Saving

The engineers at the Good Housekeeping Institute offer some advice on how to reduce energy costs. While we won't need to implement the heating ideas for quite awhile, the advice on programmable thermostats is useful for year-round temperature setting.

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Sometime last year, things started going a little hinky for us. I was a SAHM, my husband worked from before the sun came up until well after it went down, 6 days a week. Sure we had plenty of money, but we didn't get any quality time alone, or as a family, outside of going to church on Sundays.

Hours got cut, and drastic changes were made. My husband got a job with another company, and then several weeks into the job, was told that he was expendable, and was sent on his way. Uh-oh.
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