What does your house idle at?

[azdave]

I shut off / unplugged all non-essential electronics, set the HW tank to vacation mode and turned the central air / de-humidifier to 74 degrees (normally set to 68) for the duration. That left two refrigerators, a freezer, required electronics and a wine cooler running for the week

That's like a sub-idle situation if you unplugged all those electronics and set everything to un-occupied levels. I consider my idle to be what the home consumes when only the HVAC system is off. The HVAC varies substantially with the seasons but the rest of the loads are pretty much active 365 days a year. The refrigerator, freezer and the pool pump still need to run whether I'm home or not so I average the idle readings recorded over several days away to estimate my base idle which is 12kWh per day.