Military Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Here we go again
Ok so once again our A/C went out and it is 82? in our house. I can't hardly breathe and I am pissed at the landlord
Re: Here we go again
This. And then tomorrow close everything up. If you have blinds and curtains close them! This should help keep it cool. Don't turn the oven on if you can help it.
ETA: I didn't realize it was only 82* . My gosh our house is that temp on a regular basis because I'm cheap an refuse to run the AC the majority of the time.
We operate on central fan on circulation and the rooms with ceiling fans have them on all the time, extra fans in our bedroom at night. Windows are always open in the evenings. I can get my house down to 64 by 5am if I open windows and the delta breeze is good.
Only 82? Windows open and fans. You'll live.
You realize a/c is a luxury and they are not required to provide it by law in most places, right? Heat is a necessity, a/c is not.
So you can breathe pretty well then? Sorry, it's been one of those days and double negatives are a pet peeve of mine.
I grew up without A/C. Get a fan.
Yep! Same here. Grew up without A/C, just a fan.
This was my biggest fear when we bought our house. Just because its two stories and all. I'm really proud, last summer our highest bill was only $145ish, I was so proud that I was able to keep it cool enough without having a huge bill!
I have yet to turn on the A/C but I still think I need your skills ErikandAfton! What is your secret to a two story and only $145 at the highest?!
67/200
Learning from my mother!
But honestly, I open all the windows in the evenings when it starts to get cool. We thankfully have windows in all the right places and can get a really good cross breeze going. We have been really lucky with the weather here lately so its cooling off a lot in the evenings. We leave 4 windows downstairs open and all the windows upstairs when we go to bed. I leave all the doors upstairs open so that we get a good cross breeze going up there too. In the mornings, other than my office where our cat's litter box is, I close all the doors upstairs and the windows. Curtains and blinds too. Downstairs all blinds and curtains get closed and the remaining windows too. It was 89 here today, and 78 in my house when I got home. Its not awful, and I camp out under the ceiling fan in the living room when I get home.
Oh and I run the fan on our heat/ac unit on circulation. It helps.
To be fair, OP grew up in SW Louisianna where nearly everyone has A/C. I have cousins who live in dinky little fish camps and house boats who have A/C because 98* with nearly 100% humidity when not raining if farking hot.
My thermostat is set on 78* right now. It's ben in the low 90's here with high humitdity. I never set it below 80 in the summer.
Photo bomb, yeah!
Growing up in Colorado, we very rarely turned on a/c even when it was hot. And even then it was just during the heat of the day. DH is from AZ, so constant use of a/c. Where we are is super effing humid, and at a temp where I would have never turned it on in CO I have no argument when H turns it on. We do keep it at a higher temp (I think maybe 76? 78?) but with constant ceiling fans on.
Humidity makes it a whole different ball game. Give me 100 degrees dry hear any day over swamp like humidity conditions. Yuck.
I changed my name