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When one spouse wants to jack up the A/C, the other wants to turn it down. Mild-mannered helpmeets in March and April become ferocious defenders of the dial in July and August.

Researchers who study sex differences agree that when it comes to temperature, it seems women are from Venus and men are from Planet Freon.

This is so true in our apartment. We've agreed on around 75 degrees. I can survive at that temp. I suppose, while she thinks it's perfect, even a bit chilly. And let me tell you, at the cost of electricity for even keeping it at or around 75, I'd have that thing cranked down to 72 or 70...but I digress.

How goes the electronic temp battle in your home?

I'm pretty good with most temperatures. Had an awesome roommate that liked to sleep without blankets with the thermostat to 80. I was fine to that and got used to it after about a day.

I've also slept with no heat at -14F and had my top two covers freeze solid. I handled that fine, too.

I'm pretty much fine with hot or cold temperatures. Cold annoys me more, especially anything under 20 below when there is wind. I do prefer a bit of a warmer place during the winter, although our place stays about 55-58.

Leah is much pickier than I about temperature and seems to always be overheating or freezing. It might be a body fat thing.



What I CAN'T handle is swimming in cold temperatures. Anything under 90 and I just can't handle swimming for long at all. Below 85 and I'm about to die after just a few minutes. 95 is about ideal for me. Of course, this is Montana and the water isn't as warm here. I swam at Daytona and it was 75 and I was fine for quite some time.

I don't know how you could sleep in a room that warm. The colder the better at night.

I'm happy between 78 and 80. I find 76 to be too cold. Plus, at 82 with a ceiling fan, it feels a few degrees cooler.

I almost always leave the window open during the winter. Nothing beats a 20 degree night.

GQfluffy wrote:I don't know how you could sleep in a room that warm. The colder the better at night.

It was kind of odd. No covers and underwear only, which made it kind of awkward when women came over. Main thing was that it made it hard to wake up...just wanted to keep on sleeping. In general I agree with you.

The kid was a Korean who had acclimated to PHX. I suspect he'd do well with TUS!

CO777ER wrote:I almost always leave the window open during the winter. Nothing beats a 20 degree night.

GQfluffy wrote:I don't know how you could sleep in a room that warm. The colder the better at night.

I like the colder the better. My room is in the basement and I have a fan in my room pretty much year round, and I love sleeping in a room thats around 65 or so. I pissed off the ex last summer in DC when I cranked up the ac in the hotel room while she took a nap, she made me call for more blankets

I find 75 to be a good setting. It's cool enough not to be chilly year 'round.

For sleeping, room temperature needs to be 70 or below. I've also found that at temps near 60, I tend to enter a hibernation-like state.

I like it at 72F (22C). In winter I will leave the sliding glass door open to sleep in the "ice box."

I hate sleeping in anything over 75F (24C).

CO777ER wrote:I almost always leave the window open during the winter. Nothing beats a 20 degree night.

I'd be willing to bet you dono't get many colds or the flu, either.

GQfluffy wrote:I don't know how you could sleep in a room that warm. The colder the better at night.

I too agree with this. I keep the thermostat set at 65.

One of the worst things is working in an office with no windows when the A/C is not working. Trying to concentrate when it's just 78 with no air circulation at all is miserable. I'd rather be outside at 100 degrees with a light breeze, as long as the humidity is low.

Each room in my condo has a thermostat. Fortunately for me as my father keeps the one in his bedroom and bath cranked up @90F. I can't even breathe in there.

I keep the living area at @ 70.

My bedroom and bath are in the 60 range. Right now they are off. And will remain off until sometime in October. I keep a window open 24/7. For the fresh air and for the cool air. Can't sleep in a hot room. I have a ceiling fan on 24/7 - 365. Just to keep air moving. Generally it's on low, but when it's hot - like the last several months (80F + in Anchorage/South Central Alaska) I let it burn . . . I get if it gets too hot.

If the wife wants to turn up the heat in the cold month, I just supply the chemicals to heat the air under the covers...


That is usually when I get a pillow crashing down on me...

ANCFlyer wrote:I let it burn . . . I get if it gets too hot.

Lots of things make you grumpy thou

At night I prefer it to be cool - it's much more pleasant to be under a warm duvet when it it cool in the room.

That said, I prefer the heating in our house to come on in plenty of time to warm the house for when I get up in winter. Nothing worse than leaving aforementioned warm bed to be shivering all the way to the shower, and then to be shivering once the cold blast hits when the shower is shut off!

Whenever possible, I sleep in a bedroom that's 65 degrees or cooler. If I get too warm, I wake up with a killer headache and feel like I've got a hangover. And if I just had a "using dream," that can be terrifying. In the winter months, I keep the apartment at 68 degrees. In the summer, no warmer than 80 degrees. The AC only goes on when the interior temp goes above 80, which has only happened twice this season.

My parents are classic thermostat warriors. Mom likes the bedroom cool and dad likes it hot. During the day, it's the opposite; mom likes it warm and dad likes it cool. Go figure.

Not too bothered about cold temperatures - I only draw the line when I wake up in bed and can see my own breath. Went most of two winters ago without any heating at all in Uni, mainly to save on money

This past winter at my own house was awful though; so hot that I comfortably slept with the window wide open in freezing conditions outside. At home I live in the same house as my elderly grandparents, who have the downstairs (where the thermostat is located) and like to have the heating at about 27-29C. Just before the winter we had cavity wall insulation and enough lagging in the roofspace to lose a flock of sheep in, so that means the heat can't get out of the house, but that it can pass upstairs to my bit of the house - meaning I boil whilst they turn it up a bit more and maybe even put the gas fire on as well! Whilst staying at my girlfriends though it's a bit different - middle of nowhere on a peninsular into the Atlantic Ocean, crap boiler and an expensive and crap fuel oil heating system, meaning it's normally chilly even in the summer. I don't mind though - I'm happy to sleep starkers ontop of the covers whilst she's wrapped up in about four blankets - I just don't feel cold that badly.


Dan