Summer had barely begun when my air conditioning unit went on the fritz.
The HVAC technician told me I needed a new air conditioning unit.
I knew I couldn’t afford a new central air conditioning unit, and I was upfront and honest with them. I wanted to wait until fall, and hopefully purchase a central air conditioning unit at that point. I knew that life without air conditioning would not be fun, but I didn’t have a choice. When mom and dad came over to visit, dad asked where the air-conditioning was and I explained the situation. He told mom he forgot something, and left mom there to talk to me while he went back home. An hour later, dad was back, and he had a window air conditioning unit with him. He told me that even if I couldn’t have central air conditioning throughout the entire house, at least I could get some decent sleep with a window air conditioning unit. The window AC unit used little energy, even though I was leaving my bedroom door open to help cool the living room and kitchen. I was glad I had purchased a smaller home when I purchased this one. If I had anything bigger, that one window air conditioning unit would not have worked. By the end of summer, I was considering buying another window air conditioning unit for the living room/kitchen area. I saved a lot of money on the energy bill, and I also had air conditioning that was comparable to what I had with the central AC unit.