Take control of heating costs

Don't you love the advertisements where homeowners talk about saving $40,000 on furnishings they bought from some club-member warehouse? That's saving 40 grand. So let's see: if a good discount is about 20 percent, that means they were going to pay $200,000 for furniture but practically stole it for $160,000.

By Mike McClintock

January 2, 2009