Ours is full of antiques-that we use. Even the old cookstoves (one kerosene and one wood) that can be fired up in a power outage, hand drills, kerosene lamps (kerosene is cheaper than batteries in an outage)...We have 2 furnaces, so both floors don't need to have the heat on if not in use, front loading washer, clothes drying racks that hang in the garage when not in use, and clothes line strung in the basement like an earlier posters, cfl bulbs inside and out, water saving shower heads, triple insulated radon windows, many of my and my daughters clothes in the closets are from thrift stores, my 1950's popcorn popper that we still use, by the contents of my freezer and pantry-you can tell we buy in bulk, by the stack of firewood by the door and in the barn, by my newest laptop which is 2001 and the newest PC in the house from 1998 that we still use....by our used homeschool books, by our library book and movie stack, if you look at my desk you will see the paper I print on has already been used on one side, by my coupon book, the leftovers in the fridge and freezer, by my canned goods, by the foil over the south windows in the summer, the garden, my dishrags are what once was bath towels that outlived their life as a bathtowel, the chickens in the yard that we free range to avoid buying feed, the medicines and injectibles in the fridge so we can give the horses and cows the shots ourselves to avoid the vet bill, my husbands tools that show he does our own mechanic work when warrenties allow it.......
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