What temp do you keep your winter thermostat at?

[mysteryowl]

inquiring minds want to know.

I remember when Pres. Carter had everyone turn down their thermostats in the winter, I can't remember what temp. He also kept the WH super cold, according to staff.

[rurallib]

1. 64 day, 57 night

[Faux pas]

2. ...

62-63. How about you?

[mysteryowl]

6. That is chilly.

We keep it at 67.

[Faux pas]

21. Lol

not for someone with Scandinavian and northern European ancestry

[mysteryowl]

25. I remember a show on TV explaining many Swedish parents

bundle their infants, put them in a carriage and leave them outside! For their health!

[Faux pas]

53. Oh

those crazy Swedes, huh? My Scandinavian roots are Norwegian.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. 68 during the day; 65 at night.

[RussellCattle]

4. Jimmy Carter said 68 degrees and that's where it has been since. Though as we....

.....are now quite a bit older and retired, we do wear a lot more clothes and watch teevee with a blanket.

[mysteryowl]

10. Really, 68 is what Carter said.

I vaguely remember the nation having a meltdown about keeping their home so cold.
Wimps.

[RussellCattle]

48. I'm embarrassed. I just checked and Carter said 65 degrees! I feel that we have been.....

.....cheating all these years. My wife would have never agreed to 65 so maybe that was our compromise.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I am awful apparently. I get super cold easily. 72 during the day. 68 at night.

[empedocles]

8. 72 if there's not sun, will go to 66 at night.

[2naSalit]

12. Well...

I'll be awful with you because that's exactly what I do.

[Joinfortmill]

18. 👍

[Laffy Kat]

47. I'm worse. The daytime temp. is 72 and night is 70.

Maybe because I'm from the south.

[ChazII]

58. We can be awful together. Because I keep it at 72 during the day

too.

[peacefreak2.0]

7. 65 during the day and

60 at night. And lots of layers.

[Squeaky41]

9. Thermostat

68 all day and night

CA Sierra Foothills

78 in summer with A/C

[dhol82]

11. Don't have a house any more but when I did it was 68/63. Electricity on LI is damned expensive.

I’m now in an apartment and the heat is so hot that I never use the blower and keep the window open year round. I live in NYC.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. I've read about that in NYC!

I'm sure that I'd keep the windows open too.

[dhol82]

23. I've lived here since 1966. There is always too much heat.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. 68

[mysteryowl]

17. 68 is what Stephen Colbert reported was his household number.

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. That's interesting

He's a good man.

[mysteryowl]

22. He did a hilarious bit about it

he was yelling that someone was messing with the heat and he had to keep turning it back to 68.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. It's set at 59F for me.

The heater rarely turns on unless outside temps are in the teens or lower. (I might be a "bad neighbor" since I'm surely a heat-parasite of the units on each side of me.)

Wearing multiple layers while indoors right now, as usual in the Winter.

[mysteryowl]

24. Your are the chillist of all so far.

I have a friend that spent time in Ireland and she said they kept their homes so cold you could see your breath!
Rural living.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. Not that low for me yet, but...

... I had my mitochondrial DNA tested a few years ago and they're about the most heat-producing (inefficient) around. So my mother's distant maternal ancestry likely lived near Siberia or wherever.

It helps explain why my mother and all my siblings would be hot while our father was cold! Probably also why, despite me being a speedster as a kid, I wasn't a good distance runner.

My ex-wife also loved to cuddle in the Winter, but would jab me with an elbow in the Summer. Lol.

[Still Sensible]

15. 67 n/t

[doc03]

16. 71 degrees nt

[OregonBlue]

26. We keep it at 68 day and 64 night but always

wear a sweater or fleece during the day.

[dweller]

28. 3 Dog

and 3 log ...
thermostat ?
what’s that?

✌🏻

[Yonnie3]

29. My country estate (shack) out in the boondocks is set at 40

If I want warmer (always), I put wood in the stove. Sometimes I strive for Miami in August (without the humidity). The nice thing about the point source of heat is, if I feel chilly I can move closer and if I feel hot I can turn on the ceiling fan and store the heat in the concrete slab.

