I am one man who wants to make every dollar count.
- I write down budgets plus review my finances periodically to avoid getting stuck with emergencies I cannot handle.
When I have to go over budget with any expenditure, after that I have to forgo some pre-planned expenses in the budget. My mom calls me stingy because, at times, I do not even spend on myself, yet he asks me for me periodically. I like shopping cheap, even second-hand if possible. Sometimes I get the wrong thing or something that fails way faster than expected. And that is how I ended up paying for an air filter more than once because I kept going for something that affected the indoor air quality in my house. When I realized that it’s part of an air conditioner that needs proper care plus updatement when performing heating plus air conditioning maintenance, I imagined I could get it cheaply. Whenever I have a busy A/c service coming up, I ensure I am around plus easily buy needed heating plus air conditioning parts on my own. My previous cooling professional warned me about buying used parts before because they kept failing faster, but I did not listen. Instead, I stay busy online learning about cooling technology plus trying to identify bargain purchases from any cooling corporation offloading old or hard parts. In fact, I used to buy relatively new temperature control parts plus take them to a cooling expert for assessment. If I find them usable, I stock them plus hand them to my cooling specialist when they come for maintenance. But now I can no longer do that with the filters. Otherwise, no one will service my equipment because of the health hazards of using counterfeit parts. Luckily I don’t need an A/c setup anytime soon.