RANDOM: At what TEMPERATURE, is your thermostat set?

[Corie]

Just curious...We keep our thermostat set pretty low.
We live in Texas though and it gets very hot. But our
last month electric bill was $400. Crazy!
We have our thermostat set at 73 degrees.

What do most people have it set?

[kelly ann]

Around 75-76 degrees in the summer and I still roam around in a fleece bathrobe on some evenings!

Wow...that is a high bill. Do you have any ceiling fans? We only have one but we have a very open floor plan and it moves the air around quite a lot.

[aa2mama]

I keep the thermostat set at 74 during the day. We usually turn the a/c off overnight and just have the ceiling fans on. I find it a little bit warm but bearable. I think I'd swallow my teeth on a $400 electric bill!

[Toba]

We live at the Jersey Shore (so we have some hot days) and keep our central air on 76 usually. We have a ceiling fan in our kitchen, foyer and each bedroom upstairs and they are almost always on ... it does help quite a bit. Interestingly, we keep our thermostat on about 70 - 72 in the winter.


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Noah Nevan, March 12, 2004
*the light of my life*

[JBaxter]

We do 78 w/ ceiling fans. It works great. Nathan is usually in just a cloth diaper and maybe a t-shirt most of the day.

[Elilly]

I set ours at 78. My dad is a wholesaler for furnaces and A/C and studies show that this is the most optimal temp for energy savings (so he says).

[DebbieJ]

In the Chicago burbs, we keep it about 76-78. Sometimes DH knocks it down to 74 because his office gets really hot with all the computers and equipment in there (he does sound editing work from home).

We can bump it to 80 at night because we all sleep in our room where we have the one ceiling fan. :)

~ deb
DS born at home 12/03

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[nov02mom]

My DH sets ours at 72 (we're in HOT NC!) but I move it to 74 during the day because I'm more cold natured.

[caridura]

I hear ya. Our last electric bill was almost $300. Insane!! And it only gets hotter in Aug and Sept here. :( But, it's SO hot and I refuse to be sweaty in my own house.

We keep ours at 75-76 degrees during the day and 73-74 at night (we like to sleep bundled up).

[mudder17]

Summer: 78
Winter: 68


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[alleyoop]

We are in Austin, so I hear you! We survive at 77 day and night. However, when I was PG, it was more like 73-74. Some days I bump it down if I am cleaning or being really active in the house. I am with a PP, I hate being sweaty in my own home!

[californiagirl]

We have no a/c, because we live in Northern California, where you don't need a/c. Which explains why I have to keep the baby's asthma meds in the refrigerator because they don't like the nearly 100 degree temperature my kitchen has been reaching every day this week. But $400 worth of electricity would last me nearly a year!

[tina-t]

76 degrees for both day and night. It has been more than 100 degress outside for the past 6 days!

[Melanie]

74 in the summer. If it so much as gets to 75 I can feel it! I've heard that 78 thing before...or even so far as to say we really can't feel a difference below 78. Apparently they were not talking about me.

I hate summer.

[Marisa6826]

Um, as Jamie can attest, I like it cold enough that you can hang meat in my livingroom. ;)

Our thermostat for a/c is on the second floor so it defaults at 72 (as per my programming), but I usually knock it down to 70 or 71 to keep it comfy upstairs when we're home. Unfortunately, because the house is so old (70+ yrs), the circulation isn't great - which means it's 66-68 downstairs.

It's around 70 in the winter too.

We have an equal payment plan with our electric and gas company - approx $300/mo. Big old house, not great insulation and in desperate need of new windows. *sigh*.

-m

[MelissaTC]

I live in NC and keep the thermostat between 75-78 during the day, unless it is steaming outside. We seem to luck out because of the way the sun hits our home and how it faces out, the downstairs stays relatively cool. I keep the upstairs between 73-75 because it gets warmer up there.

[cdlamis]

WOW- we must be weird. We live in HOT Arizona and only have it at 80 or so during the day and 78 at night. I guess 80 compared to 115 degrees feels so cold to us though! Yes, it was 115 today. :(

Daniella
Mom to Julia 6-13-02
and Isabella 12-18-04

[JMarie]

Okay, we're really out there. In the summer it's set at 68 degrees. In the winter it's 74-76. Granted, we're in a condo so we have the insulation of the unit above us, but I just can't sleep when it's higher than 70 in the summer. Winter is another story.

Jennifer
Mom to Aidan Christopher
01/28/03

[lisaE]

Right there with ya, Corie. Our bill was $375 last month. DH likes it COLD in the house, so we keep ours at about 70 during the day and 68 at night. Plus he works from home so we both are here in different rooms using electricity all day, every day.

I almost fainted when we got our bill. We just switched to Reliant Energy so I was expecting much less than that.

[lisams]

Ours is set at 82 right now and we usually turn it to around 80 at night. Maybe it's because we don't have the humidity that the 80s seem comfortable? It's just so hot though, I don't remember summers feeling this way. It was 105 at 9:30 this morning. That is just wrong! I can't wait for October.

[jillc]

Hi Daniella,

We're in AZ, too, and we do the exact same thing - 79 or 80 during the day & 78 at night. Ceiling fans are always on, too.

As much as I'm so sick of this heat during the day, I still manage to get chilly watching t.v. at night & have to snuggle under a blanket. Who'd have thought I'd be chilly at 78? ;)

Best,
J

[mykidzmom]

We are very hot natured in my family. We live in Tennesse...so our summers get very hot and humid. We always keep our thermostat set at 70. We like it very cool.

[cilantromapuche]

Our thermostat is 73 in summer and 65 in winter (for some weird reason I react to heat in the winter and swell) and like Marisa we pay about $300 on budget (and my house isn't big, old or drafty). In upstate NY we get the worst of everything: hot, humid summers and cold, freezing winters. I hate it and my favorite seasons (fall, spring) are so short you miss them if you blink. *sigh*

Christine

[apriltwinmom]

We keep it at 74. Our bills would be through the roof if we set it any lower!

Great post, I am enjoying reading what everyone else sets theirs at.

:) Rachel

[hez]

I can't believe you all convinced your families to let you set it that warm (76-78). I had to fight DH to get it to 76 in the summer. And even that's too cold for me :) It's at 72ish (or lower) in the winter. I don't mind putting on extra layers then, but it's crazy that I'll be in sweats in the middle of July b/c DH won the thermostat war.

[LD92599]

Summer: 74 at night; central air is turned off upstairs during the day except during nap time. Central air is turned off at night downstairs...but it's 75-75 during the day.

Winter: leave upstairs furnace off as much as possible (esp w. heat rising, it's not so bad!) and downstairs set to about 68.

We're in NJ.

Laura
mom to William

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[caridura]

It must be the dry heat then. It's unbearably HUMID here (FL), so there is no way I could live with 80 degrees inside. In the early AM it is sweaty outside before the sun is even out! :(

[khalloc]

I live in Vermont. Our thermostat is at usually at 55 degrees from about May thru September. Obviously we don't have central a/c, nor do we need it. In the winter we normally have the heat go up to 68 when we are home, at night and when we are at work it goes back down to 55. We are expecting our first child in November though so I think we will have to have it at 70 whenever we are home.

We do have a large window AC that we use if we need it in the summer downstairs, and we have a small one in our bedroom. We dont use it all the time though. In the winter we normally spend about $300 a month on heat. We heat on propane which also does our hot water and cooking.