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Savings!!!!!!!!!!

Will_5
Will_5 Member Posts: 85
Just needed somewhere to vent! There are no worse words to hear to hear from your spouse at the end of a hard day than " You wouldn't believe how much I saved at the sale I was at today " It certainly does not help matters when you ask if you can have some of that cash cause your a little short yourself!! Just had to walk away from that one..

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  • Will_5
    Will_5 Member Posts: 85
    Simple Economics

  • Plumbob
    Plumbob Member Posts: 183


    Same with buying a condensing boiler. You have to spend a lot to save a little.
  • ALH_4
    ALH_4 Member Posts: 1,790
    That all depends

    Since the savings are generally seen as a fraction of the total used, when you have greater heat loss you save more by increasing efficiency. Increasing the combustion efficiency by 10% is much better than decreasing the heat loss by 10%. So in a retrofit application, if the choice is between new windows or a new boiler, the new boiler may have a much better ROI than the windows. My units are a little messy in the calculations.

    -Andrew
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    John....

    Fred Flinstone always was a bit miffed after hearing That from is sweet darling wife*~/:)

    i think it works like this,a girlfriend Thinks you have money,a woman knows how much you have:) and a wife Knows He Better Not! have any money :)

    in China there is a saying, that a man "shouldnt have more than 3 dollars" :) i hope that helps:)
  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    So I guess

    I shouldn't take that cruise since we will fall off the end of the earth???

    I dub thee "Time Traveler" QT.

    Tell us what it is like in 1932.

    Mark H

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  • Brad White_48
    Brad White_48 Member Posts: 18
    In China

    a man shouldn't have more than a whole year's pay?

    :^)>
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    My mom would come home and say

    "Look how much I saved us I got this for thirty percent off ".

    My Dad would then say " Think how much you would have saved us if you had'nt bought it !"

    Dad was a smart man.

    Scott

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  • Brad White_48
    Brad White_48 Member Posts: 18
    Dad could have been

    a Dead Man!

    :)
  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Men are the Hunters

    Women are the gatherers. It has been that way since caveman times. When I go shopping, I go with an object in mind I want to buy. I hunt for that object with a single minded purpose. When I find it I have a vague impulse to throw a spear through it. For I am Caveman hunting. My wife is a modern cave woman wandering the fields of Target and Kohl's. Instead of gathering nuts, berries and herbs, she browses, compares, she gathers information and marks prices and locations in her head. She accumulates incredible information. She is a gatherer. If they had a competitive shopping realty show, my wife would take home the million dollar prize. I don't claim to understand it. I'm with Scott's Dad mostly, but I have come to admire it. WW

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  • Tony_23
    Tony_23 Member Posts: 1,033
    My mistake

    Was to say, " Good, now we won't need that for TWO lifetimes."



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  • Will_5
    Will_5 Member Posts: 85


    My point exactly Scott!!
  • Joannie_11
    Joannie_11 Member Posts: 45
    HEY!

    You could save even MORE money if you got some of that free tubing that Mark and Wirsbo are giving out!
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