Do You Know Anyone Who Refuses to Turn on the Heat or the AC Until a Certain Date Regardless of the Current Conditions?

I live with one too. He doesn't want to turn on the heat before November (but I turn it on when it gets cold anyway). Lots of potential for conflict, and lots of clandestine turning at the thermostat.

We don't even have AC because we live in a place where you really didn't need it before the 1990s.

You should divorce him, OP. Divorce divorce divorce!

My mother never uses central air between September and May nor opens a window if the thermometer is over 63 degrees.

It doesn't make any sense. If it's cold in the house that's why you have a heater. There may be plenty of unseasonably warm days in February where it doesn't run that much so who cares if you have to run it sometimes in October?

My super.

Not sure where you live R4 but there are never unseasonably warm February days in Michigan.

That’s just stupid.

Me. I broke today. The house had maintained between 75-70 degrees for a week until it dropped to 40 the night before and I suffered all day yesterday. I turned it on this morning when I woke up to a 60 degree house.

I hate going from AC to heat. It seems unfair and my penny-pinching WASPy nature rears it’s ugly head.

Growing up in the seventies in Baltimore, my mother kept the thermostat set to 60 in the winter. We were not allowed to wear our winter coats in the house either. Being constantly cold in the winters of my youth must have conditioned me, now as an adult I am always the hottest one in the room and like the temperature colder than everyone else. ,

Me. Never heat before Nov 1 and never AC before June 1.

What is the thought process? You have a climate control system which is designed to make you comfortable. Assuming you don’t have to go down to the basement to shovel coal into a furnace, why be uncomfortable?

Me as well.

I always tough it out for a few extra weeks on either end. It helps "thicken/thin out my blood" for the rest of the season.

I never have the heat on overnight except in extreme cold.

[quote]What is the thought process?

Saving money makes me more happier than optimal temperature.

But it’s just pennies.

I live in Southern Ontario and have a friend who lives in a condo - they won't turn the heat on until October 28th. He had to buy heaters for his place. Rip off!!

Yes - 10 years with a Trini landlord in her own brownstone in Brooklyn. The heat did not come on until Nov 1 at the earliest and never full blast. Previously I lived in a building with an absentee corporate slumlord type ownership and we enjoyed "ghetto heating". This is full blast heating, so strong the windows could and needed to be opened on the bitterest winter days. I was told this was a traditional method of keeping things "tamped down" amongst us poors. Energy was cheaper, obviously, in those days.

[quote] Growing up in the seventies in Baltimore, my mother kept the thermostat set to 60 in the winter. We were not allowed to wear our winter coats in the house either.

What in the hell was wrong with her, R9?

That sounds like child abuse.

The updated NEST app sends you a notification if someone adjusts the thermostat physically and not through the app.

R17 She grew up poor and was and still is extremely frugal (although is now very well off due to her frugality.)

Send that fucker packing!

We will most likely be air-conditioning on Thanksgiving and Christmas again this year in SoCal, & especially next week with the return of the Santa Anas--90s + . . . I remember as a kid that baking all day for the holidays didn't heat up the house like it does now . . .

So true, R21!

I've been known to sneak changes to the thermostat when visiting friends. 79 degrees is just too hot indoors in the Texas heat.

What is the context, OP? Is your house insulated? What is the temperature inside going to fall down to? Do you have a fireplace? Do you have a lovely bed to cocoon in? Are you going to have hot sex tonight? Will you sleep in each other's arms?

Go away, frau.

I don't turn on the heat until it's fairly chilly . There is no reason why you can't pile on the blankets and wear an extra sweater. What I hate are the "I'm always cold " Nazis. These people are usually women and will throw princess fits if the office isn't turned into some sort of disgusting greenhouse. What these narcissistic pro heat types miss is that you can always put on a sweater if you feel cold. At a certain point you can't remove any more clothes.