I could tell my friend was long overdue for a new heater the first time I stepped foot in their house.
It was sort of like stepping into a refrigerator is how I would describe it.
When I asked where the heck her furnace is, she told me that her furnace stopped working years ago. Years ago, in a climate where it is not uncommon for it to drop below freezing. I’m honestly wondering how the heck she hasn’t froze to death yet. I love my furnace and I can’t imagine not having one. So of course my next best step was to convince her to get a new heating unit. She seemed hesitant, and I could make a pretty good guess as to why. My friend has always been the penny pincher type, the type who always has a bunch of coupons or other savings, and only buys things if they’re on sale. So to get an entire new heating unit was going to be incredibly expensive, and considering she thinks $20 as being expensive, I can’t imagine what she must think of the cost of a new heater. I kept telling her that she really needs a new heating device, that she could literally freeze in this kind of weather if we even get a blizzard or something else like that, but I could tell that was not getting her attention. I then looked around a bit myself, and found a HVAC company that happened to be having a sale on furnaces and furnace installation, and hope that maybe she gets the hint and gets a new one already.