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your BEST SHOT


Share your photos with Inside Your Co-op, and we’ll send you a copy of CEC’s Holiday Collections cookbook, or a copy of CEC’s 70th Anniversary publication, Turning On the Lights in Southeast Oklahoma. Email photos to Jennifer Boling, jboling@choctawelectric.coop. The deadline for the June issue is May12, 2012. The theme is “RODEO.” Please include photographer’s name, hometown, mailing address and


phone number. Details such as where the photo was taken and names of those pictured are appreciated. Please make a copy of your entry before submitting it—photos will not be returned.


BY TERRY MATLOCK Chief Executive Officer


All that stuff. Hanging on to old appliances is an expensive habit


don’t “replace” things.—I add to that which I already have. Just look in your closet and see how many articles of clothing you have that you never wear.


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We find that to be true of appliances as well. In 2010 and 2011 a lot of rebates were given to people to replace their old refrigerators, water heaters and other household appliances. About 1.7 million rebates were redeemed nationally.


The estimate is that these new efficient appliances will save about $65 million nationwide. About $48 million will be saved mainly by consumers who replace old and inefficient refrigerators, clothes washers and dishwashers. Out with the old, in with the new!


Well, that’s not really the way it works. About one in five households may buy new appliances, but they never get rid of the old. That’s 20 percent of homeowners who simply add to the “stuff” they already have!


Let me tell you, that is not going to save you any money. Keeping that old energy hog and running it in your garage or out in the barn only jacks up the electric bill even more.


Did you know that it is estimated that appliances make up 13 percent of your


ave you noticed how easy it is to accumulate “stuff”? I thought about this recently when I realized that I usually


homes energy use? With older appliances that percentage only goes up. A refrigerator from the 1970s is estimated to cost $200 more per year to operate than a current model; a 1980s model, about $100 more than a current model.


If it’s time for a new appliance, take a look at the options and decide if replacing some of that old stuff might be worth it. And I guess I can part with that old sweater too.


CEC CEC


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