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Thermostat "battle"
Where we live, it's HOT in the summer.. no shade over our house and it gets to 95-100 degrees. I feel comfortable with the thermostat set at 78 degrees. Anything above that and I'm hot.
My husband keeps putting the thermostat at 81 degrees. At this temperature, it's just too hot.I keep waking up in the middle of the night, and can't get a good night sleep. Can't even sleep with a sheet, even with a fan on me, and I'm one of the types that needs a blanket to sleep well.
My husband feels it's cold with the temperature at anything below 80. I have tried to talk to him about a compromise but he just keeps turning the thermostat up.
I can't wait for this summer to be over so I can sleep well again!!!
Ladies, what do you have your thermostat set at when you're home? I'm just curious. Am I crazy to want it a little cooler in the house?
Re: Thermostat "battle"
He can put another blanket on. There is only so much you can take off.
You win.
And it's not like we're talking 10 degrees. It's THREE.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
This made me smile. My husband likes 68 and I much prefer 73. Five degrees actually makes a big difference to me - at 68, my nose is running and I'm shivering even in long sleeves and pants.
But, these are rather different temperatures than 78 and 81! I would loooove our apartment that warm, but my husband would move out. He barely handles 72. I guess we all fight our thermostat wars.
We compromise by changing the temp a lot. If I'm home, it's set where I like it. When he comes home, he makes it a bit cooler. I do turn it down at night so he can sleep well. Trying to sleep when you're too hot is not fun and I try to respect that.
I'd be miserable at 68.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
We live in Houston, where it is hot, hotter, and death :-D LOL.
We keep the house at 78 during the day and at 75 during the night. FI would like it cooler, but since I don't like it much cooler, we compromise on it.
We live in the northwest..where it never gets super hot, but it does get warm in the summer...we turn our heat off in June and probably will turn it on at some point this month...therefor no battles (Im sure if we had AC that would be a different story), and we save a crapload of money by not running it at all.
I am the cold one in our house, and we usually just find ways to compromise. For sleeping if its too hot for H (the hot one) he can open a window OR turn on the fan but not both unless I am hot too....etc.
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I love it around 72-73. H would rather it be about 68. I usually win because he'll just complain it's "hot" and not touch the thermostat.
The other week we lost power, our house was in the 80s-90s. It was miserable. I don't see how you can do 78 or 81. I'd suffocate.
I would be dead in your house.
We keep our thermostat between 65-68 all year round. I hate being hot. I win the argument based on the fact that he can put on a sweatshirt if he's cold but there isn't much I can do when I'm dying of heat and already in shorts and a tank top.