In the city it is usually 68, but may be +/- 2 degrees. The thermostat is mounted on a masonry wall that causes it to lag behind the temperature in other areas of the house.

[Ohiogal]

30. 67 day 65 night

[blueinredohio]

31. 72 day and night.

[Wolf Frankula]

32. 69 and I just leave it there.

Wolf

[dhill926]

33. 68 during the day...off at night...

then again we live in SoCal by the coast...

[Liberty Belle]

34. 72 day, 68 night. I have disk injuries that hurt if I get too cold.

Occasionally I'll crank it up to 74 for a few minutes if I've been out in cold weather, just to get warmed up fast.

Thankfully we have zoned heating so I can just my office and a room next door, not the entire house when I'm here working alone during the day.

[trackfan]

35. I have no heat.

I'm in Los Angeles. Even when I did have heat, I never ran it at night; just bundled up.

[alphafemale]

36. I would prefer it OFF with the windows open

Apt mate does not agree and the thermostat is next to his room.

My vents are turned off at my end.

[NRaleighLiberal]

37. we are at 69, all year long

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. 68, usually.

It's an old, drafty house and the insulation isn't the best, so 68 can feel a bit nippy, but if I get cold I just wear more clothes, so it's pretty tolerable.

[roamer65]

39. 69

I upped this year one degree higher.

[SouthernIrish]

40. 63 year round

Hot and humid south

[broiles]

41. 78 day, 70 night. I'm cold natured.

But I have a big solar array to compensate.

[Ron Obvious]

42. 68/60

We love thick blankets. Much more comfortable than thin blankets and the heat on at night.

[ironflange]

43. 21 degrees

Whatever the heck that is in Fahrenheit.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

44. Almost 70F. nt

[ironflange]

45. Thanks, I was just too lazy to figure it out

[First Speaker]

46. 62

I have a great comforter I use at night, and a smaller one I drape over me to read or watch TV. Works for me...

[3catwoman3]

49. 60 at night, and between...

...66-68 during the day, depending on how cold it is. On really cold and really windy days, we may have to nudge to 69-70. In the greater Chicago area, we have some pretty Arctic temperatures, and some pretty ferocious windchills at times.

Whe we lived in Denver, one of my husband’s friends was particularly tight with a nickel. He kept his house at 55 and wore extra sweaters to keep his heating bill low. My husband thought this sounded like a great idea. I told him that if he wanted to continue living with me, this would NOT be happening. It didn’t.

I love a heating pad on my feet in the winter.

[ailsagirl]

50. When I was working it was off during the day

At night, 68.

[RockRaven]

51. 68 around wakeup time, 65 during midday, 68 in the evening, and 60 overnight

And it virtually never kicks on overnight. If we keep it 68 approaching bedtime, the house is insulated well enough to stay above 60 until the threshold changes back upwards in the morning.

We used to keep midday at 60 or even off, but because of covid we are working from home now so we set a higher lower-limit.

[MissB]

52. 70 day and night. Our furnace

is always moving air around. The heating part of it kicks on now and again quietly in the background but the fan is always (also quietly) on and moving the air about. We had this furnace put in a few years back- it’s a multi stage- and now the former hot spots are no longer. The house is just one giant 70 degree comfort zone, no matter the level. Well, the basement is actually 3 degrees cooler. Used to be like 15 degrees cooler but we just installed a new garage door and viola! suddenly it’s only 3 degrees cooler than the upper two levels.

Our winter time heating bills also were dramatically reduced. Our worst winter bill approached $200 before we replaced the system and now it barely goes over $100 at the peak.

[AwakeAtLast]

54. 68, but

When we renovated this house we put spray foam insulation in, so we are quite warm at that temperature. We are all electric, and our total house electric bill right now is $170/month. In our previous bigger house with rolled insulation, between electric and gas we would shell out almost $300.

[tblue37]

55. 69. I have old cats. Otherwise I'd go lower.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Around 70

Old Honeywell, so it's hard to tell if it's 69 or 70.

[lunatica]

57. 61 but I have a gas fireplace, lots of throws and blankets and

and floor space heaters including a bathroom space heater. I get pretty acclimated to the cold.

The electric company here actually sent me a $25 check as a reward for keeping my usage down. It was a pleasant surprise.