This thread is inspiring, we used to have super low electricity usage, but adding kids and a bigger house has tanked it. But this seems like a good challenge, I watched that show someone linked here where they used human power to power up a house, I then went around unplugging everything in sight that we didn't need at that moment.
We have a high bill for a couple of reasons:
1) we live in a hot/cold climate and use heat for at least 6-8mo out of the year and then we use AC for another 2-3mo, so we get no break their, true we wouldn't have to use AC, I will see what we can cut next year in that area, maybe even set up a sleeping area downstairs and utilize the basement cold air, for free.
2) our house is large, embarrassingly large, so it takes a lot to heat and cool it, and use lights, we bought a foreclosure, we would never choose to build this big, we hope to sell it for a good profit within the next year.
3) we have a heat pump, to save on propane, which is our only choice, it's quite expensive, so it helps with that bill, but that means our electricity is being used a lot more than at our last place with a regular forced air gas powered heat.
With all of those excuses aside, we can still make huge improvements, I figured out our average usage for the last calendar year and it was 52kwh/day I know that is a LOT, we have 5 people living in a 6k sq ft house and 3 of us are home all day long. I hope to bring that average down significantly. I will use a lot of diff. things, we will shower at the gym more, (I know a gym membership is dumb, but right now it works well for us) turn off more lights, keep the heat low, we already never put it above 64, and we sleep with it at 62. Be more conscious of my baking, use the stove for more than 1 thing at a time, or pre bake stuff. I figure just being aware of it will bring it down. As a whole family, we aren't big energy wasters though, there isn't a ton of fat to cut, it's just a big house and our climate is cold. We could heat with wood, but it would cost a huge amount to get it set up, like 6k or more, to buy the stove and retro fit everything, just not a big enough pay off at this time.