I know that many of us do our level best to make sure that our household budgets are met.
This is definitely the case in our house.
The last couple of years have been particularly trying when it comes to the household budget for us. The pandemic sent my wife and I home from the zone controlled HVAC of our offices. We had to work from the safety and security of the air conditioning in our house. But that also came with a big pay cut for my wife and no bonus structure for me. Cumulatively, that was just about 25 percent of our income. That’s a chunk of change. We did everything we could do to cut costs. The summer of 2020 was really warm in our house as we targeted HVAC cooling costs in our savings strategy. Actually, that really paid off as we were able to save a bunch of money on the air conditioning. It certainly helped us out as we saved all the money we could. However, just at the peak of summer heating, there was something off with the HVAC cooling. The HVAC equipment was still running but it was not right and it wasn’t cooling as it should. Initially, I thought perhaps that I could diagnose and fix the issue on my own with the help of the internet. Thankfully, my wife stopped that quick. She reminded me that our HVAC equipment was too expensive and essential for me to be fooling around with it. I listened and we called the HVAC company for help.