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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mickymouse" data-source="post: 1307392" data-attributes="member: 6970">No need to go overboard with these things, no point in unplugging a kettle for instance when it's switched off, only things with a standby function are likely to benefit from it.Do a test, switch everything in your house off read the meter then read it again an hour later and work out what you are actually consuming, I did it once and it turned out for me that all the standby functions and pilot lights etc came to about 10 pence a month, that was a couple of years ago though and it hasn't gone up that much since.Sounds like scaremongering to me.Mick</blockquote>