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

I guess it’s not really something you think about that much, but when I actually focused my attention solely on my heating and cooling system, I realized how much of it I was actually using.

I had my a/c on almost 24/7 in the summertime and I had the heating unit on almost 24/7 on in the winter. Not only was this really bad for my AC and heating system, but it was burning through my electricity bills! So, in an attempt to keep my bills down, I decided I was going to try to find alternate methods to keeping myself cool. Some of the methods I used were my mini battery operated handheld fan, wet washcloths and opening windows to allow a cooling breeze to enter my home. Admittedly, while it was enough to get me by, I was not satisfied. The handheld fan did very little unless it was directly in front of your face, the washcloths became warm way too quickly and opening the windows allowed bugs in my home, some of which were angry wasps. I knew this wasn’t going to work, so I decided to only use my a/c unit for parts of the day, and only a couple of hours 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 my money, but I wasn’t overheating either.

Cooling system