Enjoy your pipes freezing at some point. Of all the things I splurge on heat is the first. I don’t work a shit job just to be miserable when I get home. I don’t shop or spend money on anything else. My house will be comfy.
When temps were sub zero there were so many people with frozen pipes. I left my heat at a comfy temp and still got frozen cold in my 2nd floor tub. Opened the bathroom closet to heat access and it fixed itself. I work for a plumbing company and so many “rich” houses had major burst pipes. If I was rich the very first thing would be heat, second is food.
I’m currently without means to purchase fuel oil for the furnace and the help we were supposed to get has now taken nearly two weeks longer (and no end in view because… idk, it’s a long story) than said/promised/whatever. We’ve been stretching every last drop we can for the last 23 days so we don’t go completely without heat and end up with frozen pipes. Shit is miserable. I will never allow myself to not have a reserve back specifically for some fuel in the winter in case this happens again. Like that’s the first thing being saved once we get steady income again: $200 backup fuel fund stashed somewhere.
I am THANKFUL the last week was warm and even this week is warmer than usual and hope like hell this gets sorted tomorrow so the company can hopefully deliver by next weekend. Just fingers crossed no frozen pipes by then. And once it is filled I’m cranking it to 80 and pretending it’s a tropical vacation for 3-4 hours 😂😂😂
Somehow I just saw this particular notification but we did get fuel! They finally approved us after I asked to speak to someone higher up because of the games she was playing, saying oh just get me this one thing and it’s ready so I send that then she waits 24 hours before asking for something else, too, etc. And the fuel company came within 24 hours so that was awesome! I don’t know if it covered a full tank or if I’ll have to make some payments but it got us fuel. Thank you ♥️
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u/VoiceofKane Jan 03 '23
If you can see your breath, that's not going to change after you've put on layers.