Three weeks in a row, the electric bills were 20% higher than several weeks ago. My husbandy and I were starting to wonder if it was time to update our Heating and Air Conditioning unit. We called a local supplier that handles repairs and installations and both of us tied up a service appointment. We felt they could evaluate the system and tell us why the electric bills were 20% higher. They promised to supply us answers. The service worker surveyed our device and checked the mechanical and electrical components! He performed a full service tune up on the inside and outside of the Heating and Air Conditioning machine. When the service worker was finished with the evaluation, he told us that the device seemed to be toiling just fine. He wondered if both of us were running the Heating and Air Conditioning device more frequently than necessary. That’s when my husbandy and I thought about our children. They come home from school every afternoon by themselves for several hours. The lake house consistently feels colder when both of us get home from work, even though the control device temperature has never been changed. We suddenly realized that the teenagers were really the reason for the higher electric bills. After the Heating and Air Conditioning worker finished with our service appointment, both of us sat down with the teenagers to discuss energy-saving Solutions and ways to lower the bills in the house. We also discussed buying a smart control device so my husbandy and I are the only people that can adjust the indoor un-even temperatures. A smart control device can also help us save cash by reading our patterns and automatically cooling the lake house on a schedule.