to save yourself and the world about four thousand gallons of fresh drinkable water? Go with a low-flow toilet. Conserving water isn’t exactly the sexiest thing on the planet and it won’t save you a ton of cash, but drinkable water is one of our planet’s more precious resources. Installing a low-flow toilet won’t affect your life one bit, but it will affect the lives of your children and your children’s children.

If you don’t want to go through the expense of installing a new toilet or buying a new one, you can always just put a brick in your tank so it holds less water. Be careful when you “install” the brick (or a bag of sand, or whatever you choose), because a busted tank can be very very messy.

At the DMH household, we swapped out all of our regular incandescent light bulbs with the hot new squiggly compact flourescent lightbulbs. Did you know that replacing a 60 watt bulb with a 13 watt bulb can save you around $30 over the lifetime of the bulb? Yep, it clearly pays for itself and you use less electricity to boot. And the bulbs burn cooler and last longer.

That factoid, and many other money hacks, are available at this week’s Carnival of Money Hacks hosted by Moolanomy. Incidentally, that factoid was provided by GE Lighting in their Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (CFL) FAQ.