Okay, I get home from work, and the Thermostat is set at 60 degrees! Brr! No wonder I've been getting so cold at night.
Having an ultra-high metabolism, all my energy is going into shivering and keeping me warm. My husband KNOWS this, yet he seems to care not. My optimal operating temperature is 76 degress Fahrenheit, but I'll settle for 72.
So, Hatrack, weigh in. What is the right temperature for optimal warmth and savings?
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
Get one of those timer thermostats. We have one and although we set the thermostat at 68 when we're home, I've been turning it up to 70 when I'm cold. It goes down to 63-65 during the day and when we're sleeping.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
We set our home thermostat at 68 degrees, however we have a drafty old farmhouse, and the furnace really has to work to even keep up with that on cold nights.
FG
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I boil myself in a hot bath every night to make up for the hubby's polar preferences in winter. And he still has the gall to make fun of my wool socks. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
So, you're saying I should stick to long underwear and sweaters in the house?
Sometimes I just wear my coat all day.
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Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I wear my coat all day sometimes. The most satifying part of my day is strippping off the wool socks and sticking my frozen piggies next to the furnace that is Ron. He always runs hot.
Opposites attract, and all that, I guess.
Jen, I'm guessing we'll have the heat in hotel room high enough to desiccate a housplant overnight. I look forward to it. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Does this hotel have a HOT TUB? Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Yes. It's next to the lobby, just outside the workout room.
Don't forget a swimsuit!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Warm thoughts:
Hot cocoa drunk while under a soft blanket by a roaring fire.
Lying on the beach under a sun so hot you have to jump in the sea to cool off.
Caldera exploring.
Tropical rainforests.
Deserts.
Ahhh, to be warm!
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
My house is usually around 68, but it gets really cold downstairs sometimes... I like it best around 68.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Jenny, my advice would be to invest in a good ceramic space heater or two. They're small, relatively efficient, safe, radiate all sorts of heat, and can make all the difference. C would prefer to have it at about 85 all the time, which is definitely on the warm side for me. We compromise by having the thermostat set to the mid 70s, and then her training space heaters on herself. It still gets too warm for me that way, but it's better than just having the heat cranked.
She wears long underwear and wool socks if it's below about 75 degrees outside. She's really not a winter person. Eventually we'll move to someplace that doesn't have winter, but it's hard to say when.
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
At night, in the winter, we have the heat set at 70. During the day, it just kinda depends on how either of us is feeling, or how much we're doing. It's usually set between 72 and 74, though, when we're home. Even then, if I'm just watching TV or a movie or reading, I'm generally in a sweater and under a blanket, probably with my slippers on, too. Dan's generally in a t-shirt, though. He's always a lot warmer than I am!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I have electric socks. Had a rechargeable battery that Steve would faithfully charge during the day and then I'd wear them all night. Though he hasn't been that bad this winter, probably because we now have a down comforter underneath the regular one.
AJ
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I get moody about temperature. In the winter I tend to like it scaldingly warm. Or at least 75 to 80; but my Dad insists on 65 as the optimal temperature. However, at night I like it to be really cold so I can get under all my blankets and feel toasty and comfy.
In my dorm room there really isn't much choice on the heat. At night I open the window and turn on fans (yes, even when it's snowing); durring the day I have the heater going full blast, but that's more a comment on the heater than me because despite the fact that it's only heating a 15'x8.5' room, you can run it full on all day and not break 70.
Hobbes Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Cooler is better for me. My husband has trained me, I think, because I used to like it skin warm.
We keep the house at 65 during the day (when I'm here working -- I have to keep my thick socks on -- but on the up-side, I am not tempted to take a nap). It goes up at 3pm when the kids get home, to 68. Then down to 55 at night around 10. I have gotten so used to sleeping in a chilly house that sleeping in a *warm* room is nearly impossible now.
Posted by Snarky (Member # 4406) on :
Ah, the joys of having free gas. We keep it at 72 all the time.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It is 71 during the day in my house, but half the rooms are colder (ei. computer room, piano room and the basement) so we have to heat those seperately. In the evening it goes up to 73 and at night down to 68. Personally, I prefer it to be warmer.
*shivers*
My school, on the other hand, feels icy. (excpet for this one stairwell which is lovely and warm and consequently crowded far more than the others). I think it's because we students are just sitting there that we spend much of our time being cold.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
jeniwren, we go to my parents who keep their heat about 72-75 all the time and roast while we sleep. Even though we only turn ours down to the mid sixties it makes quite a difference.
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
If it weren't such a pain to keep changing it, I'd have the thermostat at 70 during the day but 60 or even lower at night. Why? Not only do I have to be a little chilly to sleep right (otherwise I'm itchy), I need to have blankets on. Psychological comfort thing, maybe.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I also always need blankets on at night. But I'm easily chilled and my hands are ALWAYS cold. Always. I keep my apartment around 70 degrees. Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
I have been known to take off my coat on winter field trips while wearing only a t-shirt underneath. Not while it's freezing--I think my limit is 45 or so--but it boggled a good many people. 75 is almost too hot for me. Perhaps it has something to do with the reason I can't gain weight...
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I like my house to be around 58-60. That's where I'm comfortable at least. The good thing about being cold is, you can always wear warmer clothes. Or you can work out. That always warms me up when it gets to about 28 degrees F in the evenings.
When you're hot and you can't use machines to cool you off, you are pretty much out of luck.
I'm the kind of guy that can walk around San Francisco on a chilly winter day in flip-flop sandals, shorts and a T-shirt. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
There are chilly winter days in San Francisco? O_o
I do that here. Cold air feels nice.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
We each have a thermostat in our rooms here in Waterloo. I don't think we've turned on the heat anywhere but our bedrooms. Actually, I don't even know if we've all done that. Twinky put his at 50 for a while and I've yet to turn mine on.
mmm... cheap...
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Christy, the same thing happens to us when we go visit my step-mother-in-law in Portland. I swear she likes it at 80. We've gotten to the point that we leave the bedroom window open all night, even in November. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I prefer to keep it quite chilly at night and just have lots of blankets on the bed, but I worry about the cats since smaller people lose heat so much more easily, so I keep it warm for them, about 70, and use only a light covering.
At work the guys keep it an icebox in there, particularly in summer, so I nearly always wear a jacket at work. If I get too cold in summer, I'll find some reason to go outside for a few minutes and warm up. Guys' metabolisms are just turned up higher. They just generate a lot more heat that has to be shed somehow. I understand why they like it to be so freezing inside, so I just do jumping jacks or something to warm up if I get too cold.
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I keep it pretty cold during the night, too. It helps me sleep deeper when the sheets warm up. And microwaving one of those rice warmers to warm up the sheets is a DREAM.
Although when Bernard's down, I don't really care what the temperature is, as long as I can snuggle under a blanket with him.
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We have one and although we set the thermostat at 68 when we're home, I've been turning it up to 70 when I'm cold. It goes down to 63-65 during the day and when we're sleeping.
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But I'm easily chilled and my hands are ALWAYS cold. Always. I keep my apartment around 70 degrees. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
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