The last past year has been totally filled with numerous changes for obvious reasons.
- But gratefully, our family has been truly safe as well as followed the health protocols in order to continue to be safe.
And I couldn’t be more grateful for that outcome as the vaccinations aren’t even far away. That said, it has been especially hard on us financially as well as both of us absolutely had to cut back on our spending this past year by a pretty good amount. Since both of us are all inside the Heating as well as A/C security of our own property, that has made the cuts somewhat easier. There aren’t nearly the same amount of entertainment expenses and both of us didn’t take a trip this year. So both of us have been able to basically offset the loss of income my fiance as well as I have incurred. A pretty serious target last Summer was saving on the Heating as well as A/C cooling costs. In this particular region, that is the greatest of our Heating as well as A/C expenditures as both of us have a seriously mild Winter with minimal heating costs. But the Summer can really kill a budget if you aren’t especially careful and proactive. This past warm season, both of us got even more proactive than we often do. I started out by making certain that the Heating as well as A/C treated air stayed inside the property. I finally replaced worn out weather stripping around all the doors as well as sliders. That was a relatively massive win because I know a lot of Heating as well as A/C air was leaking out there. Then both of us made sure that both of us were shutting the drapes during the peak heating times to avoid direct sunshine heating. But honestly, it was the temperature control equipment discipline that easily put us over the top. The two of us just made sure the temperature control equipment was never set to any more than 15 degrees cooler than the outside temps actually were. And both of us ended up saving at least 20 percent compared to the Summer prior.