Turn the television on but not watching

I do turn on the TV sometimes and not even bother to watch it. I do this when I am alone to keep me company. However, I do not get why your sister-in -law has to turn on both the TV and the radio. If she wants a background noise to keep her company, she could just turn on the radio. I also don't get why she has to turn on the fan if she would be in the bathroom. Basically she is just wasting the electricity.

My aunt and uncle do the same thing and I hope one day that they will realize that they will be able to save a ton of money if they are just a little bit more energy conservative. They will turn on all of the lights and the TV in one room, and then go to the living room leaving everything running in the other room. It really annoys me, even though I am not paying the bills so I will just have to let it happen until they notice that they are wasting their own money. Its whatever! I will be smart when I own a home!

My adult kids will go through the house and turn on every light, but never turn them off. They just go right out the door and leave or up to their room. I have started telling them that if they don't turn them off, they are going to start paying the electric bill.

it is such a wadte... What your sis in law does. I have never known someone who is like that. I often would come home without anythong on and if i eed not watch the tv i would not even turn i on. I just do my business... Laptop and stuffs and not wadte on opening the radio when i could play it on my laptop. I hatr wastages and we are always ike that here at home. I admit to someties having a music while i take a bath and i bring my phone wth me haha but not the radio because i know i wont be able to hear about it from the insife of the bathroom. my older brother though was sometimes always forgetting to turn off the electric fan when he uses it and then would leave. Good thing my mom always checks after him. Haha but my mom makes sure he remembersthis incident by talkingabout it over and over... But my broter always forgets anyway... So id say it is reall a bad habit.

Hi Peper_Doll, it's nice to have someone telling her to understand her inconsiderate habit. may be she doesn't know it's a waste of electricity to get all those appliances switched on for an hour earlier, if she really wants to watch tv under the fan. I just couldn't understand the real reason she does the same thing before going to sleep after her night shift in the morning. Might be doing so she then can set her heart at rest so that she can bathe and sleep with relaxed. With all the light on and noise made seem like she is not alone I suppose. My husband's elder sister having the similar bad habit too. Hers is not as serious as your in law's. She switches on both the radio and tv at the same time. I don't believe one can listen to two two different broadcasting stations at the same time. Worse still she tends to turn the volume high. It's really a serious disturbance if we are in the sitting room Fortunate that the two appliances are placed in her bedroom. My husband will get her door shut most of the time Happy posting.

What participation do they have in paying the electric bill. Maybe they don't even give a share. But you know what they are not alone. I've seen lots of people who do the same and I've almost grown tired of reminding those people around me who do the same. How could they waste electricity that way? How could they not understand that energy is not to be wasted. Don't they know how hard it is to earn money nowadays?

I have the habit of falling asleep with the TV on. I can't sleep if the room is totally quiet. My hubby works late so usually when he gets home and is ready to fall asleep he turns it off