good thread, meant to start one myself..

my total bill was about $150 for December.. 1500 SF although i haven't heated the super cold living room of mine much, working on drafts and such.. this year i decided to use electricity and my fireplace to heat the house with.. i hardly used the gas and it was $70.. a friend of mine heated a little less square footage and it cost him $250.. he does have more windows then i do..

i am rather happy with the result as it would have been easily over $300 if i just used my gas furnace alone.. electric is way cheaper right now, as it was back in the early 1970s......

my house is about 100 y/o and has no insulation in the walls (siding, studs, t&g interior walls covered with plaster).. i will add a bit to the ceilings sometime this winter still..

seems that adding "blanket" to the window bottoms and middle has helped tremendously.. any idea how one could insulate the window weights areas without impeding the movement of the weights? "blanket" = towels and other insulation.. i am in the process of cutting special covers for the middles out of rigid insulation