I'm always reading about how though the equipment is turned off its still using power. I guess you just taught us a thing or two. If these items are still using power with the power turned off on the house, can you imagine how much power is being using when the power is turned on in the house? WOW!!!!!
My sister's house she bought last year has a "low voltage" system whatever that means. I've been told this is mostly a commercial system but I may be incorrect on that note. Anyway, she has this wall of electrical boxes down in her basement but she was still on a fuse box. For insurance purposes she had to change over to a breaker box but only 2 electricians in her little town knew how to work on these systems. She has a little panel box for each floor with little red lights that let you know if you've left a light on so instead of having to go upstairs or downstairs you can turn the power off from this little panel. Its only about 3 x 3 so not huge. She had LED overhead work lights installed in her basement and she leaves these lights on all the time. Plus she's changing out all her lightbulbs to LED where ever she can. Her power bills is less than mine by a longshot. So there must be something to these LED lightbulbs. As my overhead lights go belly up I'm changing them out to LED too. They're expensive at first but if they help with the power bill I'm all for it.
Remember when the curly Q lightbulbs were the big fad? Well now they're saying they're dangerous and not to use them. I don't think you can even find them on the market anymore. My mother used to buy them by the case load so when she moved to my sister's house she left them behind. I got rid of half of them but only have them in my outside lights till I run out. Just something to think about.