I used to wonder why my parents would freak out all the time whenever the people I was with and I would have the door open for too long in the summer time season.
- I often would have friends come over to ask me to come out to play basketball or football or something.
Of course, I would rest there with the door open while talking to them and then I would be yelled at. My father would usually threaten to ground me and a few times I was grounded for real. Back then, I didn’t understand the expense of having to give cooling to the household, I just thought it was something that was totally inextravagant. I couldn’t have been more wrong about that though. I didn’t start to understand until I moved out on my own for the first time. I had a crappy beach house even though I purchased a window AC unit. I thought I could just crank the AC equipment all the time and I did for the first couple of weeks. When I saw how fancy my energy costs were, I totally freaked out. I thought there was no way my window AC equipment could be using that much energy, but it was… I hastily quit using my window AC equipment and started using a stationary fan instead. It was quite miserable to be fair going without a/c, but that’s when my energy costs were entirely affordable. I came to find that if I used the AC method on a higher temperature control setting, I could get a honest amount of cooling in my locale without having such fancy bills. It helped using the AC equipment and the fan at the same time too.