I have been trying to save as much money as possible for the past couple of years, and I have cut out some pretty crazy things. I stopped using a washer and dryer as well as air conditioning to try and help save as much money as possible on my electric bill. I sold like seventy percent of the things in my house. I am doing it all to try and save up enough money to start building my dream house. My friends think that I am crazy for getting rid of so many things, but I would rather start from scratch anyways. I have about half of the money that I need saved up, and I think I will be able to get the second half of the money much quicker than I got the first. I actually had to start using air conditioning again because of some health issues. It got so hot in my house that I actually had a heat stroke. I could not believe it. I know that people all over the world live without air conditioning in very hot climates, but I guess my body was not ready for such a drastic change. I am going to try to slowly lean myself off of the air conditioning this time. We will see what happens. It has cooled down a little bit here, and soon winter will be upon us. Of course, it is still in the sixties during the winter months, but that is much more manageable than one hundred degrees. I will definitely be more careful this time so that I do not cause myself to have a heat stroke again.