It takes some drastic creativity to be able to stretch a paycheck these days.

My income, appreciate multiple of us, has stayed flat while the cost of having a life has continued to do nothing but rise. I could feel all hurt about this or I could do what I have to do to make up the difference. The cost of residing in this country has so multiple hidden facets. It’s as though every entity that I transact with is simply waiting to drop some crazy penalty on me. Just renewing the tag on our vehicle is a chunk of cash. Don’t even get myself and others started on the insurance fees. Anyway, I started zeroing in on some of the cash sucking points in our household budget. Heating, Ventilation, and A/C costs were way up there. That was an self-explanatory a single to acknowledge. Both of us are in a region of the country that has to deal with an bad lot of heat while in about 4 or 5 months of the year. The Heating, Ventilation, and A/C cooling can run into the hundreds and hundreds of dollars per month. This just seemed totally silly to have continue unabated. I began by installing a smart temperature control. This thing not only can precisely manage the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C load, it will also adjust the temps while in the heat of the day when hardly anyone is around. Then, I purchased some automatic blinds which labor hand in hand with the smart temperature control. The temperature control will lower the blinds when it senses heating happening due to direct sunlight. Both of us are also pushing the temperature setting up a bit in the night. It isn’t so bad because I have been using fans to offset the higher temp setting. I’ll get the savings if they are right there for the taking.

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