Did you turn your heat on last night?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

Yay, you! Be miserable and feel good about it at the same time. That’s amazing.

We’re better human beings than you. We are literally higher forms of life and care more about the earth than you.

And so modest, too!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

50? Seriously?

Do you have oil?

I can’t imagine going below 65-68.

I understand forgoing AC in the summer since many people enjoy being warmer, but I don’t know anyone who enjoys being cold in the winter.

Do you live in New England or Canada? Because surely you can't be talking about DC!

I can't live without AC. Heat? Much easier to add layers and slippers and drink tea, than be sweating and smelly all day. It doesn't even get that cold in winter in DC.

[Anonymous]

My heat is running right this very minute to keep the house near 70. Otherwise it would be mid 60’s. No guilt or shame whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My heat and AC have been on for about 15 years. Why would you turn them off when you have a thermostat to set and control the temperature? House drops below 65, heat starts up. House goes about 74, air comes on.

We have gas heat and electric a/c. You have to turn each one on/off, you can’t just set a temp and have the relevant system kick on.

Actually we have the same and the thermostat allows you to have both cool and heat selected with set temps for both...so cool over 78 and heat over 65.

Our thermostat has memory settings for both, but you still have to tell it when to stop using and a/c and start using heat. It doesn’t just switch back and forth minute by minute on its own. That would be weird - if it accidentally overheated the home it would just turn on the ac to compensate? That doesn’t sound right. But I’m no expert.

We basically have a few weeks each fall and a few weeks each spring where we use no heat or a/c and the rest of the time it’s one or the other. Our home is very efficient though and our bills rarely exceed $300/month for a very large home.

Only an issue if you heat and cool to the same temp which would be unusual since you are likely dressing quite differently. We are about 10 degrees different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

50? Seriously?

Do you have oil?

I can’t imagine going below 65-68.

I understand forgoing AC in the summer since many people enjoy being warmer, but I don’t know anyone who enjoys being cold in the winter.

Here I am! I hate being hot and love being slightly cold all the time. Current house temp 59. Windows are open.

+1. I've always liked being cold. As a teenager, I ran a window unit AC during the winter to chill my room down to a temperature I could sleep at because my parents kept it too hot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

50? Seriously?

Do you have oil?

I can’t imagine going below 65-68.

I understand forgoing AC in the summer since many people enjoy being warmer, but I don’t know anyone who enjoys being cold in the winter.

Here I am! I hate being hot and love being slightly cold all the time. Current house temp 59. Windows are open.

+1. I've always liked being cold. As a teenager, I ran a window unit AC during the winter to chill my room down to a temperature I could sleep at because my parents kept it too hot.

Why not just crack open the window??

[Anonymous]

My buttocks enjoys being cold

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

You should live in a tent bozo

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

50? Seriously?

Do you have oil?

I can’t imagine going below 65-68.

I understand forgoing AC in the summer since many people enjoy being warmer, but I don’t know anyone who enjoys being cold in the winter.

Here I am! I hate being hot and love being slightly cold all the time. Current house temp 59. Windows are open.

+1. I've always liked being cold. As a teenager, I ran a window unit AC during the winter to chill my room down to a temperature I could sleep at because my parents kept it too hot.

Why not just crack open the window??

I don't remember, but I think there was a reason. We lived in the south so it might have just been still too warm outside to cool it down. The house thermostat was set to 75.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We keep our thermostat set to 50 in the winter and 88 in the summer. We’d go colder in the winter but any lower and we start to have pipe freezing concerns in the laundry room and garage. In the summer we wouldn’t use AC at all but we have to to keep the mold from spreading everywhere.

Bottom line, we care more about saving the planet than anyone else here. The rest of you suck.

50? Seriously?

Do you have oil?

I can’t imagine going below 65-68.

I understand forgoing AC in the summer since many people enjoy being warmer, but I don’t know anyone who enjoys being cold in the winter.

Oil? Of course not. Our home is all electric.

And yes, of course it’s miserable. We’re doing it because we care more about the planet than you do, and we’re backing it up.

You use electricity? You wasteful aristocrat. We use a combination of solar panels and a generator that's powered by sound waves from our self-righteous pontificating.

[Anonymous]

What have set it this week?
At night this week?
Estimated bill $?

[Anonymous]

Ugh, send help. DH keeps turning it DOWN from our usual 68 now to 66.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What have set it this week?
At night this week?
Estimated bill $?

We're keeping it set at 60 both day and night. I'd go a tad lower at night but am being hyper cautious about pipes freezing.

[Anonymous]

It's set at 70 like usual and I'm just resigned to the bill being insane this month. Everything is miserable enough right now without also being uncomfortable indoors.

[Anonymous]

Mine stays at 72. Furnace has been running all the time and the heat pump has been on and off. It might be $1000 in February.