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, the people I was with and I are regularly prepared to entertain a house full of people while I was in that time of year.
I have had some of our fondest memories while spending time with our extended family. It’s regularly great when they visit, and especially after the pandemic, spending time with them has become that more meaningful. While our family is in town, our parents and I make sure that they have delicious house cooked meals and enough to eat. Occasionally it feels enjoy the people I was with and I spend most of our time in the dining room. The people I was with and I are foodies and the people I was with and I love to eat, so there is regularly something baking in the oven or cooking on the stove. Having the stove on while I was in the days created additional heating for our parent’s home. I can recall a few times when the people I was with and I decided to turn off the heat because the kitchen and dining room became too sizzling 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 Heating, Ventilation, and A/C system while the oven was on did conserve energy… All homeowners are interested in saving money on their energy bills, and when you have a giant number of people inside your home, energy consumption will actually increase. Therefore, if the people I was with and I could turn off the heat for a few hours each day, it would be a tremendous amount of savings for us. In addition, the money the people I was with and I save on our energy bill could be used to purchase more food for our foodie family.