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When waste is warmth...
Bear in mind that all the electricity these appliances waste becomes heat.
When the weather is cold, eliminating this waste will increase the amount of money directly spent on heating. At the extreme, if your home is electrically heated, the extra heating cost may cancel out the predicted 'savings'.
But in hot weather, when you are paying for air conditioning rather than for heating, you pay twice for that wasted electricity, first for consuming it (turning it into heat), and then again for the extra electricity your air conditioner uses to get rid of it.