“If we shortened our showers by one minute, we’d save $100 a year,” my son informs me, pausing for a moment to let the news sink in. “And if we shortened our showers by two minutes, we’d save $200 a year. If we didn’t take showers at all, we could be rich!
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“As for the AC, we leave it off and everybody gets one of those personal fans and points it at their face.”
“Why don’t we get the old-fashioned fold-out fans and wave them back and forth?” I ask.
“Now that’s just stupid,” he says.