{"id":735,"date":"2008-11-18T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/saving-heating-costs-out-of-the-closet\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"saving-heating-costs-out-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/saving-heating-costs-out-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Heating Costs: Out of the Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/men-with-money1.jpg\">I&#8217;ve been keeping my thermostat low.  63 degrees low while I am at work and in the evenings.  I am getting used to it.  But I really haven&#8217;t been living at 63 since there has been enough sunlight during the day to keep my house at around 68 &#8211; 72.<\/p>\n<p>But it is getting colder now.  40s in Virginia is cold.  So I actually did spend last night at 63 degrees.  <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>I could not get up in the morning and get ready at 63.  So I cranked the heat up to 68.  Heat started pouring forth from the registers and it started to feel livable. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, there I am getting ready for work, open up my bedroom closet and it was cold in there.  I wasn&#8217;t heating the closet.  The square feet I was heating was smaller than it could have been. The smaller the area one heats, everything else being equal, the easier and cheaper it is to heat. <\/p>\n<p>So now I am going to  keep my closet door closed (which is really a good idea since that is where I am hiding Christmas presents.)<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping my thermostat low. 63 degrees low while I am at work and in the evenings. I am getting used to it. But I really haven&#8217;t been living at 63 since there has been enough sunlight during the day to keep my house at around 68 &#8211; 72. But it is getting colder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}