What do you do when your heating and cooling bill is too high? Well if you are anything like my dad, you do literally anything and everything except spend more money on the air conditioning system.
Growing up, I still remember all of my dad’s wacky ways of trying to save money.
Some of the methods he used are quite creative. However, more often than not they didn’t really do anything, and my siblings and I were kind of left to suffer in the heat or cold. My father tried all of the traditional methods like running multiple fans, or closing the windows to prevent sunlight from coming in, but I guess that wasn’t enough. One of the ways he tried to keep us cool was by putting buckets of ice water around the house, that way if we feel hot, we just pour a little bit on us to feel cool again. That didn’t work because not only was the water too cold, but we were wet too. Then at some point he tried using essential oils that were supposed to cool our skin or something like that, and ofcourse that failed too. I am glad that I am all grown up now and have my own central air conditioner. While running the central A/C is expensive, no doubt, I think it is worth it if it means having nice cool air. I love coming home to a nice air conditioned house, I think it is one of the best feelings, and being in control of my own HVAC is great as well.