> Yesterday night, I just make the A/C runs its fans all night. If you run it every night, and if you're doing it just for the noise, understand that your next

> Yesterday night, I just make the A/C runs its fans all night. If you run it every night, and if you're doing it just for the noise, understand that your next month's electricity bill is going to be quite... shocking. We used to run box fans at night in our bedroom when we lived in apartments to drown out the sounds of neighbors and traffic noise. We continued the tradition when we bought our first house. One day I decided to get some real data on what our energy spending was and plugged a box fan into a kill-a-watt. I don't remember the exact number but it was high enough that the very next day I bought a "white noise machine" for every bedroom in the house and our monthly electricity bill dropped IN HALF. Basically paid for themselves in the first week. The best white noise machines are made by "LectroFan". These used to cost $15 on Amazon, now they are $50. Whichever brand you buy, the most important thing is to get one with a good-size speaker so that it can reproduce lower frequencies decently.