How low is your heat set right now?

And what are you wearing?

I was flabbergasted by the utility bill (even though we were at 68 when we were home and 60 during the day and night), so I dialed the thermostat back even more.

I have on two pair of socks, slippers, sweatpants, turtleneck and fleece zip up. I was still cold, so I threw on my heavy terry bath robe over it all. It's quite a fashion statement to say the least.

I was thinking about getting an electric space heater, but not sure what or where to buy it.

however a) I have a drafty old house and b) I am sitting in this easy chair with a oil space heater (Lakewood model 7101) running at 900 watts to my left and a candle burning to my right.
I am wearing two pairs of socks, shoes, jeans and two pairs of long johns, a hooded sweatshirt with hood up, and three more sweatshirts. My toes are cold. I think I am going to put my boots on.

I have one window open and two space heaters set on low and I am wearing a Tweety sweatshirt. I love winter, so 44 degrees is just fine with me. But of course, I live in North Georgia, so we only get extreme cold temperatures occasionally, where it will go into the teens or single digits very rarely.

a turtle neck, a fleece top and a sweatshirt. At night I turn the heat to below 50 and my natural gas bill was still about double what it was last year..I can't stand to think what January's bill will be like.

And, I posted this because I'm getting in disagreements with other members of my household about how cold I have been keeping it. I just wanted to see if I'm the only one. We're not exactly poor, but who can afford to pay more than $1,000 for heat and electricity for three months?

but also I wear a couple of layers of clothing and keep my laptop in my lap (mmm, toasty!) when I'm sitting down.

I've been baking for several days now and you do feel warmer in the kitchen and in general.

Ours is set at 66-67 now, but we turn it down at night to 60?

I have a fleece top over a t-shirt and fleece socks... and it isn't quite as cold here as it has been. The Nov. gas bill was only $87.00, not sure how we managed that. I was expecting it to be much higher. I have used those electric heaters that look like radiators, but they use quite a bit of electricity, also expensive.

I feel comfortable, my h has on just a t-shirt, and my kid seems oblivious... he is like a furnace anyway. But there have been days when I was pretty cold... I do a lot of work at home in the less heated "computer room."

I'm scared to see what it is.

the lads are not supposed to get too warm if you care about reproducing.

Don't go too low. A frozen pipe could be a costly repair.

I don't think anyone has it low enough for the pipes to freeze? How do you know and protect them?

heating up more than half of my house. My heating bills were huge last year so i'm hoping this thing will cut them down at least 30%.

Because I'm trying to get COLD!

I'm wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants.

When I feel chilled, punch it up a bit for a while. Always turn way down when leave and at night. My dog (a Westie) loves cool temps so do not worry about him.

I still had the highest gas bill I ever received this month,and it's only been on since Nov.17th.

We live in a 24 story building on the 11th floor. We don't have to have our heat on. this place is well insulated and there's all kinds of heat seeping in from under the door. It never gets cold in here. As a matter of fact, we have to, more often, crack the patio door because it gets to hot. I'm wearing gray lounge capris, a yellow tshirt and there's a fan blowing on me from my right. And it's 36 degrees outside.
Duckie.

We aren't paying for it. :evilgrin:
Duckie

I can't turn it off during the day because of my pets. It's been really cold here lately.

And I am cold!

I took my temperature just a bit ago, thinking maybe I was having fever chills, but my temperature was only 96.9 (so at least I've a reason to be this cold!).

Dogs are comfortable and that's all that matters.

I'm wearing sweats. If I get cold, I can get off my ass and go do something. When I'm doing housework, I'm actually comfortable. I do keep a spaceheater in the bathroom for showering though.

jeans, a tshirt wit a sweater over it, 2 pair of socks, my sneakers and my jacket.

Wearing medium weight sweatshirt, jeans, socks, pair of walking shoes. I'm comfortable, but the sun is going down now, so the temp will drop. I'll probably change to a pair of fleece sweatpants in awhile.

but my A/C was blasting. Thankfully we have a cold front coming in on Wednesday, just in time for the Holidays!!

since I live in a basement/garage apartment and don't have control of the thermostat. But right now I'm wearing velour/fleece pants, a long-sleeve sweat shirt, velour/fleece hoodie, socks, and suede/fleece slippers. And my toes are still cold. Of course, it is 15 degrees outside and snowing.

That's how I'm getting by.

You can get a small space heater that won't cost much and it will really help warm up your living area. The steam vaporizer or even boiling water on the stove also helps.

