Every week it gets a little bit colder. Every weekend we find new holes in our rented house that need patching up and/or sealing. This serves two purposes: it keeps the draftiness down to a minimum and prevents access points for small creatures such as a mouse.

The interesting thing is I feel that at some point in the future, out house will be held together by caulk.

Anyway. There are no storm windows for the bathroom and office - something I didn’t notice or realize last winter when the central heating system was on all the time. This year I didn’t feel like doing too much work to seal the window nor did I want to spend money or call the lazy landlord to come and get me some storm windows. So I used the flattened cardboard boxes we picked up at uhaul two years ago for about $0.25/box (they were holiday themed and we got a discount because it wasn’t the holiday season) and taped it to the windows. It is pretty effective. No draft any more as evidenced by a candle flame not flickering.