My entire life I have had to be resourceful.
I did not grow up in a family where the two of us had a lot of money to back up our personal goals or individual comforts.
Instead, the two of us had to learn how to suck it up and power through a lot of difficult situations. If there was something that you needed to solve, you were not going to do it by calling a professional who would charge you an arm and a leg for their knowledge. Instead, you were going to have to do some research and determine a viable solution for next to no money. I will admit, it was often actually difficult living under these circumstances. However, I have typically figured out a way to get by without losing my cool. This was especially the case when I moved into my first home and realized that there were no indoor air handling devices. The aged building had zero central heating and cooling control available to the tenants who lived there. Instead, the proprietor encouraged us to use modern space heating systems and A/C window units to survive the dire seasons; Of course, I could not afford to purchase my own air conditioning plan at the time. I tried to find a used A/C window unit for many months however eventually I provided up and came up with alternative solutions to my air handling problem. I realized that I could create my own air conditioning unit, of sorts. If I gathered enough ice cubes I could set them in front of my kneeling fan and drape a wet cloth over both items. The fan would circulate air over the ice and through the frosty towel, effectively working prefer an air conditioning unit, at least, that’s what I told myself in order to survive those more than two miserably tepid summers.