Get Your Home Ready for Winter — 12 Cheap Things to Buy Now

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ You remember last January's heating bill. The mistake wasn't the bill, it was forgetting about it come spring. Right now everything that keeps a house warm is sitting on the shelf, cheap, with nobody fighting over it, and most of it costs under ten dollars. Wait for the first hard freeze and you'll pay more, if it's there at all. Our grandmothers buttoned the house up every fall with small, cheap things, and never paid to heat the yard. In this one I'll walk you through 12 cheap things to buy now to get your home ready for winter: 🌬️ Furnace filters, outlet gaskets, rope caulk and window plastic that stop the drafts you can feel 🚪 A door sweep, foam tape, and covers for the faucet and the pipes so nothing splits in January 🧂 Ice melt, a lights-out box, a carbon monoxide alarm and a hot water bottle for the day winter arrives 🔦 The six-dollar can of foam for the hidden holes that turn your whole house into a chimney …and why nobody makes money telling you about a four-dollar fix. Do these this fall and you'll be warmer all winter for about what one heating bill costs. A little know-how keeps your family warm and your money right where it belongs. If saving money and running a snug, thrifty home sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 Could you see light around your front door tonight? Tell me down in the comments. #winterprep #frugalliving #savemoney #homemaintenance #energysaving #heatingbill #homemaking #householdtips #thrifty