I really try not to be the type of person who requires a lot of things in life to be happy. When I look around at my friends and family, I get very discouraged by the number of things that they cannot live without. For instance, my mom will absolutely lose her mind if she doesn’t have creamer for her coffee in the morning. I’m sorry, but I consider this to be a pretty high maintenance way to live when a basic grocery item will make or break your entire week. This is one of the reasons that I have been trying to save on money, streamline my life, and live as minimally as possible. My heating, cooling, and air quality control system is definitely one of the more difficult items to live without. I wish that I could shut off my central heating, cooling, and ventilation system and be happy… But that hasn’t worked out so far. In fact, I would consider myself rather obsessed with my thermostat because I love to adjust my indoor air quality control equipment to match the outdoor climate conditions whenever possible. Unfortunately, when I tried to upgrade my thermostat to a smart temperature control device, I found that my indoor air temperature control woes actually got worse. One of the things that completely threw me off was the accidental programming of my dehumidification system. In the middle of winter when the air was already superdry, I definitely did not need extra moisture removed from my indoor air. But because I had vowed to stay away from my thermostat, I didn’t notice the automatic programming of the dehumidifier until I had already spent a fortune on it. So much for saving.