Tuesday October 25, 2005
Quick note: we did end up turning on our heater. I realized I was pulling a “Grandpa E” (maternal Grandpa) and it was more important for Zane to be comfortable than proving some point on ‘how long we can last without the heater”. Zane probably has a low grade fever because he keeps getting dressed, then 10 minutes later he was undressed again, then dressed again. I didn’t want to worry that he was too cold when he was undressed and obviously his clothes were driving him nuts at times.
Grandma spent years being miserable because Grandpa had some unwritten contest going on with his buddies on ‘how low he could keep the heating/cooling bill”. (not limited to that though…he was also a big on just about anything that proved how cheap he could be. One time he bought around 20 tubes of toothpaste because he found a coupon that got them at a really good price. He had dentures. )
What did he ever end up doing with all of that toothpaste? LOL
I have been trying to avoid turning the heat on because of how much its going to cost to heat our house. So instead a bought a couple space heaters for about the same price of a 1 month heating bill, but they work so well that we may last all winter without having to turn the heater on once. And in Ohio, thats a blessing!!! :o)
The toothpaste – I think I ended up with a number of tubes since I was desperately poor at the time and couldn’t afford to be picky (I didn’t really like the brand). My brother got a few too (was in college at the time). I don’t know what happened to the rest of them. His ‘entertainment’ was going to Aldis and the overstock store that had weird odds and ends of things that were either expired, or never caught on (usually with good reason) in the market. He could quote the price of almost everything at Aldis. (ok, I gotta admit, I could too at the time…was important for my budgeting)