we like it cool. If I wanted to be hot, I'd move south.

i walk around with a sweatshirt, one or two sweaters, plus a robe sometimes...

i've been playing the piano the last couple months and my hands start freezing. sometimes i have to run them under hot water just to play better (not that it helps me play, lol!)

so, two degrees higher (up to 60) seems to have made a big difference tonight.

and crawl under some comfy comforters and then 60 - 62 during the day. Whatever temp keeps the end of the nose from being too cold.

I am so beat up and damaged that if it gets below 68/70 I ache...Warm dry air rocks but I live in Seattle.

but i have been cold lately

I'm beginning to truly hate cold weather.

I am actually cold to the touch if the temperature drops below about 74. Seriously. I can be sitting in a room full of people who are sweating and cursing the heat, and I'm shivering & my hands are icy. Extra layers of clothes don't really help. I like room temperature about 80.

keep their houses bone-chilling cold in the middle of Summer and toasty warm in Winter? If you magically moved the calendar forward six months in either case, they would be racing for the thermostat to "correct" it.

but in the summer i don't always run the air conditioner because of money and because it is more eco friendly NOT to

I don't even think about turning on the AC unless it's over 90 outside.

Too damp in the summer ao the a/c to dry it out and too set in the winter so Warner which holds more moisture.

Need a fairly airtight house to keep it even across seasons.

I had broken down and cranked it up to 60 a few weeks ago, but everybody around me was sick and my poor immune system was taking a beating keeping me from getting sick. Actually, twice I did find myself starting to succomb, but a cold pill and good night's sleep knocked it out of me.

I'd forgotten to turn it back down again until last night, when I heard the furnace coming on twice in a short time even though it was very warm inside.

I'll probably have to raise it again tonight or tomorrow when the below zero temps reach Maine. The wind is picking up already and I just felt a draft. which reminds me -- go plastic in the one window I haven't been able to get sealed up good yet...

We generally top out at about 69 in Winter during the day and drop it to 67 at night.

And my utility bill is going to be sky-high!!

Bring the rain back-- please!

Mostly to cut the humidity.
The humidity seems to go up in the dry season around here.
Right now, it's 73 outside.

Of keeping it at 65 and I am finding that not only am I more comfortable, I don't have to run the humidifier like I did when it was set higher. It's a pain to always have to be filling those big containers up, not to mention the mess I often make, spilling water on my hardwood floors.

I should turn it down at night, because I'm finding that I get hot in the middle of the night and can't sleep. Every night I have the fan on, so tonight, down to 60 it goes. I'll see how it works.




Cher

but i'm used to keeping it cool in the winter.

... almost entirely using a wood stove. This gives me the advantage of the exercise gained in cutting, splitting and hauling wood, coupled with saving $50-$70 a month on electricity.

But, it does require a certain amount of effort in keeping a fire burning. When it drops below about 30 degrees the amount of wood required starts rising exponentially as temperatures drop.

But overall, I love it. There is something about fire that is primally satisfying.

I cranked mine up to 73 earlier today.

we put plastic up on the windows and that helped a lot. we just wear hoodies and ropes around the house.

I get cold easily, but then I live in the south and have for most of my life.