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I trusted a 15 second TikTok about my electric bill and it cost me $340
I kept seeing this clip where a guy says you can cut your power bill by unplugging everything at night, so I tried it for two months and my bill actually went up $340 compared to the same stretch in 2023. Turns out my place in Columbus has a heat pump that loses efficiency when it has to catch up every morning, and the clip never mentions that part. What got me was the comments, thousands of people saying it worked, but nobody posted an actual bill side by side. I finally pulled my own usage data from the utility portal and the night hours barely moved, it was all in the morning spike. The guy in the video also has solar panels, which he says in a pinned comment buried under 40,000 likes. So the tip was real for him and useless for anyone renting or without panels. If a claim comes with a big number, where do you go first to check if it holds up?
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corah758d ago
My dad did the same thing with a space heater tip in 2019.
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