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Turn off lights when you leave a room
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Open windows at night and close windows
before the heat builds in the morning to take maximun advantage of naturally
cool air in the summer
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Close blinds at night to keep cold air
blocked against the window in the winter
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Keep the furnace filters clean
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Keep a fire going to offset the costs of
running the furnace in the winter
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Keep your dryer filter clean
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Give your clothes dryer a rest by hanging
clothes out to air dry on warm days
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Try to minimize small loads of laundry
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Buy cleaning solution in concentrate and
mix your own dilution or make your own cleaners
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Save to buy good tools that enable you to
get maximum use from your food storage: digital pressure cooker, tortilla
press, dehydrator, grinder, bread mixer, good blender, etc. Good tools pay for
themselves over time.
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Grow a garden
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Can lots of food from your garden
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Have winter storage bins to store
potatoes, carrots and apples from your garden through the winter
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Eat out rarely
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Take shorter showers
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Do multiple errands at one time to save
on gas
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Take extra services off your phone line
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Don’t carry any debt so there is no
interest to pay
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Eat right and exercise to stay healthy
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Partially self insure by having a higher
deductible on insurance so premiums are lower
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Save in a health account to cover extra
medical costs
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Spend less than you make every month
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Start and keep up with savings accounts
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