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60 ways to a smaller bill, and a house that's easier after 60

Donna's Home Book · Large-print edition 2026

Hon, this is what I learned in forty-one years keeping a Chicago apartment building warm. Sixty numbered ways to a smaller heat, electric and water bill, then the house itself, room by room, so it's easier to live in on your own.

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Chapter 1 starts with one evening, a pencil and your own bills.
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Donna's Home Book: Sixty Ways to a Smaller Bill, and a House That's Easier After 60, by Donna Kowalski

Donna's Home Book

Sixty ways to a smaller bill, and a house that's easier after 60

Heat, electric, hot water and water: what really moves the number. Then the house itself, room by room: more space, fewer falls, less bending and lifting. 148 pages, in large print.

  • What you get
  • The full 148-page large-print book: 20 chapters
  • Sixty numbered ways to a smaller heat, electric and water bill
  • The house room by room: the way in, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom
  • Pages you fill in: a list for each season, your bills, “Who I Call”
  • Help with bills you may already qualify for, and how to ask

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From the book

Small jobs for an ordinary afternoon

Hands pressing rope caulk into the bottom of an old window sash, snow outside
Way 6Rope caulk in a drafty window
An armchair with a wool throw and wool socks beside a lit lamp, snow outside the window
Chapter 4Warm the person, then the room
A small bright bathroom with a grab bar by the tub, a non-slip mat and a night light
Chapter 14A safer, easier bathroom

Contents

60 ways. 20 chapters. Two parts.

Numbered, because that's how you find things fast. Start with one evening and your own bills, use the ways that fit your house, and skip the ones that don't.

Part One · Ways 1–32

Heat

  • Know where the money goes5 ways
  • Windows and doors10 ways
  • The heat you already pay for9 ways
  • Warm the person, then the room8 ways

It's cheaper to heat you than to heat the air around you.

Part One · Ways 33–60

Water and power

  • Hot water7 ways
  • Electricity10 ways
  • Water, and the quiet leaks7 ways
  • When summer comes4 ways

Part One · Chapters 9–10

Help, and the year

  • Help you've already paid for
  • How to ask, and who not to let in
  • The year in four lists
  • Two pages to fill in

Real programs, and what to do each season.

Part Two · Chapters 11–20

The easy home after 60

  • The fifteen-minute walk-through
  • The way in, the stairs and light
  • Bathroom, kitchen and bedroom
  • Living on your own, well
  • Hiring help without getting taken

More space, fewer falls, less bending and lifting.

A look inside

Three real pages from the book

Donna's Home Book, page 4: the contents
The contents
Donna's Home Book, page 19: Ways 6 and 7, rope caulk and weatherstrip
Ways 6 and 7: stopping a draft
Donna's Home Book, page 74: The Fall List, a page you fill in
The Fall List, a page you fill in
Donna Kowalski at her kitchen table with a mug and her bills

Who wrote it

Hon, I'm Donna.

I spent forty-one years keeping a four-hundred-unit Chicago apartment building warm. Walt, who trained me from 1978, started me off with: “Can you carry the toolbox? Then you can learn what's in it.”

Four hundred apartments teach you what the warm, tidy, easy ones have in common. I wrote it down plainly: what really moves a bill, and what makes a house easier once you're past sixty.

Donna

Before you buy

Questions I get asked

How do I get it after I pay?

Right away. You pay by card, and the book lands in your email in about a minute. Nothing is sent in the mail.

What format is it, and can I print it?

One PDF in large print. Read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or print it on plain paper at home. The fill-in pages are made for printing.

Is any of this dangerous?

The jobs in the book are small ones. Anything involving gas, wiring, the inside of a furnace or water heater, a roof or a ladder is marked as a job for a licensed professional or a helper. No saving is promised; every house is different.

Is this a subscription?

No. One payment, and the book is yours to keep.

What's the refund policy?

Seven days. Send one email to donna@donnafixes.com inside a week and you get your money back. You don't have to say why. The details are on the refunds page.

The first page of Chapter 2, Windows and Doors

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Start this evening

One evening. Your own bills.

Chapter 1 takes one evening and the bills you already have. After that, pick the ways that fit your house. Yours to keep, on any screen or on paper.

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