Our house gets super warm during the winter months

It is either all or nothing when it comes to heating our little house.

We live in a small old house out in the middle of nowhere.

I really love where we live, and I love living in a small house. There is something about small houses that feels cozy and comfy to me. Our house is definitely cozy and comfy during the winter months because we have a wood stove. It keeps the house so warm that it is hard not to be sleepy all day long. It literally gets up to ninety degrees in our house sometimes. It makes me really happy, but my husband does not like it as much as I do. He likes it to be about seventy-five degrees and no warmer. I think that if the house was a bit bigger, there would be no problem with it getting too warm. I believe that the problem is that the wood stove is a bit too big for our little house. My husband loves having a wood stove, but he has been debating getting a new one that is quite a bit smaller. It would cost a lot of money, and ours still works great, so that is the only thing that is keeping him from buying a new one. I am going to try and see if I can sell our wood stove this summer that way my husband can use that money to buy a new one. It will make him feel better about it for sure. If I am able to sell it, I will definitely miss having a super warm house during the winter months, but I guess it’s a good thing in the long run.

 

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My favorite time of year is when air conditioners go on sale

I can’t wait until someone else needs an air conditioner

I may have a slight obsession with air conditioners. I am known as the air conditioner lady both in my family and in my church. It is sort of cool if you ask me. I really love to find great deals on anything but especially on air conditioners. I have been known to find the best deals on air conditioners. I buy them for people who need them. I have probably bought over twenty air conditioners in the past two years for people in my church and for some of my family members. This year, I am buying an air conditioner for my daughter. She has been needing one for a few months now, but I was not able to find any good deals until now. I have found that at certain times of the year, certain stores have sales on air conditioners, and that is when I buy them. My daughter is picky, and she wants a certain type of air conditioner which makes finding one on sale very difficult, but I was able to find one after hours of researching. I hope that she likes it. I am going to give it to her for her birthday next week. I am sure that she will be super excited about it since summer is almost here, and she does not want to go another summer without air conditioner I am sure. She is not the kind of person who likes to be warm. I can’t wait until someone else needs an air conditioner. I just love searching for them. It is so nice to help people even if it may be in a strange way like finding them an air conditioner for a cheap price.

 

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I am finally taking the time to clean my HVAC units

The furnace was not nearly as bad as the air conditioner, luckily, but it was still quite a job to clean it

I have realized recently that there are many things that I overlook when it comes to cleaning. I have worked a full time job ever since my husband and I were first married, so cleaning some of the overlooked things was a once a year kind of thing. Now that I am a stay at home mom, I realize that those things probably should be cleaned more often. Our air conditioner is one of those things that I have literally never cleaned. I know it is pretty sad considering we have been using the same air conditioner for almost seven years now. I noticed that the living room was starting to smell a little bit musty, and at first, I could not figure out where the smell was coming from. After a little bit of searching, I realized that it was coming from the air conditioner. I took the air conditioner apart to see if I could find the source of the smell, and I realized that the entire air conditioner was filled with mildew. It was very gross to say the least. I thought about just throwing the air conditioner away and buying a brand new one, but I decided to try and clean it first. Thankfully, it cleaned up quite well. I replaced the filter that should have been replaced years ago. The air conditioner grossed me out so badly that I decided that I should probably clean my furnace as well. The furnace was not nearly as bad as the air conditioner, luckily, but it was still quite a job to clean it. Tomorrow, I think that I will clean all of the vents in the house.

 

 

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Living in a large house is expensive to heat and cool

There is only one thing that I miss about living in our little one bedroom apartment and that is how cheap it was to heat and cool the place.

We hardly paid anything in gas or electric.

I had gotten so used to it that when we finally moved into our dream home, I was definitely caught off guard by the prices of our electric bill and gas bill. We lived in a one bedroom apartment with three children which was a nightmare, but we did it for many years. We looked and looked for a house that was within our price range yet still very nice, but we did not find one for many years. My husband worked so hard to try and find a place, and when we finally found the house of our dreams, we were ecstatic! We were able to move into the new house within just a few weeks because it had been empty for awhile. It is a beautiful two story house, and it has a three car garage which my husband absolutely loves. The kids each have their own bedroom now instead of sharing part of the living room. It is really a dream come true for our family. The only issue that I have is the heating and cooling bills. During the summertime, we spend over eight times as much on our electric bill than we did before because of the central air conditioning system. Of course, I knew that the bills would go up, but I guess was just not prepared for how much the bills would go up.

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Living in a small apartment saves so much money on our gas bill

I bought my first house when I was twenty-two years old, and it was a huge, old farmhouse.

I loved that house so much.

