It's a coooooold winter. For us, anyway. In our houses that were built as though the temp would never go below 15C or above 30C, during a time when energy was cheap and "eh, if it's too extreme, we'll just turn on the aircon/heating".
Times have changed and the builders are all snugly in the ground or in a nursing home, while the people living in their houses shiver or sweat, and the people living in the houses subsequently built to a "we'll just turn on temperature control" standard (ie. none at all) shiver or sweat...
The bill always comes due. It's just that sometimes we don't care who pays it, so long as it's someone else.
It just occurred to me that this is perhaps the perfect winter to use the timed gas heater.
I mean, we used it a couple of winters back, but B1 didn't like the smell of gas. However, she's not in the house this winter to object! I'll try to remember to dig it out of storage tonight. Mind you, gas prices are kinda crazy, so it could get pricey - meanwhile, the solar appears to be doing pretty well at keeping our bill down.
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Unpacking the house is still not happening. I'm just not managing to sort through things - I get hamstrung by decision-making about what goes where, how do I sort things, what about memento stuff?
Times have changed and the builders are all snugly in the ground or in a nursing home, while the people living in their houses shiver or sweat, and the people living in the houses subsequently built to a "we'll just turn on temperature control" standard (ie. none at all) shiver or sweat...
The bill always comes due. It's just that sometimes we don't care who pays it, so long as it's someone else.
It just occurred to me that this is perhaps the perfect winter to use the timed gas heater.
I mean, we used it a couple of winters back, but B1 didn't like the smell of gas. However, she's not in the house this winter to object! I'll try to remember to dig it out of storage tonight. Mind you, gas prices are kinda crazy, so it could get pricey - meanwhile, the solar appears to be doing pretty well at keeping our bill down.
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Unpacking the house is still not happening. I'm just not managing to sort through things - I get hamstrung by decision-making about what goes where, how do I sort things, what about memento stuff?
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