One time my furnace went out for a few days and I kept my house comfortable with nothing but my electrice oven, boiling pots of water and a space heater.

I don't run the space heater at night but I do keep the vaporizer running.

I'm doing everything I can and dreading my first winter gas bill. Good luck. :)

Any lower and my hands and feet to cold, wood floors.

Just the space heater in the kneehole under my desk. And it's FREEZING today!

We have a space heater in the bedroom (an eheater) and one in the office.

The best heater in the house is the eheater: www.eheat.us. The bedroom gets so warm sometimes at night (or else perimenopause is whipping my butt) that I have to be out from under the covers.

I'm wearing Happy Bunny pajama pants, a long sleeved knit cotton top, wool socks and danskos. I need to go work out, then shower, then go to the grocery store, but I have been lazy today.

I sold my house recently so I get how much it costs to heat a house. But I gotta have it warm in my place so I would spend the money. Now, it is about 73 n my place (top floor).

:evilgrin:

But I am wearing fleece pants and a long sleeved t-shirt, cuz it's only about 60 today. ;)

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Last April, I went to Phoenix for a conference. It was 82 deg when I landed at 4:00pm. I changed from pants to shorts. When I got to where I was supposed to be, there were 2 other midwesterners in shorts. The natives said it was cold when the temp dipped to 70 by the end of the evening. And I was still comfortable in my shorts. I tend to be very cold natured, but have adjusted to midwestern temps.

Gas bill will be high again this month, but as we sleep upstairs, it's not too bad at night as long as we wear flannels and have a medium blanket and comforter. Sometimes I use a heating pad because my injured knee needs a little more warmth.

Still considering covering my windows in the back rooms though, since we don't raise the windows back there. I try to open the drapes on our living room windows since they face south.

And isn't it interesting that gasoline went up 40 cents in the past 2-3 weeks. :bounce:

I lived in Nebraska until 2 months ago. My family still lives there, they're dealing with paying for their heating bills...so I'm really not trying to downplay the problems that heating costs are creating in cold climates.

On the other hand, this is my first non-winter and I'm darn well enjoying it. :)

It's only 45 right now, sweats keep me more then warm enough.

I keep it at 68 downstairs....usually!
Sometimes when I'm cooking (using the oven),I lower the downstairs thermostat.
I try to keep a pot of boiling/simmering water to raise the humidity,
hence the temp!
But my bedroom (upstairs) does get very chilly! Poor wall insulation.
Sometimes I turn up the upstairs thermostat just to take the chill off that room,
then I lower it again.
It's 35 degree's outside here right now but will be colder in a few hours!
My heat and hot water are included in my lease but I still conserve,
as much as possible.
I'm wearing a cotton flannel pullover shirt,leggings, socks and suede shoes!
It's just right in here right now!
I have all hardwood floors and that tends to make it chillier in here at night.
I do add a fleece vest later when it gets colder!
There is a draft from my dining room window, at my back.
Especially when the wind is blowing and it's snowing!
Brrrr!
Oh yeah...and beer!! :beer: Helps keep me warm! lol
:P

and our thermostat is set at 65. It doesn't always kick on when it should, either, so hard to say what the temp is in here. We turn it down to 60 at night coz I keep flannel sheets, a blanky and a fleece throw on the bed under the comforter. I'm wearing a knit long-sleeved shirt, light knit pants and slippers.

the central heat on. I wear my flannel PJ's, and a fleece cardigan over that, and just snuggle under my down comforter and a heavy acrylic blanket. If needed, I'd turn on the little heat dish I have in the room. But with my fleece cardigan and my blankets, I haven't need to use the little heater yet.

My mom is doing the same. She's not heating up the entire house because the bill would be too much. So she just heats her bedroom with a little heater.

actual temperature. However, we're both toasty now. My parents' downstairs, where the kitchen is, was cold tonight. But the Hardhead apartment is toasty.

I have on socks, big furry scuffies, pants, his t-shirt and a zip-up.
He has on socks, slippers, sweats, and a thermal henley. (Nobody's wearin' flip-flops tonight..)

The bed has a sheet, bedspread, comforter, and a flannel blanket. Veery toasty. I like it! :hi:

while I am baking. It was 81 here today, the windows are still open and I am in shorts and a tee shirt. Maybe we can settle for something in the middle. I would like to be able to wear pants for Christmas dinner.

