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"  Once again Skip and I head to Home Depot when we had a couple of free hours this past weekend. Now, there is nothing wrong with Home Depot but I hate it because it feels like half of my life is spent in that store. Fortunately, we didn&amp;#039;t have to pick up a lot of stuff so I was able to wander around and just look. On one of the aisles I found these great outlet insulators. Basically, they are foam sheets with cutouts in the shape of either a lighting switch or outlet and you put them behind the face plate to keep the cold air out. You don&amp;#039;t think of your outlets and light switches as a place where your heat can escape but it can. And with the price of heating oil nowadays I don&amp;#039;t want ANY of it escaping. So we get home and I start taking off face plates on all the exterior outlets in my house; and by just removing the face plates I can feel the cold air with my hands. These sheets were the perfect sizes and fit directly over the outlets and covered the open spaces between the outlet and wall opening. I simply put the face plate back on and moved onto the next outlet. Now I know these insulators aren&amp;#039;t going to cut my heating bills in half but every little bit helps, doesn&amp;#039;t it? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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