Saving energy and money - what do you do?

You're so right with energy and money conservation these days; as almost all of the people are really tightening up their belts in order to survive. With the sudden and continous increase of price of gasoline in the world market, life has been tough and so much challenging. Even an employed individual earning more than the minimum wage has to exert extra efforts to gain more than how much they are presently earning. Personally, I'm a married woman with one daughter. I'm the only one working for the family and my husband takes care of her. I've got to admit that we really don't have any savings at the moment so we are trying very hard to save on a lot of things. We used to utilize the washing machine for our laundry, but now whenever possible, we wash our clothes by hand. Before leaving the house, I turn the refrigerator down to a level lower than warm. After all, not much is stored in it for now. I turn it higher in the nighttime before going to sleep as no one is going to open it several times unlike during the day. This way, it gets colder and I could turn it off for a day or two if the ice has already accumulated and still keep the coolness in it. We try to keep the lights switched off when we've finished eating dinner while watching tv. Also, we don't switch the lights on until it isn't six in the evening or even later.