Thrifty Thursday

Thrifty sounds good, doesn't it? People always try to say I'm thrifty or frugal, I always tell them "just say it already, I'm cheap!" What got me thinking of it just now was the temperature in here tonight, it's 63.1!!! I only have the heat set at 60 right now, but since it was a sunny day today, my solar collectors(painted tinfoil) brought it up an extra 3 degrees today. You can't beat that with a stick, well you could, but it would rip the tin foil :) This has been a very cold winter and on the sunny days the solar collectors have made a difference in the house temp, not a drastic one, but anything helps. I won't hesitate to do it again next year, but would like to try to come up with a way to make some external ones that will collect more of the southern sun. If it ever warms up here I can take all my painted tin foil down and take it to the recyclers, it may have only paid $.15 a lb last time I was there, but it's better then nothing. Have any money saving ideas you would like to share?

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Have a blessed day!!!
Michelle