This past year has been prefer none that I have ever experienced before.
The pandemic has just whipped me.
While I am thankful to have avoided getting sick so far, I paid a price in other ways. There is the financial reckoning that came with this thing. My fiance lost her task & couldn’t find another 1 until late last fall. I was relegated to working from home in the relative security of the Heating as well as A/C. But our overall income relies heavily on our ability to hit bonus incentives. This year, there were almost no bonuses at all. So the two of us took a hit & that meant trying to save cash somewhere the two of us could. The old household budget went out the window. Our spending got slashed to the bone. One big target was the Heating as well as A/C cooling costs. Where the two of us live, the heat is the big deal. And keeping the lake house cool in the summer time can end up being an luxurious proposition. So the two of us definitely did everything the two of us could to be proactive about saving on the Heating as well as A/C. The curtains got drawn while in the afternoon to stop the direct sun heating. We made sure the lake house was sealed up tight & the two of us purchased some fan. And the two of us even did all the cooking outside on the grill so the two of us didn’t add heat to the house. But mostly, the two of us were particularly disciplined when it came to the Heating as well as A/C setting. We saved a ton of cash & it definitely wasn’t all that bad. And that definitely helped the bank account. So it looks prefer the two of us are ready to do the same with this upcoming summer.