Suddenly Frugal Blog

I knew this was coming, but I just didn’t expect it so soon. What, you ask, has got me all hot and bothered? Why it’s my home heating oil bill, the first of which arrived in my mailbox yesterday, for the 2008-2009 heating season. It’s August; oil deliveries don’t start until late October. Yet today [...]

Last week we received our last oil bill for the winter season. Despite our having locked in at a respectable per-gallon rate for oil a year ago, we ended up spending more on oil than I’d anticipated–this despite our heat-cutting measures with keeping the thermostat lower and what not. After doing some snooping around in [...]