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We're well into fall at this point and its getting colder. How warm/cold do you keep your house?
We keep it at about 67 degrees, unless I am feeling really really cold. Then I might kick it up to 70 degrees until I feel warmer.
We used to keep the house cooler 62-65 degrees, but we keep it warmer now that we have a puppy.
We keep it around 66 degrees; although, when we get our next bill, we may be dropping it down a bit and wearing more clothes and blankets. It just costs way to much to heat our home.
68 now that I live in a new and energy efficient house. The last two winters I lived in a 100+ year old windbox with no insulation or weather proofing. The first cold month came and went for my 1,000 square foot place..... gas bill was $270!!! Yea, not okay. After that I kept the temp at 58 degrees and got really used to hanging out under blankets. It was pretty miserable.
If I had my way our house would be in the 80's. I'm always freezing and my hands/feet are usually like ice. DH gets hot rather easily so we keep it just above in the mid 70's.
DH is always hot, and I'm always cold. So we settle on about 73-75 on the air and we have a tower fan that he can point on himself if he gets hot. We try not to turn the heat on or only use a teeny bit in the winter (we're even luckier now and don't plan to touch the heat in our new FL home!).
Well, if i were in charge of the thermostat, I would have it set between 73-77. I'm always cold. But ole boyfriend won't let me turn the heat up past 68 and that makes me cranky, but then I use my Snuggie and it is OK - I guess.
We keep it at about 64 degrees downstairs and try not to turn on the heat upstairs until the very last minute. We have oil which gets really expensive. We try to conserve as much as we can but sometimes when i'm at home alone I put it to 70 mwa haa haaa...
We don't mind the cold for the most part so we generally just keep the heat off (unless it gets absolutely freezing cold) so it's really whatever temperature it chooses to be. Lately here it's been between 70 and 75 during the days in our house but when it gets colder it'll probably be around 64 or 65. We'd rather put on tons of clothes/blankets than pay a high electric bill though.
I still live with my parents and it's usually 50-55... not kidding. It's redicuously cold. My dad's theory is that we might as well use the blankets we have instead of paying for more heat haha... love my dad.
FI keeps his place around 70 and I can't WAIT to move in in March!!
@CorgiTales:I know what you mean! The house I used to live in was really nice, but we had a tiny budget. So we kept the house between 62 - 64. But my bedroom was in the basement, and it would be around 57 degrees there. It was fine if you slept under 5 blankets (I did!) but I HATED getting dressed/undressed!
Now my apartment is actually pretty comfortable at 62 or 64. In Montana, it just gets way too expensive to keep it any warmer! Love my blankets and slippers.
I'm crazy because I keep the AC & the ceiling fans on all year long basically, lol. I love being cold and then snuggling up under a blanket. For me to get cold enough to turn the heat on would mean a blizzard had rolled into Georgia (very unlikely!). Ok, I might be exaggerating just a tiny bit, but you get my point, hahaha!
58 at night, 65 during the day. The kid gets too hot at night with just her swaddle and her long sleeve onsie.
@piglet_625: That is my parents philosophy also!! They always told me to put on a sweater!
OMG you people are crazy!!!! Our house is at 80 during the day, but we put it down to 78 when we got to bed. It's set to 82 when we're not home.
We keep it between 68-72. At night it drops down to 68 and kicks up to 72 about an hour before we wake up. During the day its set to 80 but it never actually goes that high. When we get home from work its normally around 74.
FI is always colder than I am. He says that I run abnormally hot. I would be fine with it set to 68 all year round but he'll literally shiver. Pansy! (kidding!)
We live in an apartment where heat and hot water are included (yay!!!), but we still keep it around 68 unless it's freezing outside. I turned it on for the first time tonight since the current temp outside is 29 degrees!!!
@In the media: I am the same way, FI is always wicked hot, and I am always cold. I will wear fleece pants, socks and sweatshirts and use my snuggie so that we can both be comfortable.
I had to turn the heat on tonight for the first time this year!
@bpcmarj: Us too! That's why FI keeps it at 70 cause he doesn't pay for it!
OMG I could never live in any of your houses! I would freeze!! My parents keep their house at 78/79 and FI keeps his at 78 and turns it off when he's at work during the day. If it is colder than 75 in a room I have to find the nearest blanket or sweater... Guess that's why I live in FL
And in the winter we rarely use heat only a few weeks out of the year in that case we keep it at 68 and I walk around bundled up lol
I keep it at 20C when we are home/the kid is home, so I think that's about 70-71F.
overnight & while we are gone it's down to 60-65 (depending on how cold it is outside)
I hardly EVER turn on the heat! lol. We are on a basement level, between several units so most of the time it's really not too bad in here. Every once in awhile I'll turn the heat on to the "comfort Zone" which I think is around 70? but as soon as it's heated up I turn it right back off since the apt hold heat well. = )
Before our pup 60. When we got our pup 65 during the day and dropped to 58 when we sleep.
Gas is WAY too expensive. We just bundle up with fleece and warm socks and blankets. We love to snuggle!
We put plastic up on the windows and it helps a TON on the heat bills. The first year we did that it cut our heat bill almost by a third.
