Frugal Living: Living Devoid Of Air Conditioning In The Summer?

By Author: Jennifer McClelland
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I of late read an article about saving money throughout the summer by not turning on your air conditioner. While I will probably not even try this one, I wanted to share it with some of you guys to see if any of you are courageous enough to attempt it.

The tale from the article is that the author had not used the air conditioner in two summers and it was pretty easy to adjust to the change.

The tips are to turn off the a/c (obviously), when you are spending time outside, you are doing so in the shade, do not even turn on the air conditioner in the automobile, and avoid places that have air conditioners so that you will not throw off all the adjusting your body has completed. The writer says that your body will adjust to a certain level of heat and will do whatever it can to keep you cooled as long as you are drinking plenty of liquids and doing other things to keep yourself cool.

Stay indoors throughout the warmest part of the day, but stay out in the shade is one of the tips I did not comprehend at first, then the article went on to say that there are ways to keep your house cooler in the day as long as ...
... specific measures are taken at night to help your home out the subsequent day. The author suggests getting up in the morning and closing all the windows and doors and to cover up them with a heavy shade or black out drape.

Another tip to keeping the house cool is to use less electricity from inside appliances as possible. I will say, in the summer I try to do laundry at night and cook with a toaster oven to cook when I can to help keep the house cool. This writer goes as far as to say do not dry your clothes in the dryer at all, cook outside on the grill, and use ceiling fans in a counter clockwise direction.

At the end of the day, open all the windows to allow in cooler air. I would have a major problem doing this. Where I live, there are too many different kinds of insects that can get into my home from the windows, even the windows with screens on them.

The writer of the article claims that they were able to save between $60 and $150 per month on their electric bill. Like I said, that is a big decrease in the cost of electricity, but I do not for myself think I could do it for an entire summer. Good luck to anyone that may desire to try though!
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