5 Ways to Save Money on Lighting Your Home
Hi Folks,
Have you started implementing any of the energy saving tips on heating and cooling your home I shared in my last post. All those dollars you save could pay for those Christmas presents you’re going to buy this year and next. 
I have five more energy saving tips for you today. These are on lighting your home and they are so simple, so effective and so easy to do.
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15 Ways to Save On Heating And Cooling Costs
Hi Folks,
I have some great energy saving tips for you that I’ll post over the next few days. Put just a few of these to use and you’ll save a bundle on your electric bill each year.
Want to see how much you are saving? Make a list of your electric bills from over the past year (two years is better, if you still have the bills). List them down a sheet of paper: Month, killowatts used, dollar amount of the bill. Then each month post this same information from your new bill to your list opposite the same month from the previous year. Now you can see the difference between last years usage and this.
I have a friend that changed out all of his incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights (CFL). He is saving several dollars a month from implementing just this one energy saving step.
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Budget Travel Bargains
Hi Folks,
Well, all the young people will be headed back to school in a few days leaving more space on the highways for us older folks . Yippee. I just love to travel after the kids have gone back to school. It’s still warm, the tourist places are still open, and it’s not crowded.
Which brings up a question - have you saved enough money for a late summer trip?
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Smart household savings start in the laundry room
Hi Folks,
We just returned from a great trip to Boone, NC, with my senior’s group.
We toured Samaritans Purse, http://www.samaritanspurse.org/, ate a very special meal at Dan’l Boone Inn, http://www.danlbooneinn.com/, (a real feast served country style), and took in one of the country’s finest outdoor dramas, Horne In The West. We also visited the original Mast General Store, http://www.mastgeneralstore.com/valle_crucis.cfm, (established in 1883) in Valle Crucis, NC.
For a wonderful and inexpensive vacation (especially if you travel with a group) I recommend Boone, NC and North Carolina’s High Country.
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Retirees Living on Social Security
Hi Folks,
I receive more visitors to this blog from people searching the keywords “Living on Social Security” than any other keyword. This surely tells us that many retirees are struggling to make ends meet.
The following article by Samantha Asher discusses living on Social Security. If you have not retired, listen to her advice. If you are retired and having difficulty making your money stretch to the end of the month we will explore ways of making it go farther and ways of adding to it in future posts.
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Categories: RETIREMENT LIVING, THRIFTY SENIORS Tags: frugal retirement, living on social security
