It’s certainly not good for me to be the bad girl in any single way.
- I don’t ever like making people recognize they are bad or hurt feelings.
However, there are times in life and suppliers where you have to hold individuals accountable for their actions over time. And this is just an area of life. I think there are times where our feelings get hurt because I’m regularly checked by others. It is what it is. However this past summer, I legitimately ruffled some delicate feathers in our house with the HVAC. I told everyone in the Springtime that I was definitely going to take a hard line on the HVAC costs this year. Maybe they didn’t know I was being for real or Dad was just bluffing. But they soon realized that I was legitimately serious with that statement. This was because the two of us have spent way too much money over stupidly cooling our house during the summer. The two of us live in a region where the daily heat is the big weather concern. The HVAC cooling is for nearly 8 months of the year – I mean, that long, at least. But it’s the 4 months during the peak of heat season that can wreck a single budget. Well, that just wasn’t going to happen last summer. And I did it by making absolutely sure the two of us stuck to the HVAC setting strategy of keeping the house set at no more than 15 degrees cooler than outside. I even went to the lengths of programming the indoor air temperature control and locking out any manual fluctuations. There were some super hurt feelings and some whining. But I saved so much money that I was able to add some extra special bonuses to the family vacation this year.