15 Winter Home Tricks So Good They Feel Illegal

📕 The Home Savings Manual — 79 ways to stop overpaying for your own house: https://brendacarver.com/ Go stand by your front door tonight after dark, in your socks, for one minute. Feel that cold air moving across your feet? That's your furnace money walking out of the house. Every winter folks feel cold and turn the dial up, and nobody asks where the heat's going. Your furnace is making plenty of it. You're just not keeping it. Our grandmothers kept a house warm with what was in the junk drawer and the linen closet. In this one I'll walk you through 15 winter home tricks so good they feel illegal: 🕯️ The one-candle leak hunt, the rolled towel under the door, bubble wrap on the glass, and rope caulk and film for old windows 🪟 Working your curtains like your grandmother did, foam behind the outlets, and flipping your ceiling fan the right way 🔥 Closing the chimney, using the oven twice, putting water in the air, and turning down the water heater 🧦 The furnace filter (and the vent advice you should ignore), rugs on cold floors, and getting the heat out from behind the furniture …and number one, the trick that cuts the biggest chunk off your heating bill and really ought to be against the rules. Not one thing on this list came from the winter aisle at the hardware store. Keep the heat you already paid for, and keep your money right where it belongs. If saving money and a warm house sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 How old is your house, and where's the worst draft in it? Tell me down in the comments. #frugalliving #savemoney #winterhome #heatingbill #draftproofing #wintertips #energysaving #homemaking #householdtips