If you plan your house design and building material rationally, you'll end up in saving many dollars monthly to spend that elsewhere. Design your house according to the established standards of a passive house, which will moderate the temperature by repelling intense heat and wintriness externally. The wall facing the north must be made of glass that would ensure maximum input of sunlight during winters and will keep house illuminated even in cloudy days. The most important thing in winter season is keeping your house and it is very easy to say but difficult to maintain. It is very difficult to maintain your heating system because of too much high electricity bills. For some family it is not easy to pay bills due to non-availability of funds. For poor and needy families, the low income home energy assistance program is designed. Once you get to know the consumption pattern, you'll be able to take corrective actions that will not only reduce unnecessary electricity usage but will also improve your budget. You can perform this energy audit yourself if you have the necessary knowledge of energy requirements, consumption pattern and methods to measure energy leakage. Certainly, several people say that house is not a house if it is not inhabited. So, positive aspects of civilization are necessary to make any house comfortable. We are required to take benefits from different technologies within the house to live in it with comfort. Few people can live without having the facilities of all available technologies. Close windows and ventilators during night and make optimum utilization of sunlight during day. With these, apparently small measures, you can save a lot. Use energy savers instead of ordinary electric bulbs. Go for onetime expense and purchase automatic lights that have timers and can even sense the right time to be switched off on their own. Most of these are onetime expense and you only have to bear fixed cost to enjoy peace of mind for the rest of your life. Scientists and engineers are working to make these alternative resources perfectly functional for residential units and their production on commercial scale will bring down their prices soon.