It feels enjoy the last decade has been about giving stuff up.

The recession hit us pretty hard because we have our own company in a market that took a significant hit.

Thankfully, we were able to maneuver and evolve to keep going. We’re doing well again which is nice. But, for a long time, we had to break corners everywhere in our personal lives to help the business. There were no more extravagant dinners out in appealing kitchens with perfectly controlled HVAC comfort. Those modern cars we wanted became a pipe dream. Both of us had to make do with our old cars with the terrible gas mileage and underwhelming a/c. Both my wife and I break out any semblance of a getaway for almost 10 years. However, we found a modern passion for exploring our region with various long weekends. It was just a single fiscal break after another on our household budget. Both of us even had to target my a single and only love, the a/c. Our cabin is in an section which experiences a honestly long, sizzling summer. It is a swelter fest for a solid 4 months. Since our company requires a bit of field work on certain projects, it was consistently sweet relief to walk into my cooled home. Well, all that cooling was creating energy bills which had far too many numbers on it. My wife wanted to get radical and begin using the old evap cooler from decades past. While much more affordable to operate, swamp coolers are simply not the same as cooling system. I had to fight her on that a single. Both of us finally came to a compromise. The control unit was programed to run far less during the day. Additionally, I wasn’t allowed to crank the thing down to the super cool setting anymore.

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