The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Apartment life is always rife with problems of non-investment, and so was life in this house for a lot of years. Stuffing things under door cracks was something I've done a lot of, and I also recall some really labor-intensive Saran-wrap-style window shields involving double-sided tape and a blow dryer to shrink-fit the clear film (and YEARS of unremovable double-sided sticky tape on window frames).

I can't say I'm looking forward to lower heating bills, because the cost of this upgrade is being added as a loan payment to my electric bill from now until eternity, but I imagine the retrofit will let me cut down on the number of hugely wasteful hot-bath-just-to-get-warm events I'll indulge in in the coming winters.