I'm wearing jeans, a thermal knit shirt, a heavy cotton sweater and, overall, a big wool fleece robe that sheds more than a shaggy dog. On my feet: heavy socks and (of course:) ) fuzzy slippers. I'm still cold so I just got under a blanket and put a heating pad on top of my feet.

Oh and I have on a thermal shirt, sweats, and wool socks. I took off my sweater and fleece pullover when I just now had a big bowl of Miso soup.

The worst part of the cold is that it is very hard for me to work up any enthuseasm for washing dishes in long sleeves. Yuckko!!! Gotta do them before bedtime though.

About the matress pads. A matress pad heats the matress a little (it's insulation) then heats whatever is on top of it; you. A space heater is going to heat all of the air in the room before you get warm. The radiant kind with parabolic reflecters should NEVER be used as they are a major source of fires.

We have flannel sheets, a couple of heavy blankets and a comforter. The problem is that I can't stay in bed all day. :-)

I'm fine unless I'm sitting at the computer or watching TV. I just want something to take the chill off my feet and hands. Heck, my nose is even cold.

I have never had any decent experiences with electric space heaters; you'd do better to spend the cash on thermals.

I wear sweatshirts all the time.

Around 68 at night. Which is icebox temperatures for me. I like it about 20 degrees warmer. Damn the heat bills, anyway. :(

I am wearing a pair of boxer briefs and a big smile! :rofl:

I've just added an egg rack and butter tray to our front door.

a fleece jacket. And warm socks with slippers.

I'd rather be cold. :)

I turned it up 3 -4 degrees for my daughter who is home for the holidays - she hates to be cold.

I do have a space heater in the basement for when I'm working or posting - I figure at least I'm not heating the whole house that way.

For some reason, I thought it wouldn't happen to me. At any rate, I've dialed back the three downstairs systems (we have a boiler), to 65 during the day, and 62, at night, which keeps the temperature, oddly, at about 69 degrees in the day -- don't know how much, at night. The upstairs, I keep at 60, at all times.

Last night, I was so cold that I wanted to die. Right now, I'm chilling, hardcore, and I have on a wool snow cap, a pair of cotton pants, a long-sleeved cotton t-shirt, with an ankle-length sweater dress over all of it, and, additionally, a zip-up sweater. Last night, I had all of this, and a sleeping bag and another blanket, and I was still cold.

I'm trying this experiment out -- my answer was a lot different, last week, when this same question was asked. I don't know how long this is going to last. I get COLD, now -- so cold that I get sick from being chilled. We'll see what happens.

or mattress warmer like the others said.

I'm miserable, too. I think I'm going to start finding places nearby to go to get out of the house more.

I haven't turned on the pilot light yet....the thermometer in the house says it's 70 degrees in here. It's afternoon.
This part of SoCal...I am hoping I won't be turning on the heater this year, at all.



Tikki

Google says it is 33 degrees F. I imagine it is slightly warmer in my room and I have on a hoodie and a old pair of Dickies. The rest of the house is significantly warmer (The heater is set at 66F, I think).

it's beed cold at night too....there was frost a couple of nights ago.

Heat pump and relatively cheap electricity.
Wearing knit jammy pants, T shirt and fleece vest.
comfy

are the Delonghi "radiator" type ..... they don't dry the air out (as badly) and it's damn near impossible for one to catch anything on fire. And they're pretty economical.

Oh yeah, and they last forever!

and has been a good part of the day. Wood burning FP keeping the LR at 70, colder in rest of house. But the LR is where the teevee and the football are. We'll need to turn the gas central heat on again soon, it's in the 20's outside and the FP won't handle it alone. Wearing flannel sweats and fake sheepskin lined moccasin style slippers that come up around the ankle.

Mr 'pede must have made a pass by the thermostat. The heat just cranked up.

I don't know how accurate it is. Though I'm in an apartment block, so I suspect there's insulation from the surrounding units. I'll turn it down to 50 grad for sleeping. I'm wearing shorts and t-shirt, but have a wide comfort zone. Yesterday, I was pedalling in shorts. There are still plow piles of snow about. Some chappie pulled up beside me in a car and said it made him cold just looking at me.

Yet in my building, there are eejits who crank the heat up, then keep the window open for fresh air. Rich, snot-nosed, Georgetown students.

Got to love heat included.

When it's on it's ON and when it's off it's OFF.

It was OFF earlier so I was wearing long johns, ski pants, cashmere sweater with a sweatshirt over that, and two pair wool socks. Worked great except for my hands.