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Your AC setting
Our electric bill has been running about $100 a month. We got ours this month and it was $230. I think it may be that our AC runs a lot. Where do you keep your AC set at?
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this...particularly, the "humid" part. if it's not humid, we just let the ceiling fans do their thing.
last summer, we got a bill for $360 for ONE MONTH. we went out immediately and bought a ceiling fan!
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this...particularly, the "humid" part. if it's not humid, we just let the ceiling fans do their thing.
last summer, we got a bill for $360 for ONE MONTH. we went out immediately and bought a ceiling fan!
Emerald Nuts Midnight Run (4m) 1/1/12
Coogan's Salsa, Blues, and Shamrocks Run (5k) 3/4/12
Colon Cancer Challenge (15k) 4/1/12
Purple Stride NYC (5k) 4/21/12
Run to Combat Autism (5k) 4/29/12
RnR Philadelphia (Half Marathon) 9/16/12
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine living with my air set in the high 70's-80's! I commend anyone who can do that, I wish I could, for the sake of my bill! I am ALWAYS hot though. My air is usually set on 67, I *try* to turn it up to 70 at night, but I almost always wake up in a sweat and turn it back down. This is with fans also.
BTW, I am no expert on green living, I am very new here and have been lurking while trying to learn to live "greener"
We don't have one. At least... I don't think we do. We just bought this house in May and I haven't seen one of this big units outside. There's a window unit in one of the closets upstairs from the previous owner but I don't think it works.And it was 107 here today and has been over 100 all week. And actually really humid.
I spent almost every summer of my life except 2-3 working at summer camps that had no AC and had you outside all the time. You quickly learn to tolerate the heat. I do have a fan on me while in my office during the day and my office doesn't get any direct sunlight so it stays pretty cool. Then mid-day I'll take a quick cold shower to cool off. Also drinking a lot of ice water helps as does wearing skirts and knit tops.
ETA: I just did some quick math and I think if we had a central AC unit it would run our electric bill up to $800/month!!! Holy crap!!!!! So, I'm really happy we don't have one now that I've learned that.
We had ours set to 80 yesterday and I learned it's on the same fuse as my dryer, so I can't do laundry AND run the A/C. Fortunately around 8pm it cools off enough to open windows.
I haven't quite figured out what to do for my dogs here. We just moved here in May and have a great deal of humidity, which they aren't used to. We've been leaving the central fan on and a box fan in the kitchen, but the little guy is still crated for his safety, so I worry about him getting too hot.
usually 78. 77 at night (mainly because DD2's room gets really really hot).
DH always complains about being hot, but I guess I'm just used to it. I grew up in AZ and my parents rarely let us put the a/c below 78. Usually it was set to 80 during the day and 82 at night. So when DH tries to put the air on 76 at night, I'm the one complaining that I'm freezing!
We leave ours set at 85 during the day and have a little fan blowing toward our dog's crate. He hasn't died yet!
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