This not so cool house

Of course the air conditioner in the house is on the fritz. Just a day after asking an a/c friend how his side jobs were going. Looks like we need to ask him for a visit to figure out why the unit is dripping water and the platform is damp and what in the heck is that intermittent noise. Awe heck, I just unplugged the thing and pulled out the fans from storage.

We are on a level pay plan with the electric company. We pay over $300.00 a month in electricity alone. We have paid the bill entirely in the past several months when not paid by my mother-in-law. I have been shutting this and that off when not in use. I can’t blame the kids entirely. I still however; cannot understand why my son needs the light on when taking a bath in the late morning.

We have a large home and I am constantly turning off lights and replacing them with high efficiency long lasting bulbs. We do have two refrigerators and a separate freezer. We should get more in tune with using only one of them more wisely and unplugging the other. The stand alone freezer has aged ice cubes and old ice cream. Maybe it’s time to unplug that as well. The more I type, the more ideas I have for saving electricity and the slower I type because of all of these ideas. Must save electricity.

I wonder if we can get by without the a/c after all…….naaa. Bummer, looks like the emergency fund will need to get tapped. The good news is that we should not have to use credit to get that cool house we once enjoyed.