Lately, I have been trying to save money and I was amazed at how much of the I have been using.

I suppose it’s not definitely something you know about that much, but when I actually focused our attention solely on our heating and cooling system, I realized how much of it I was actually using.

I had our on almost 24/7 in the summertime and I had the heating device on almost 24/7 on in the winter, however not only was this definitely terrible for our A/C and oil furnace, but it was burning through our electricity bills! So, in an attempt to keep our bills down, I decided I was going to try to find alternate methods to keeping myself cool. Some of the methods I used were our mini battery operated handheld fan, wet washcloths and opening windows to allow a cooling breeze to enter our home. Admittedly, while it was enough to get me by, I was not satisfied. The handheld fan did undoubtedly little unless it was directly in front of your face, the washcloths became sizzling way too suddenly and opening the windows allowed bugs in our home, some of which were miserable wasps. I knew this wasn’t going to work, so I decided to only use our device for parts of the afternoon, and only a couple of sevenths at the time. I combined the alternative methods of keeping myself cool with the actual cooling system, and this seemed to make a nice middle ground. Now I wasn’t burning all of our money, but I wasn’t overheating either.

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