Nothing's free...

Who says nothing's free?

Did you know that all the money you spend at a tanning salon can be saved just by taking in a few rays of the sun? That's right, the sun can actually give you a tan. I know what you're thinking, "That'll kill me in about two seconds with it's cancer death rays!" Rest assured, there are no cancer death rays eminating from the sun. What comes from the sun is merely the same rays that the tanning bed shines at you but at a much cheaper rate. The only draw back is that you can't use it at night. So I guess for all of you night tanners, suck it up and spend some time in the sun. A really easy way to do this is merely park a little farther from the mall and walk in the sun. A little goes a long way.

Mirror mirror on the roof...

Ok, so mirrors won't tell me I'm the fairest of them all. That's probably because they aren't human because then, well they probably still wouldn't.
What they have done for me is keep my house like five degrees cooler. Plug that into your calculators and that's a whole bunch of savings on my cooling bill.
I currently have eight mirrors on the roof right at the top so the rain doesn't do a lot of collecting between them and the shingles. They're also raised up about half and inch with ... well I'm really not sure what it is but there's no way I can get it off so it's staying there.

I plan to add six to eight more on another part of the roof to maximize the cooling in the back of the house where it gets the hottest.