What I'm Reading This Week #30
Happy Final Friday of July everyone! I will not be sad to see this month in the rear view. The Mr finished the HOA minion's job by checking on the basement wall crevasse of missing mortar pretty much every waking hour after he "filled" the hole. I gave him a bamboo skewer to see if it hit the long bottom we saw with the camera. Nope. source When he poked it, it drained away. Every hour, he'd do the same and it kept emptying. I had him check to make sure it wasn't pouring out the front of the house and thankfully it wasn't. But if you figure that water has been etching away at the stairstep crack leading from the top of the hole then that goes down the entire length of the wall , so it had a long way to travel. In the end not only did the Mr use one quart of the filler but had to buy another one and used 1/3 of the bottle before it finally started leveling off!! If we'd left it to the HOA dude, an eighth of the bottle woul...
I saw a challenge on Oprah decades ago. Unplugged everything not used and saved alot.
ReplyDeleteThese are all good tips. Waiting until after peak should really save a lot.
ReplyDeleteOur peak hours go to 7pm during the week, so I've done that for years with waiting until then to run the washer and dryer, or weekends when you can run them at any time. We keep the thermostat between 62 - 65 at night during winter. I wash dishes by hand, unplug what I can, use cold water for laundry, and use those child safety covers in outlets around the perimeter of the house to block air coming in, either hot or cold. I no longer feel a draft in the living room or kitchen since doing that. During winter you could literally feel the breeze come through the outlets that were not used. Crazy. I got lazy about it this winter because I was trying to get laundry done while I worked, and our bill skyrocketed.
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