Watching DVD box sets until the small hours; playing Wii bowling so hard you get blisters; sleeping with a Blackberry under your pillow - keeping plugged in can be knackering.
Machines suck energy - and not just ours.
Whether we're giving them our full attention, have left them on in the background, or are just making them kick their heels on standby, they devour power like it's going out of fashion.
And creating all this energy generates tonnes and tonnes of harmful CO2.
So give the planet and yourself a well-deserved break by Plugging Out and going analogue more often.
Switch off Guitar Hero and pick up an acoustic guitar; go for a kickaround rather than watching Match of the Day; and put down your iPod and try whistling a tune instead - just avoid Bohemian Rhapsody if you're asthmatic.
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If someone buzzes up to you and asks why you're bothering to Plug Out, don't get tongue-tied. Zap back with one of these electric comebacks:
- With all my standby lights on, my lounge looks like a red-light district for perverted pixies
- Plug off and fry
- Aliens are talking to me through my telly - and to be honest, I'm finding them rather boring
- Because I am Neo - although you can call me The One
- I got tennis elbow from my Wii and the doctor told me I had to retire from the game
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