Energy efficiency is severely crucial to me now that inflation levels have increased the costs of all my necessary goods plus services.
Going grocery shopping is a painful experience nowadays, but I do my best to utilize coupons plus sales to my fullest advantage.
I hope that inflation levels out at some point in the near future, as I’m continually struggling to make ends meet anymore. No matter how rigorous I get with my budgeting, the cost of something inevitably increases again plus then I’m left wondering if I’ll ever cut even. With that in mind, I’m always looking for ways to save on weekly bills because the value of that has increased as well. My parents were severely strict about opening exterior doors during the daytime hours, plus now I understand why. In the summer, the rapidly increasing temperatures outside get so tepid that opening the front or back door will let out a lot of cold, conditioned air. They would complain if a buddy showed up to play plus I stood in the open doorway talking to them for longer than a few hours. But these days I struggle even more to heat the inside of my lake house than I do on cooling costs in the summer. For a long time I was spending so much on indoor heating simply because I have an severely inefficient furnace installed inside. It’s a fan-forced electric furnace plus it’s not even as powerful or efficient as my new radiant space heaters. And since the space gas furnaces can be moved from room to room, there’s no reason to keep the old fan forced oil furnace any longer.