My mom always says to shut to shut the light off..and to not flick it off and on.My mom says that every time you flick an outlet it charges money to ur bill...is this accurate?
S. is correct. There's more energy consumed getting a light to light than keeping it lit. So flicking it on an off is a little wasteful. Its not a big deal. Otherwise, people wouldn't use Christmas light that blink all the time.
Somewhere on the outside of your home, is a power meter. It counts EVERY watt you use. But it only goes up by 1 for ever 1000watt/hours you use. So it would be very hard to see the power wasted by flicking the light on and off a couple of times. But if fact it is a little wasteful.