I literally cannot believe that my parents still do not have a furnace.
The way that they heat their house is extremely unsafe and dangerous, and they have been doing it for nearly 6 years.
There have even been a few times when my mother almost burned the house down because of the way in which they heat their house. My parents have always dreamed of owning a house, but their credit is terrible, and the only way that they are going to be able to own the house is by doing a rent-to-own contract on a house in terrible condition. Sure, they found a house that was within their budget, but the house literally had no appliances, including no furnace. Sure, there were other problems, but they live in the North, and having a furnace is a pretty major deal in the North. You could literally die in your house without a furnace, and they didn’t have a furnace. They knew that they weren’t going to be able to afford a furnace, so they began buying different types of space heaters that run on different types of fuels. Already, you probably know that space heaters are not nearly as safe as a furnace. However, it is much worse than that. My parents couldn’t afford a new space heater, so they purchased old and used space heaters for their house. There were multiple times where they almost died because they almost burned their house down with these space heaters. It has been years, and they are content with not owning a furnace. I have no idea how they do it. I would never want to live without a normal heating system.