After my husband and I got married, he moved into the farmhouse with me, and we lived there for twenty years. We would have never moved except for the fact that the house was basically falling apart around us. It needed so much work because it was very old. I did not want to leave at all. It took many tears and fighting with myself to finally give in and sell that house. My husband and I moved into an apartment for the time being. We are currently looking for a newer home to buy, but we have not been able to find one that we like yet, so we are settling into the apartment for the winter. We had to turn our furnace on for the first time this year about two months ago, and I am just now realizing how much money we are saving on our gas bill by living in such a small apartment. I never thought that I would like living in a small place, but I actually have learned to enjoy it. I had to get rid of a lot of things, but they were all things that I did not even need. When I consider how much money we are saving on gas and even our electric bill, I am convinced that I could enjoy living in a small house for the rest of my life. Heating our huge farmhouse was so expensive. I literally had to work part time over the winter just to be able to pay our heating bills. I think I can get used to living in a small space.

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I bought a dehumidifier for my basement, and it does not seem to be doing anything

My husband and I have been having a couple major issues with our house recently.

One of the issues has been flooding in our basement.

My husband and his friend dug some sort of ditch last year that they thought would help deter the water from coming into the basement, but it obviously did not work. I feel so bad because they spent a lot of time digging that ditch. My husband has been looking for some ways to stop the water once again, but he has had no luck so far. The basement does not flood nearly as bad as it did last year, but the floor down there still stays pretty wet. I decided to buy a dehumidifier to go down there to see if it would help collect some of that water. I did not know what dehumidifier to buy, so I looked at several different stores and online. After looking at the reviews of many dehumidifiers, I finally picked one. It was not the most expensive, but it was close to it. I wanted one that would work well. I have been using the dehumidifier for almost two weeks now, and I feel like it is doing absolutely nothing. I know that it is doing something because I empty water out of it everyday, but it just does not do much compared to how much water comes into the basement. I have thought about getting a second dehumidifier, but my husband said that it probably will not make enough of a difference. He does not think that it will be worth the cost of another dehumidifier. However, a friend offered me a free dehumidifier, so I am going to go over to her house and pick it up tonight.

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I have three air conditioners, and I only need one

I have some of the sweetest friends in the entire world.

Most of my friends are either from the church that I am part of or from my hometown about four hours north of where I am living now.

They have always been there for me. Last year, my brother suddenly passed away, and it was by far the hardest thing that I have ever been through. If it was not for the love and care of my friends, I do not know where I would be today. They helped me get through by providing meals for me and making sure that all my bills were paid because I was not able to work for a couple of weeks. I could not believe how much they did for me during that time. Well, a couple of weeks ago, my air conditioner started making some weird noises. I knew that it was not good, but I was hoping that it would at least last for the rest of the summer. It lasted about two and a half weeks before it just stopped working completely. I told one of my close friends from church that my air conditioner stopped working, and she took it upon herself to buy me a brand new air conditioner. Somehow, word must have spread because within two days time, I had three brand new air conditioners delivered to me. Now, I live in a tiny apartment, so I definitely do not need three air conditioners. One air conditioner is enough to cool my entire house. I am not sure what I will do with the other two yet, but I feel so overwhelmingly blessed to have such wonderful friends.
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I got a new job, and there is no air conditioning

I hate changing jobs.

It is one of the hardest things for me to do. I have only had three jobs since I moved out of the house which is not too bad considering I am thirty-five years old. My first job after college was by far my favorite, but they started changing policies, and the new policies had some rules that I simply did not agree with, so I ended up leaving. It took a lot for me to leave that job because I had so many good friends. I took a temporary job at a preschool while I was looking for another job that would involve me working with plants. I worked at the preschool for a couple of years, and I loved it. I was offered a landscaping job that paid a lot more money, so I ended up taking that, and it has been my favorite job thus far. I have been with the company for over ten years now, and I love it. I just changed positions though. I now do the actual designing of the landscape for new homes, and it is really fun, except for the fact that I am outside for most of the day. It gets really hot here, and I am used to being in air conditioning for most of the day. My husband works outside every single day of the year, and he thinks that I am crazy for complaining about the heat. I think my body will get used to the hot temperatures sooner or later, but for right now, I really do not enjoy how warm it is outside.

 

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My air conditioner in my car is giving me trouble

I think I just have bad luck when it comes to vehicles.

  • Ever since I got my first car, I have had vehicle troubles left and right.

I know that first cars usually have a lot of issues because they are normally lemons. My first car was no exception, but once I saved up enough money, I bought a much newer car that only had forty thousand miles on it. I thought for sure that my newer car would not have any major issues, but within just four months of owning it, the transmission went on it. I bought another car that was only four years old, and I have been driving that car for the past five years. I have had to replace some things in this car, but nothing major. I am really nervous though because the air conditioning in my car has been giving me trouble lately. It is late summer, so some days I do not even need air conditioning, but there are other days that get up into the nineties, and I need air conditioning on those days. Last Monday was one of those hot days, and I turned on my air conditioner on the way to work. I noticed after about ten minutes of it running that it was not blowing very cool air. It was cooler than outside, but not as cold as it normally was. Yesterday, it was pretty warm again, so I tried turning my air conditioner on once again, and it was blowing warm air. This time it felt just as warm as the outside air if not even warmer. I am going to take my car to the mechanic this afternoon, but I hope that it is not too expensive to repair.
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