Heat and energy tips?

How big is your house? How well insulated is it? Do you have solar or some other supplimentary energy system?

Make sure your house is well sealed, especially around the doors and windows. Also, check around your pipes: I have seen some sizable gaps there that would be sure to let out the warm air in winter.

Close the doors and heating vents to the rooms you are not using. There is no need to use heat on empty space.

If you bake, when you're finished leave the oven door open so the warm air can get out into the house. Use the same principle with the clothes dryer. That may not seem like a lot of heat, but it does make a difference.

If you don't have carpet, use area rugs. Believe it or not, those do actually help keep the house from getting TOO cold.

Good luck, and congratulations!

Keep your heat as low as possible. We live in Florida and keep ours at 79 summer and 69 winter, but it will much different for Minnesota.

Use energy saving appliances.

Have a timer on your hot water heater.

Use insulating foam to seal any air leaks coming into the house. Where wires or pipes come in.

Be sure to re caulk around the outside of all windows and doors with clear silicone caulk.

If your attic isn't well insulated you can add rolls the opposite direction to improve the R factor.

These are all I can think of at the moment and probably more than you want to know about.

Good Luck on your new home.

Keep thermostat at 68 degrees. Do not turn it up and down. Have ceiling fans installed in as many rooms as you can afford, and i personally hang my clothes on hangers on the spare bathroom to dry most of the way overnight and then dry and fluff for only a few minutes late the next day. Make sure vents under foundation are closed in the winter.

A long extension cord plugged into your neighbors outdoor plug