Got a bread machine for a wedding present. Wife makes bread from scratch so what would I need that for. Turns out it also makes just dough. It has made approximately one pizza crust dough a week for 32 years. No exaggeration.

Maybe consider not washing things so often? Underwear, socks and t shirt I wear one day, but an outer shirt I might wear twice, pants or shorts for a week, towels last one to two weeks.

My house is set to 62° all winter

That’s part of the math

I haven’t seen one single news report saying anyone has actually seen him though.

I used to lean back, put my feet on the desk and eat my lunch while I read a book for 45 minutes or an hour, my back to the door of my office.

“Do you think he’s compensating for something?” -Shrek

If it can operate with a dumb switch, it can be run with an ESP32. You can probably also get an old fashioned wired keypad ( KEP-1 I think) for local operation.