It's seems to be always a Mercedes..
Maybe your dining area ceiling fan needs some WD40...lol. Yes, not only does it save on electricity bills, but think its better for your body also. We found out that because of living where its more warm throughout much of the year, when it gets chilly in winter we freeze. We used to keep the house very warm in the winter - found out its better to keep it cooler in winter. That way when you go outside you aren't so fridgedly cold. Just put a sweater on in the house, if needed.
That's wonderful, @Colleen! Keep us posted on how it works out in the long run.
It bugs me when people take all the "freebies" they can get when they really don't need them. The way I see it, it's taking away limited resources from people who really do need the help.
That's a good idea, @Liberty! It's good when an apartment includes utilities in the monthly rent, but if it doesn't, it surely is something to ask about!
My former MIL (who has long since passed so I don't like speaking ill of the dead but I'm making an exception here) was the queen of thrift even though she could afford whatever she needed. In the town in which she lived, there was a food bank that handed out a bag of staples each week to low-income families. The bag usually contained a carton of milk, cheese, bread, peanut butter, grape jelly and some fresh vegetables. Each week my MIL would go and pick up a bag which meant that someone else didn't get one. I never understood why she didn't see how wrong this was.
Careful there, your accusatory words may cause an international incident! Or another conspiracy theory
Yeah
sometimes it's being so mean and tight that makes people so rich...
My parents were extremely frugal simply because one wage or sometimes 2 wages when my mum was able to work just wasn't enough to feed and clothe 6... there was no help in those days.. no child Tax credits, no benefits of any kind like they get today. In those days child benefit was paid out at a paltry rate for the eldest child and less for the second and third and then nothing for any children after. .. so we had very little in the way of food.. or material things. For example.. in our house the same ornaments were there from the time I was born until my mother died, they wouldn't ever have replaced them, the same curtains, the same everything unless it got broken and had to be replaced, nothing was ever changed just for the sake of it as we do today..
Sadly, some people have a disconnect or an entitlement. Their brains are just different I guess. I've never needed to utilize a food bank. I would if I really needed it, but only then.
Exactly. The stories I could tell about her (my former MIL) and how conniving she was when it came to money would border on unbelievable but they're all true.
Yes, things like this have happened, and we have learned from them. This risk is much lower now, we have learned a lot about how to do it safely. And fracking only represents a very small part of the toxic waters injected into the subsurface, for some reason we are a lot more afraid of fracking than toxic wastewater disposal by subsurface injection, a much more common event with similar problems.Fracking's environmental effect on clean water. <--
The bottle in the center is contaminated water from their tap caused by fracking.
I have one setting in the summer regardless of how hot it gets. Thermostat at 79 all day, everyday. To sleep at night, I just turn on the ceiling fan to be more comfortable.In an effort to lower my electricity bill, today I raised my thermostat to 76. I usually keep it at 72. As a result, I changed from my usual long-sleeved top to a sleeveless top and made sure the ceiling fans were working. it's been very comfortable all day, even though outside was in the upper 80s. The other change I did was to wash my clothes with cold water instead of warm or hot water. I have not used a clothes line for drying - yet. Incremental steps will get me there.
My mother lives in Florida and also has the thermostat at 79. I will see about raising the thermostat a little more. Thanks for the suggestion.
