Saying yes...

I'll be insane, but by God, our electricity bill will be lower!!!

We recently signed up for "real time electricity". Instead of paying a flat rate all the time, you are actually charged for the amount of electricity you use and at what time you use it. It pays to do your laundry or run a load of dishes during off hours if you can plan accordingly. Since I'm the one who is around more often than not, this is going to fall to me to chart and plan.

I can tell already, I'll be insane soon.

I do not suggest it for anyone who likes to gamble or who might be slightly obsessive-compulsive. You have to look at a graph and see if you can schedule your peak appliance usage for the lowest predicted price per day. Our average price per kilowatt hour was 7.5 cents before switching so I’m supposed to be watching this graph and doing laundry, etc, at a time that is ideally below 7.5. They give predicted hourly rates, but today the low rates were off by 4 cents! Yes, I’m going to be insane before this is all over. Our bill will be lower, but I’ll be like the rat in the Skinner Box pushing the lever for one more inexpensive pellet only to get zapped again and again!!!! AHHHHHH!

I have a feeling the reason you save money is because you never run anything because you're too busy hanging out at the WattSpot waiting for that ideal price. We're currently at 8.1 so I guess the laundry can wait for another hour...

FYI

I am purchasing rights to Brando. Yep, to heck with IRA's and 401K's. I am going to purchase rights to Brando and will own whatever comes out of his mouth. I'm not a money-grubbing fool, but I'm also not stupid. Investing in Brando is the wave of the future. Of course, I'll own him, so those who want to invest will have to speak to me. :)

Update: TLB, Inc. apparently already owns rights to Brando. I'm thinking though that she has bigger worries than me... It seems Disney may have purchased rights to Brando at some point in his youth. Little did he know that when he first saw Tron, he was signing away rights to any future thoughts, words or deeds. It's also clear that Disney holds the rights to the contents of our dreams.