What is the Temperature of Your House?
June 26, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under family
I’m sitting here under a blanket trying to keep warm. The air around me is cool and there is also a breeze from the ceiling fan.
As I lie here, I’m wondering how many of you have the same issue as me. My husband and I differ on what temperature we like our home to be. We have disagreed on this for years. He is very hot natured and although I wouldn’t consider myself cold natured, I certainly don’t want the air conditioning at 69F. Brrrr.
I guess it’s easier for someone who is cold natured to put on layers of clothing whereas the other person would be extremely uncomfortable, restless, and irritable. Still, it is a difficult compromise to find sometimes.
You may be wondering what temperature my husband likes to be. Honestly I have no idea, but for the most part when he is gone to work during the day I keep the air conditioning on 73-74. When he comes home, I usually turn it down to 71-72. Then at night, it goes on 69. He just doesn’t sleep well if it’s too hot in the house. Besides, I can put extra blankets on the bed and be ok.
At what temperature do you keep your thermostat? Do you and your spouse disagree in this matter or do you both enjoy like temperatures?
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I’m EXTREMELY cold-natured, so at my house (since it’s just me and my son) the temp is currently 80 at our house, and I’ve nudged it up to 81 a few times just to stop it running. Further into the summer I’ll drop it on down to 78 and maybe to 76, but that’s about it for me.
Now in the winter, it ranges between 68 and 74, which is weird, but I guess that my body compares the inside temperature to the outside temperature to register whether I’m warm or cold or not.
For the sake of our electricity bill we have to keep it closer to 78-80 in the hottest part of the year. A/C can only cool about 20 degrees below what it is outside so setting it at anything below 75 between May and Sept is futile anyways. We lower it at night down to 72-73. I’d much prefer to have to put layers on because there Re only so many you can take off.