Haha. You're in GEORGIA! You don't have winters! :P
well dh and I have a wood stove so our house usually is 80+ we never burn oil unless it's the dead of winter and we don't feel like getting the stove going, but we have a little log cabin that has a open floor plan, so out heats super fast, and the wood stove makes you have to open the windows when it's a blizzard outside sometimes lol
Holy hot! My husband and I were just talking about how we couldn't sleep last night b/c it was warmer than 60 in our house and we were dying of heat!
When people are over, we usually keep it around 67, but if it's just us, it will usually never go higher than 64.
I'm in an apartment with heat included (yay!) I can't figure out how to permantently change the heat box (and I'm worried the landlord will lock it up so we can't adjust), but it's set to 72. I think it feels colder than that.... but who knows?
We turn it down to 60 during the day when we’re not home, and up to 65-68 when we get home in the evening – then back down at night. Winter heating bills are $150+ each month keeping the house that “warm”. I live in fleece pants and a sweater - also under a blanket while watching tv from Oct-May.
We plan to purchase an apartment building in the next couple of years and having paid through the nose for New England utility rates, I would *never* pay my tenant’s utilities – I’d have to take out a second mortgage on the place if someone kept their apartment at 75! 
lol
As a total aside. Sophomore year of college I shared a house with 3 other girls.
The one girl (who was always late with her share of the bills!) always turned the heat up to 80+ but she will walk around in a freaking tank top and short shorts then open the windows because she's hot.
Stupid girl who didn't care because her grandpa paid all her bills.
This post is so funny because it's still like 90 degrees down here. My AC runs practically all day still.
In any case, we like it to be about 68 during the summer, and about 72 during the winter, although that rarely requires turning the heat on.
My husband and I both prefer cooler weather. And we cannot sleep if it's hot!! We keep the a/c in the summer around 70 and the heat during the winter at about 67. Anything between 65-70 is good for us. :)
I'm in Canada so we go by celcius. We usually keep it at about 17 degrees and sometimes bump it up to about 20 when we're home at night and it's chilly. I think that's about 62-68 fahrenheit. In the summer months the heat is completely turned off and by fall/spring we usually keep it about 10-15 so about 50-59.
Correct me if my conversions are off!
@lilybee - I want to come stay with you! 80 is more like it!
Me and FI are so cheap (ha!) that we keep the temp at a very cold 65-67degrees. I think the hair on my arms is growing longer in order to insulate me! 
The highes I keep it in the winter is 67 during the day and 52 at night (LOVE my down comforter). I grew up in a cold house and have no problem with keeping it that way. I"m way more comfortable being cold than hot. You can always put more clothes on but can only take so much off. I'm miserable when I'm hot. Which is why I'll never live in the south. :)
When we're home, we keep it at 70, but we have a system that lets us program when we want it to cool off or heat up. So in the early morning (when we're home and getting ready for the day), it's at 70, during the day it's set to 63 (when we're not home), in the evening it's at 70 (when we're home and up and about), and overnight it drops to 60. On the weekends we keep it at 70 all day since we're often in and out. You can override the system to be whatever you want it to be if you're randomly home one afternoon or whatever.
We have to move soon which is TRAGIC and I hope wherever we go next has this wonderful programmable system; I'm hooked!
All you need is a programmable thermostat if you have central air. Less than $50 at Home Depot/Lowes.
That's also a way to save cost that most people don't know about.
Turning your heat OFF when you leave the house is the worst thing you can do.
Holy moly I would be an ice cube if i lived with most of you guys!!! We keep ours at 70, but if I had it my way we'd be at about 74. Even at 70 I'm usually wearing socks, a sweater, and cuddling with a down blanket. I'm always freezing!!!
@Gerbera:Oh goodness. I wouldn't be able to deal with that. To me, if its winter, of COURSE you'd be wearing a sweater! (unless, of course, you live in the deep south). I had a roommate kind of like that...it the winter she'd be in a t-shirt and would rather turn up the heat than put on a sweatshirt, and in the summer she'd put on a sweatshirt instead of turning off the AC!
I just unpacked my winter clothes. Now my drawers look like this:
One drawer of t-shirts/long underwear
One drawer of wool socks/sweatshirts
One drawer of sweaters
One drawer of lingerie/outside winter gear!
One drawer of hats/gloves/scarves
We're very, very lucky to live in a mild climate and in a modern eco-friendly house that is highly resilient to temperature fluctuations. We've never needed A/C in the summer, and we never need to turn on our heat in the winter. The house is kept warm by blowing air across the hot water pipes, which are themselves super-efficient tankless hot water. It's kind of amazing, but our house just stays comfortable without us doing anything. As for the temperature, the thermostat usually says around 68-72, depending on which floor of the house you're on and what time of day it is.
Honestly sometimes I find myself wishing it were chillier so I'd have an excuse to turn on our beautiful fireplace. :)
[ETA] @Gerbera: OMG I had roommates like that too. I swear, one month our heating bill was over $400 for a three-bedroom house. They liked to walk around in their underwear in February when it was below freezing outside.
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