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This winter, many families are feeling the double pinch of financial worries and high heating costs, and some are being forced to choose between warming their home or filling the gas tank. Luckily, there's an easy way to rediscover what our parents and grandparents did to save money, while reducing our carbon footprint at the same time: draft snakes.
For a tidier look, you can buy ready-made draft snakes (here's a clever Wizard of Oz one). Or better yet, get crafty and make your own from scraps, old neckties, or worn denim, or other materials you can recycle from around the house. Fill it with dried beans or sand. Get the kids involved and decorate it with googly eyes, felt tongues, and so on. The whole family can learn about saving energy.
Dodge the draft, without having to hotfoot it all the way to Canada, by stuffing fabric snakes into crevices where the chill can nip in and sneakily drive up heating costs. You can whip up your own by sewing an 8x42-inch piece of tightly woven fabric into a tube, and then stuffing it with cotton or wool batting, insulation foam, fabric scraps, kitty litter, sand, buckwheat kernels, or dried pine needles.
Dodge the draft, without having to hotfoot it all the way to Canada, by stuffing fabric snakes into crevices where the chill can nip in and sneakily drive up heating costs. You can whip up your own by sewing an 8x42-inch piece of tightly woven fabric into a tube, and then stuffing it with cotton or wool batting, insulation foam, fabric scraps, kitty litter, sand, buckwheat kernels, or dried pine needles.
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