Winterizing..... :-/

I am sure those of you who have been to our house will roll your eyes at how cheap we are, but in efforts to save some money on our heating bills this winter, we "winterized" our house. Our brilliant ideas included added weather stripping to our doors so that they are air and light tight, and covering our windows off with thick foam-board insulation. Oh and it's sealed off with the ever fashionable duct tape! As you can see, the results really add to the aesthetics of our home. Just kidding. Actually we put the blinds back up where we could, and I put up some curtains to hide the window in our room since the blinds wouldn't fit over the foam. So call us tight wads, but it is amazing how much warmer our house is without turning on the heaters. With the temperature dropping below zero this week, we have been using the heater more often. But here's to lower bills! We all could use some of those.....

Here's Nick with the finished product in our room...


He was pretty excited that he got to use one of his knives to cut the boards!


And here he is with the fabulous mess that dang foam makes ALL over the house! Those little styrofoam pieces float everywhere, and just fly away when you try to catch them with the vacuum!