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5 Cheap And Easy Ways To Keep Your Home Warm This Winter

There are some really nice things that come with the fall and winter season. The leaves turn pretty colors. There are all kinds of nice cold weather fashion. Football season is in full swing. However, if there is one thing that we all tend to frown about, it’s the increase in our energy bills as we all strive to keep our homes and bodies warm.

If you would like your electricity bill to be a bit lower this winter, we have five cheap and easy tips for you to do just that. This way, you can enjoy all that comes with the cold without having to spend an arm and a leg to stay warm in the process.

Don’t turn up your thermostat. Here’s something that just may surprise you. Did you know that you can set your thermostat at around 68 degrees and that’s enough to keep you warm and comfortable? Not only that, but it can cause your energy bills to drop by as much as five percent if you do.

July 5, 2013

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Should I Buy Winter Tires This Year?

My husband and I are considering whether or not to buy winter tires this year for our car. In the past, we purchased good quality winter tires and rims and hoped that they would last us for several winters. Unfortunately, I got into a car accident and our insurance company decided to write the car off. So, needless to say, our nearly brand new winter tires were now useless to us. Of course, we could have looked for another car that was the same make and model and still be able to use the old tires. We opted not to do that, and instead we sold the tires and rims, getting at least a small amount of the money back that we paid for them.

Now that we have a different car, we are seriously debating on whether or not we should buy winter tires again. We know that the winter tires we want would cost us approximately $1000.00. If we buy them, we know it will likely be safer to drive in the winter. At the same time, the car we bought has relatively new all-season tires on it right now and the tread is still quite good. There’s really no way to predict how bad the roads will get this winter. Some years the roads are always terrible, and some years they are almost always great, so it’s really impossible to know for sure what winter will bring.

November 9, 2012