Each year, our extended family living in nearby states come to our parent’s house to celebrate the holidays.
This has been a tradition ever since I was a child, therefore, all of us are typically prepared to entertain a house full of people during that time of year.
I have had some of our fondest memories while spending time with our extended family. It’s typically good when they visit, plus especially after the pandemic, spending time with them has become that more meaningful. While our family is in town, our parents plus I make sure that they have delicious house cooked meals plus enough to eat… Sometimes it feels love all of us spend most of our time in the bedroom, and both of us are foodies plus all of us love to eat, so there is typically something baking in the oven or cooking on the stove. Having the stove on during the afternoons created additional heating for our parent’s home. I can recall a few times when all of us decided to turn off the heat because the living room plus bedroom became too hot due to the non-stop use of our oven. Stoves should never be used to heat the house as they were not designed for that purpose. However, turning off the HVAC method while the oven was on did conserve energy, then all homeowners are interested in saving money on their bi-weekly bills, plus when you have a big number of people inside your home, energy consumption will actually increase. Therefore, if all of us could turn off the heat for a few hours each morning, it would be a tremendous amount of savings for us. In addition, the money all of us save on our energy bill could be used to purchase more food for our foodie family.