I'm not going to wear long underwear inside my own house in the winter.

Op come up with a compromise.

Anonymous wrote:Separate bedroom, space heater.

This.

With a 5500 SF house, one of you should simply move into another wing.

72 is too hot especially if it is humod

Growing up, if we told our parents we were cold in the house in the winter time, we were told to put on socks and a sweater/sweatshirt. If we had already done those things and were STILL cold, they would let us turn it up.

Anonymous wrote:how cold is it at night? we set ours no warmer than 62 night, 68 day.

I would love this, but I have the opposite problem in that DH keeps turning the heat up to 70 which is way too warm for everyone except him.

Sleep Foundation says best temp at night for good sleep is 65 (with a range of 60-67).

I program the thermostat to drop to 65 at 9 pm and come back up to 68 at 7 am. I have a big down comforter on the bed and sleep great! If I was sleeping with someone else, I would go European style with one down comforter per person.

During perimenopause, I was cold all the time, so during the day, I had to have the house warmer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how cold is it at night? we set ours no warmer than 62 night, 68 day.

I would freeze in your house! Do you ever get houseguests?

You won't freeze. You are just used to warmer settings.

NP. My threshold as a host is not “will my guests physically die.” If my guests are cold, I turn the heat up a bit—I usually keep it around 68, but when I have guests, I ask.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:how cold is it at night? we set ours no warmer than 62 night, 68 day.

I would freeze in your house! Do you ever get houseguests?

You won't freeze. You are just used to warmer settings.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting variation here. My mom was always cold, so our house was warm - in winter and in summer. I'm trying to get my body to accept that 68 degrees inside is good in the winter, because I think I can get used to it. Meanwhile, I'm freezing. I can accept AC at 78 in the summer, no problem, though.

Same here. 68 is cold to me. I keep the heat there but it is cold to me. I also come from down South where it was warmer for longer parts of the year.

Anonymous wrote:What are your hearing and cooking bills? This is insane!

We keep our house at 67 during the day and 65 at night in the winter. In the summer we keep it was 72 during the day and 70 at night.

Your body will adjust to the heat and/or cold. You are using so much energy to heat and cool your house it’s killing the planet!

Heating and cooling*

What are your hearing and cooking bills? This is insane!

We keep our house at 67 during the day and 65 at night in the winter. In the summer we keep it was 72 during the day and 70 at night.

Your body will adjust to the heat and/or cold. You are using so much energy to heat and cool your house it’s killing the planet!

Anonymous wrote:I go down to 64 at night. I would sweat at 72.

I go down to 65 and the highest I ever put it is 69 during the day. I would hate 72 and no way could I sleep. You’re being unreasonable, OP.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t get over how cold some of you keep your homes. We are different from OP since we are all in agreement at our house. But we need 71-72 during the day and 70 at night. We all freeze if it is 70 or lower during the day.

70 degrees and you “freeze”?

We keep ours at 70 during the day, 65 overnight. But we keep our bedroom door closed and a window next to the bed cracked sightly open, so our room is colder than that. I keep an extra blanket on my side of the bed.

We keep it warmer in the summer. When the AC is running, we only cool it to 75-78.

Cold air might not make everyone cough, but dry air certainly will. We run a humidifier with our heater. If the heater gets turned off, the humidifier goes off too, and we all feel it. Much better to just turn the temp down.

Separate bedroom, space heater.