{"id":60,"date":"2011-06-20T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-11-07T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:52:58","slug":"2008jan18-how-to-become-more-self-relient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/60","title":{"rendered":"2008JAN18 &#8211; How to become more self relient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quick note before we begin: over the next few days \/ weeks, I&#8217;ll be posting old posts recovered from my previous website&#8217;s blog.\u00a0 I am doing this at my daughter&#8217;s request; as she enjoyed some of these posts. You&#8217;ll know it is an old post by the date in the title line, that is the date of the original post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my pursuit of happiness; or at least financial freedom. I have found that the   costs associated with home ownership (not including the mortgage) can be   reduced. The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.builditsolar.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Build it Solar<\/span><\/a>; a site for do-it-your selfers, have put   together a real nice website; full of information. I have found a lot of good   ideas to help reduce my energy costs. A lot of what they have is common sense   explained for simple folks (like me!). Check out their <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.builditsolar.com\/References\/Half\/Planning.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Half Plan<\/span><\/a> <\/span> for reducing cost and increasing your home&#8217;s efficiency. This is   the list I&#8217;m working down. So what have I done? Let me tell you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installed a storm door on my front door (faces   northerly).<\/li>\n<li>When we remodeled; we used only high efficiency appliances and installed compact fluorescent lights.<\/li>\n<li>Insulated my outlets and installed removable plastic coverings on   my northerly facing windows in winter.<\/li>\n<li>Put some lights   on a timer; so they aren&#8217;t on all night.<\/li>\n<li>Also, we are trying to get better   about turning lights off when not in use. I like a bright house &#8211; so this has   been tough for me.<\/li>\n<li>Purchased a Kil-a-watt meter. Still   having trouble figuring out how to use it, so if you know; fire off an email   to me. I&#8217;d like to measure my electricy usage on stuff that isn&#8217;t always   on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I highly encourage anyone that is trying to become   more self efficient to check out their website, I am going to continue   working on my &#8220;half&#8221; plan as finances afford. FYI: There is also a   tutorial on how to install solar shingles, which will be very helpful to me   when I have to replace my roofing shingles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick note before we begin: over the next few days \/ weeks, I&#8217;ll be posting old posts recovered from my previous website&#8217;s blog.\u00a0 I am doing this at my daughter&#8217;s request; as she enjoyed some of these posts. You&#8217;ll know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/60\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":891,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/891","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; April","author":"DR D","date":"March 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As you all know; I like to travel, a lot!\u00a0 I was thinking about purchasing an RV when I retire (RV or Timeshare; that is the question), but after having a discussion with my father, thought better of that idea.\u00a0 He proposed the idea that since I like timesharing; why\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Timeshares&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Timeshares","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/travel\/timeshare"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1016,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1016","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":1},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; July","author":"DR D","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The end of June we made a switch. 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