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Old 12-13-11, 11:38 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by MN Renovator View Post
  • His house still costs $1000 a year to heat which is on the same gas rate structure but smaller than my house and I pay roughly a third of that.
  • I showed him how little I spent on improving my house and how the insulation and air sealing materials would cost him less than his January heating bill, he can't be bothered by it.
  • ...yet still complains every winter about the heating costs and then gets defensive when you tell him it would be easy to seal up the place and fix the house to even half that usage.
You bring up an interesting point.

Some people are embarrassed by their stupidity, other people are proud of it.

Sometimes you've just got to let them go...

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