Reply #6: Very well said as was your other very similar version... [View All]

[WePurrsevere]

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My daughter, who is expecting in the Spring, and her SO may come stay here for the Winter because of heating costs. She'll get one delivery of heating oil from NYS's HEAP ($400. max), and then since she hasn't been able to find a job in this crappy economy and he was only able to find a minimum wage job, they'll probably be screwed if they stay in her/our house down there. So they're thinking of turning the furnace to just above freezing, wrapping the pipes, closing up house and coming here with all their furkids.

With us being on SSD it's not that we're a whole lot better off but we scrap by and we'll hopefully have 8 cords of cut and split wood delivered ($40. a cord) in a couple of weeks and be able to add a few gallons of kerosene to the tank a month** for night use and backup if we go out so we'll manage I think/hope... sadly I wonder how others less fortunate will make it. :(

(**we have a dual furnace)