[wintertime]

Drop your land line phone. Use only cell phone. For long distance phone calls use Skype through your computer.

Use a kerosien heater and heat only the rooms that you are currently occupying.

Visit a third world country and see how they do it.

[RockinRight]

We do have a fireplace. For the phone thing, I did reduce my cell minutes when I discovered I wasn’t using them all.

We have a landline phone w/unlimited long distance bundled w/our TV and Internet, and it’s cheaper to keep all three than two of three, so we leave it alone.

[Mygirlsmom]

Visit a third world country and see how they do it.

Do you really want that for our country? The American ideal is to bring modernization to the third world, not the other way around.

[informavoracious]

Does this mean using your cell phone for your internet connection? If you have DSL, you have a land line, no? I am thinking of goi the other old fashioned way - land ne only. Call every 6 months to ‘drop’ it, and you’ll find they’ll practically pay you to keep it.

[Eaker]

Visit a third world country and see how they do it.

So we as Americans have worked this hard to live like savages eating stray dogs while crapping on the floor of a mud hut?

This suggestion is nuts.

[Allegra]

Visit a third world country and see how they do it.

I've lived in a thrid world country for the past five years and I will NOT emulate that way of life on my own turf in my own country.

I refuse to cave in to any Marxist dictatorship that some rogue government tries to force on my great nation.

The day I succumb to third-world living will be the day they plant me six feet under. And I won't go there without a fight.

[Albion Wilde]

Use a kerosien heater and heat only the rooms that you are currently occupying.

A friend tried this and got a bad case of mold in an unheated basement room that cost more to repair than heating it would have. So only do this for upstairs rooms that you are sure are leak-free.

[Gondring]

Visit a third world country and see how they do it.

Bingo.

[Albion Wilde]

Use a kerosien heater and heat only the rooms that you are currently occupying.

Yep, I tried that and the cold rooms I rarely use got damp and moldy.