I was reading a post over at Lost a Sock yesterday where she talked about how warm she liked to keep their house. And, I swear to you, my jaw about hit the floor. There are actually lots of people, apparently, who keep their thermostats at 74 degrees. Or higher! I think I would probably burst into spontaneous flame if we had our thermostat set at that for more than about, oh, 30 minutes.
And I realized that there are people who are just plain intolerant to cold. Much like I am intolerant to heat. I hate hate hate being hot. HATE IT. I have an actual adverse physical reaction to being too warm. Seriously! The worst is getting into a car on a sunny but slightly cool day and it’s already warm in the car from the sun coming through the windows but then they turn the heater on? ZOMG. My skin crawls and I feel an overwhelming urge to PANT, I kid you not. I cannot stand being warm. Why I don’t just migrate to the Arctic Circle, I have no idea.
We are misers around these parts and have been long before the current financial crisis ever hit. I guess it’s just lucky that I like to be on the cool side anyhow. During the winter, we have our thermostat set to 62 or so during the day. I bump it up if I need to, like when we get a storm and it’s cooler outside than usual. Generally, the house keeps it’s heat pretty well since the majority of the windows face the south side of the house and if the sun is shining, that goes a long way to keeping the place warm. The thermostat goes up to 68 for a couple hours first thing in the morning to warm up the house and then again in the evening. At night, we set it back to 58. Because if there’s one thing I hate, it’s when the heater runs while I’m sleeping. Even unconsciously, while I’m sleeping, I will toss and turn and wake up and sweat. It’s awful.
I generally wear my fleecy pajamas, slippers and a cozy robe during the day. Sometimes I put a blanket on my lap when I’m watching TV. The little kids too wear fleecy, cozy jammies during the winter months and when we dress for the cold, well, it works in the house too. We’re not the sorts to wear shorts and t-shirts during the winter months. If it’s 30 degrees outside, I figure I should be wearing a sweater. It’s not worth the heating bill just to be able to wear a t-shirt when at home.
I like it cold when I sleep so I can wear cozy pajamas and snuggle under a down comforter and flannel sheets. The boys both wear cozy pajamas and snuggle under a pile of covers. They haven’t complained about it and both have their favorite blankets. I always make sure Evie is wearing warm pajamas and even then she gets tucked under a double-width fleece blanket. Her room, like ours, faces the north side of the house so it’s cooler than the rest of the house. As such, we’ve put a space heater in her room and we ran it last night to great success. She stayed warm and cozy all night long. I’ve already mentioned that I like it cool when I sleep and we even have the ceiling fan running on low in our room at night so that things don’t get too stagnant.
So tell me this: Are we crazy? I promise, if you ever came to visit we would bump up the heat for you. But in the meantime, we sure do enjoy the comparatively small heating bills! What do you keep your thermostat at? And aren’t electronic thermostats just THE BOMB? Makes life SO much simpler.
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In other, completely unrelated news, I have a new review up over on ye olde review blogge. PBN saw fit enough to send my nine year old a Wii game to review and I think it’s safe to say that he thought it was the coolest thing to ever come in our mail EVER. What can I say? The boy likes video games. So yeah. Go check it out.
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NOT CRAZY at all.
My goal is to NOT turn my heat on this winter unless absolutely necessary. (although, I was freezing after I got out of the shower this morning, so I ran it for about 20 minutes).
I like to be cold when I sleep. And, I’ve got the whole hot flash thing going, so I sleep with a tower fan on, pointed at my feet. If I’m hot, I just stick my feet out and the fan cools my whole body down. But, when I’m not menopausal, I wear a long nightgown (totally sexy!) to bed or flannel jams. And, I have fluffy down comforter and flannel sheets.
Your house sounds perfect to me! I keep it on the chilly side here too.
I wish I knew what those temperatures were in Celsius. Or that I wasn’t too lazy to find a conversion site and type them in…
Here ya go http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm
62F=16C 58F = 14C 30F=-1C Sounds dang cold either way. Brrrrrr!!!!!
I like a warm house. And I don’t like to wear clothes to bed (TMI?). But I *do* have my fuzzy warm man to snuggle up against.
Marilyn you would totally love my scary car. The heater doesn’t work. You’ll really enjoy those frozen fingers and Rudolph nose you get after driving 45 minutes each way to work. My teeth are still chattering and it’s almost noon!
OMG! I’m making my husband read this. He complains about me keeping our thermostat set to 67 degrees day and night all winter long. If he reads 58 or 62 degrees he should be thankful I don’t do that!
Um, I would die at your house. We keep the thermostat at 71 degrees when it’s reasonably nice out, and at 72 degrees when it’s colder than -10 Celsius. And that’s cold. My mom keeps her place at 74 degrees, but I think that’s a little too warm.
I don’t need to be able to wear tanktops and shorts around the house, but I do want to go barefoot. And I don’t want to have to wear more than a tanktop and underwear to bed (otherwise I get tangled up in my PJ’s and can’t sleep). So I do tend to put a couple extra blankets on the bed and survive that way.
I find it funny how it can feel warm in the house at 72 degrees in the summer, but on certain days 72 degrees in the winter seems downright frigid!
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Marilyn, I knew you didn’t like hot. I did. But your house? That’s WAY too cold!! We keep our heater at 71, and we would probably have it higher, except with a 2 story house, the upstairs gets too warm. I HATE to wear layers of clothes. Or thick clothes. Which is why I HATE HATE HATE winter as much as you hate hot summer time. You keep your house colder than my parents did when I was growing up! And that’s saying something.
I’ve been reading your blog for about a month now and I laugh hysterically because you and I are so much alike! I grew up in Fallon (reside in Maine now, burrrrrrr!) and I have no clue how I found you in Reno but I really really enjoy what you have to say!
On this issue, in Maine everyone heats with OIL! Crazy, right? Yeah, so they’ve all had their heat on for two months. Ours clicked on last week when it finally hit single digits. I’m super cheap and I like to bake so it works out in the end :o)
I hear what you mean about sleeping with the heat on too! Ridiculous! How are you supposed to enjoy fluffy down comforters and flannel if it’s 65 degrees in your bedroom. The answer to that is… you can’t.