PSA: My house is too cold

[Anonymous]

I'm sympathetic if you are overweight or have hot flashes, OP. It's unpleasant to be too hot and at some point there are no layers you can remove to get comfortable. But before I aged and hit mesopause I was also the skinny 22 y/o who froze to death all summer at work because my coworker kept the AC blasting every day. Try to find a balance for your daughter to be comfortable.

[Anonymous]

It’s so interesting the temps people find comfortable. I keep my home at 66 daytime and 62 overnight. Seems y’all wouldn’t survive in my place.

[Anonymous]

I love mine at 66! My DD loses her mind when she comes home. I’m like get a few blankets!

[Anonymous]

I have been gradually working my way to lower temps. I am now comfortable at 59 degrees with a light cotton sweater / cardigan unbuttoned over a T-shirt.

[Anonymous]

We keep our heat at 66 and my 9yo daughter freaks out if it gets close to 70 - too hot

[Anonymous]

I'm skinny and perfectliy capable to withstand temperatures of 68. Op's daughter is a sissy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm skinny and perfectliy capable to withstand temperatures of 68. Op's daughter is a sissy.

Is calling a girl a sissy even an insult?

[Anonymous]

My DH prefers 62-64 and I prefer 72. We spend our days passing the thermostat and turning it up to 68'or down to 64. I envy a steady 69!

[Anonymous]

Please ask the vet for advice. The tortoise didn’t ask to be a pet and doesn’t deserve to be a pawn in this power struggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents kept the winter temp at 68 my entire life. Tell her you're doing your part to fight climate change

Same here. Grew up in New England, freezing in the winter and no A/C in the summer.

Fortunately my family of six all like the house cold. In the winter, we keep our house at 63 at night! I do like the A/C in the summer, though.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a thermometer? My thermostat is set to 68 but I had a digitial thermometer out and it turns out several of my rooms are 64.

[Anonymous]

We do 70 at night and 72 during the day. That seems to keep most people, old and young, comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is correct.

She is frequently wrong but rarely in doubt

Haha. That sounds exactly like my little sister.

[Anonymous]

We keep the house at 68 and it is cold but we layer up and when o work from home I use a space heater in a small room. Maybe she could use a space heater? Growing up my parents also had the thermostat on at 68 and I complained a lot.