i'm an energy saving freak
ok, i've just found out that i have some freakish qualities. maybe i've had these qualities for awhile, or for a lifetime, but i've been oblivious until now. brett and i moved into our new house on saturday (!). it's weird. i'm still afraid to hang pictures on the wall for fear that the landlord might take away my deposit. only, i am the landlord and i usually don't withold many things from myself.
so anyway, since moving in i have found that i am tirelessly trying to find ways to save energy in the house. there are the obvious things such as turning off lights and keeping the heat down to a cool 63-64 degrees, only when we're home. but, then there are these freakish ways that i think are starting to scare brett. for example, the refrigerator that was left in the house is probably 100 years old. there is a reason the people left it behind. the seal is not doing its job. Parts of the seal are loose and releasing cold air. to me, this is an efficiency nightmare! i want to buy a new fridge...but brett says we can't. so...i just stuff a small kleenex where the seal is loose hoping that helps the problem. so, every time you open the door the kleenex falls to the floor. thinking about this now, sitting here, makes me laugh. like, what good is a kleenex going to do? yet, somehow i know that i won't stop putting the kleenex there. and that's not all i do. i've also hung a large blanket in front of a door in our upstairs hall. i love the door. it's old, wooden, and has a nice single paned window. that's the efficiency problem. the area around the door is so cold and drafty. thus the big blanket. i personally believe that this has helped the draft problem immensely, better than a kleenex i'm sure...but still, perhaps a little bit freakish.
i've only been in the house a total of three days. i'm sure that there will be more kleenexes to stuff somewhere. i'm slowly sniffing out all of the drafts...or at least walking past them. feel free to stop by sometime. there will always be a kleenex handy for YOU.
so anyway, since moving in i have found that i am tirelessly trying to find ways to save energy in the house. there are the obvious things such as turning off lights and keeping the heat down to a cool 63-64 degrees, only when we're home. but, then there are these freakish ways that i think are starting to scare brett. for example, the refrigerator that was left in the house is probably 100 years old. there is a reason the people left it behind. the seal is not doing its job. Parts of the seal are loose and releasing cold air. to me, this is an efficiency nightmare! i want to buy a new fridge...but brett says we can't. so...i just stuff a small kleenex where the seal is loose hoping that helps the problem. so, every time you open the door the kleenex falls to the floor. thinking about this now, sitting here, makes me laugh. like, what good is a kleenex going to do? yet, somehow i know that i won't stop putting the kleenex there. and that's not all i do. i've also hung a large blanket in front of a door in our upstairs hall. i love the door. it's old, wooden, and has a nice single paned window. that's the efficiency problem. the area around the door is so cold and drafty. thus the big blanket. i personally believe that this has helped the draft problem immensely, better than a kleenex i'm sure...but still, perhaps a little bit freakish.
i've only been in the house a total of three days. i'm sure that there will be more kleenexes to stuff somewhere. i'm slowly sniffing out all of the drafts...or at least walking past them. feel free to stop by sometime. there will always be a kleenex handy for YOU.
posted by SN at 9:13 AM
3 Comments:
Ahhh...this is a conflict I know well. Janna and I do this all the time. By the by, with the fridge, if Brett is not willing to by a new one, which isn't really that expensive, you could probably get a new seal at Lowe's. However, the energy you're going to save over the course of the next two years (at about $10-$20 a month), will almost pay for the new fridge, if you get a cheap one.
I go with 71717666, which i think is your mom. Love your old fridge. Love your kleenex. Maybe you could design a special apparatus that would keep that crazy kleenex in place. You could even send me some digital photos of the problem. I will get right on it. No use wasting the already present present of a fridge. Save the dollars and one day rejoice and remember when you move your fridge on to fridge heaven.
Who the heck is Lucretius? I saw "Janna" in the comment and assumed it was MY husband. Is it possible someone else could be graced with "Janna" with 2 n's?
Get a new seal for 2 bucks and use the kleenex for times of "in SICKNESS and in health."
Janna with 2 n's
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