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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat temp do you keep your winter thermostat at?
inquiring minds want to know.I remember when Pres. Carter had everyone turn down their thermostats in the winter, I can't remember what temp. He also kept the WH super cold, according to staff.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)62-63. How about you?
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)We keep it at 67.
not for someone with Scandinavian and northern European ancestry
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)bundle their infants, put them in a carriage and leave them outside! For their health!
those crazy Swedes, huh? My Scandinavian roots are Norwegian.
Polly Hennessey
(6,798 posts)RussellCattle
(1,535 posts).....are now quite a bit older and retired, we do wear a lot more clothes and watch teevee with a blanket.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)I vaguely remember the nation having a meltdown about keeping their home so cold.
Wimps.
RussellCattle
(1,535 posts).....cheating all these years. My wife would have never agreed to 65 so maybe that was our compromise.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)2naSalit
(86,636 posts)I'll be awful with you because that's exactly what I do.
Joinfortmill
(14,427 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,382 posts)Maybe because I'm from the south.
ChazII
(6,205 posts)too.
peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)60 at night. And lots of layers.
Squeaky41
(160 posts)68 all day and night
CA Sierra Foothills
78 in summer with A/C
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Im now in an apartment and the heat is so hot that I never use the blower and keep the window open year round. I live in NYC.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I'm sure that I'd keep the windows open too.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)He's a good man.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)he was yelling that someone was messing with the heat and he had to keep turning it back to 68.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)The heater rarely turns on unless outside temps are in the teens or lower. (I might be a "bad neighbor" since I'm surely a heat-parasite of the units on each side of me.)
Wearing multiple layers while indoors right now, as usual in the Winter.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)I have a friend that spent time in Ireland and she said they kept their homes so cold you could see your breath!
Rural living.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)... I had my mitochondrial DNA tested a few years ago and they're about the most heat-producing (inefficient) around. So my mother's distant maternal ancestry likely lived near Siberia or wherever.
It helps explain why my mother and all my siblings would be hot while our father was cold! Probably also why, despite me being a speedster as a kid, I wasn't a good distance runner.
My ex-wife also loved to cuddle in the Winter, but would jab me with an elbow in the Summer. Lol.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)doc03
(35,340 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)wear a sweater or fleece during the day.
dweller
(23,640 posts)and 3 log ...
thermostat ?
whats that?
✌🏻
Yonnie3
(17,442 posts)If I want warmer (always), I put wood in the stove. Sometimes I strive for Miami in August (without the humidity). The nice thing about the point source of heat is, if I feel chilly I can move closer and if I feel hot I can turn on the ceiling fan and store the heat in the concrete slab.
In the city it is usually 68, but may be +/- 2 degrees. The thermostat is mounted on a masonry wall that causes it to lag behind the temperature in other areas of the house.
Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Wolf
dhill926
(16,339 posts)then again we live in SoCal by the coast...
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Occasionally I'll crank it up to 74 for a few minutes if I've been out in cold weather, just to get warmed up fast.
Thankfully we have zoned heating so I can just my office and a room next door, not the entire house when I'm here working alone during the day.
trackfan
(3,650 posts)I'm in Los Angeles. Even when I did have heat, I never ran it at night; just bundled up.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Apt mate does not agree and the thermostat is next to his room.
My vents are turned off at my end.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)It's an old, drafty house and the insulation isn't the best, so 68 can feel a bit nippy, but if I get cold I just wear more clothes, so it's pretty tolerable.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)I upped this year one degree higher.
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)Hot and humid south
broiles
(1,367 posts)But I have a big solar array to compensate.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)We love thick blankets. Much more comfortable than thin blankets and the heat on at night.
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Whatever the heck that is in Fahrenheit.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)I have a great comforter I use at night, and a smaller one I drape over me to read or watch TV. Works for me...
3catwoman3
(24,003 posts)...66-68 during the day, depending on how cold it is. On really cold and really windy days, we may have to nudge to 69-70. In the greater Chicago area, we have some pretty Arctic temperatures, and some pretty ferocious windchills at times.
Whe we lived in Denver, one of my husbands friends was particularly tight with a nickel. He kept his house at 55 and wore extra sweaters to keep his heating bill low. My husband thought this sounded like a great idea. I told him that if he wanted to continue living with me, this would NOT be happening. It didnt.
I love a heating pad on my feet in the winter.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)At night, 68.
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)And it virtually never kicks on overnight. If we keep it 68 approaching bedtime, the house is insulated well enough to stay above 60 until the threshold changes back upwards in the morning.
We used to keep midday at 60 or even off, but because of covid we are working from home now so we set a higher lower-limit.
MissB
(15,810 posts)is always moving air around. The heating part of it kicks on now and again quietly in the background but the fan is always (also quietly) on and moving the air about. We had this furnace put in a few years back- its a multi stage- and now the former hot spots are no longer. The house is just one giant 70 degree comfort zone, no matter the level. Well, the basement is actually 3 degrees cooler. Used to be like 15 degrees cooler but we just installed a new garage door and viola! suddenly its only 3 degrees cooler than the upper two levels.
Our winter time heating bills also were dramatically reduced. Our worst winter bill approached $200 before we replaced the system and now it barely goes over $100 at the peak.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)When we renovated this house we put spray foam insulation in, so we are quite warm at that temperature. We are all electric, and our total house electric bill right now is $170/month. In our previous bigger house with rolled insulation, between electric and gas we would shell out almost $300.
tblue37
(65,391 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,057 posts)Old Honeywell, so it's hard to tell if it's 69 or 70.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and floor space heaters including a bathroom space heater. I get pretty acclimated to the cold.
The electric company here actually sent me a $25 check as a reward for keeping my usage down. It was a pleasant surprise.