25 Old-Fashioned Winter Tricks Seniors Living Alone Use to Stay Warm and Save Up to $200

Old fashioned tips for a warm house this winter, written for seniors who live alone or with a partner. Here are 25 winter tricks, laid out as one walk around your own house: a thermometer by your chair, a knit hat in the living room, a tissue held at the window, a pipe wrapped in the basement, and a phone call that could help with the heating bill. Ten of them cost nothing, and together they can take up to $200 off a winter of heating, depending on what your house runs on. Subscribe here for more old fashioned tips:    / @sarahsoldfashionedtips   Facts, names and amounts in this video were checked before publishing. The savings are possible amounts, not promises, and they depend on your house and on what you heat with. The voice and the pictures are AI-made, and every picture carries a small "AI illustration" tag. Safety first. Keep your home at 68°F or warmer, because a house at 60 to 65°F can be risky for older adults. Never heat a home with a gas oven or a gas range. Put a carbon monoxide alarm on every level and outside the rooms where you sleep, test it once a month, and if it sounds, get outside first and then call 911. A clay pot over candles does not heat a room, so please do not try it. Keep a space heater at least three feet from anything that can burn, and plug it straight into the wall, not into an extension cord. Ask someone to help with ladders, attic work and the water heater, and do not stand on a chair. Help paying for heat: the National Energy Assistance Referral line is 1-866-674-6327, weekdays from 9 am to 7 pm Eastern. The website is energyhelp.us. They point you to the office near you and tell you how to apply, and applying does not cost a fee. If anyone asks you to pay for this help, hang up. Chapters: 0:00 The envelope on the kitchen table 0:55 The chair and the clothes (tricks 1 to 3) 4:02 Doors, windows and drafts (tricks 4 to 7) 8:22 Hot water and the clay pot (tricks 8 to 12) 13:30 The kitchen for one (tricks 13 to 18) 18:19 The laundry room and the yard (tricks 19 to 22) 21:11 Help you don't have to do alone (tricks 23 and 24) 23:23 The phone call about heating help (trick 25) You know that cold spot by the back door, the one you walk past every day? This video goes around the house one room at a time, with the amounts, the money and the one thing to watch out for in each trick. Most of them take an afternoon at the most, and some take a single finger on a faucet. What you'll take away: 25 winter tricks for your chair, windows, doors, water heater, kitchen, laundry room and yard A way to work out your own savings from last winter's bills Ten tricks that cost nothing at all Which jobs to hand to a plumber or a handy neighbor The phone number to call about help with your heating bill Which one are you trying first, sealing up the back door or making that phone call? Tell me in the comments, and tell me which town you're watching from. I read every comment.