Getting old, getting cold

[kaisersozei]

68 year round. We supplement that with floor fans in the upstairs bedrooms (to drop the temp at night during the summer) and a gas fireplace in the living room (to raise the temp during the winter.)

I'm the only one in the house who is always comfortable. Even my teenagers are b1tch1ng in the summertime that it's too cold. Like Jamie, I pay the bills so I decide where the thermostat stays. Plus, I figure I paid my energy conservation dues when when I was growing up: we were poor and lived in a ranch style house. The only A/C was a window unit in my parent's bedroom that only got turned on at night. My mom hung a big woolen Army blanket in the middle of the hall to block off the rest of the house, and we all slept with our doors open. It was still probably about 80, but it felt relatively cool. In the winter, our only heat was pretty much just a woodstove, I think she kept the thermostat at 55 or something crazy.