I can recall a time when there was only one kind of fireplace.
And that was the real fireplaces that were built into people’s homes.
This is how I grew up. We were not fortunate or wealthy enough to have a fireplace in our home. However, my uncle and aunt were! They were pretty well off. Not rich, but close. And they had this really upscale home with this beautiful fireplace in it. Every single holiday season we would stop over there for desert after dinner and love and take in their totally awesome fireplace. The fireplace was warm, cozy and had this special kind of atmosphere that you would never even come close to with the gas fireplaces and electric fake fireplaces that people can buy for just a grand or so today. If you have never experienced a real fireplace in your life you are for sure missing out on an experience. I always for as long as I live will relate real fireplaces in homes to my aunt and uncle’s fireplace back in the day. Those were much different, simpler and happier times in the world. And the other thing about their fireplace I remember is that it cost nothing but the cost of firewood to run it! And it could heat up the living room if they did not feel like putting on their gas furnace that they had at the time. So that saved some money right there in energy use, because gas furnaces even take money to run. Not as much as central heating and air conditioning today, but furnaces were not energy use free and fireplaces were.
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