According to the U.S. Department of Energy adding insulation to your hot water heater can reduce your heat losses by 25% - 45%. If your tank is rated at an R value of under 24, your hot water heater is probably not working efficiently. If you don’t know what your tank’s R value is, touch [...]
Being frugal and being cheap tend to get lumped together a lot, especially by people who do not live, or understand, a frugal lifestyle. It is easy to get the two confused. Believe me, even if you are striving to live frugally, it is still easy to get trapped in the mindset of “cheaper is [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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