Turns out Duct Tape Cannot Fix Everything: Things I Learned during our Free Energy Audit

It is nice to have an experienced professional come into your home and objectively review its inefficiencies without an ulterior motive; AC repairmen want to sell you products, and home warranty companies want to hide your home’s defects so that they do not have to pay to have them fixed. But an energy audit from [...]

Frugal Confessions Friday!!

Hello Frugal Confessions Readers! Happy Friday. For those of you new to this series, check out the introduction here. Here is my confession of the week: Since the weather has turned absolutely beautiful down here over the last two weeks (in Houston), we have turned off our heat/cooling system and opened up the windows instead, [...]