The house that we lived in whenever I was a kid didn’t have heating or air conditioning in it at all and we didn’t even miss it. I guess you don’t miss what you’ve never had. We didn’t really know anyone around town who had central air conditioning either. We were pretty poor whenever I was a kid, and we didn’t really even care. It was enough for us to have food and clothes and a roof over our heads, to be honest. We were pretty happy with our lives whenever we were growing up. Our parents were happy and so were we. I loved living in the old house where we used to live, even though it didn’t have a great HVAC system in it. We actually used to have to heat our home with a wood burning stove when I was growing up. I actually liked that aside from the fact that I was the one who had to go outside to bring wood inside most of the time during the winter. It was one of the chores that I had to do growing up, but keeping the heating going in the house was important for all of us. The fact that we didn’t have air conditioning was basically a non-issue for us, to tell you the truth. Since no one else we knew had air conditioning either, we basically just didn’t even think about it. Now that I’m grown, we have a great HVAC system in the house but sometimes I do miss the smell of wood smoke.