Yes…and keep the doors to your kitchen and bathroom sink cabinets…open.
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62 at night, 67 during the day (weekdays) and I have a small space heater under my desk I can turn on if I feel cold. My house is on single thermostat so makes no sense to heat up the whole place. 70 if the whole family is here.
FWIW I get and agree with the whole “put a sweater on” but I don’t really see a huge difference in my gas bill when I set the thermostat at 67 v 70.
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It all depends… if your concern is the pipes in the walls or under the sink that can be a useful strategy but heating your house to 100 won’t prevent frozen pipes in a crawlspace. More effective is letting the faucets run at a slow drip.
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64 during the day and 58 at night. I am always warm. If you’re cold, put on some socks and a sweater!
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Yeah I’m not sure why that doesn’t apply here! 
Maybe it would be even colder up there without the rising heat!
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I grew up with my dad always saying, “Who do you think I am, Thomas Edison? Turn off that light!” or “Turn down/up the thermostat, money doesn’t grow on trees!” Everything in our house was always about waste/cost, so I got used to being cold in the winter and hot in the summer (we had fans, no A/C). I guess I still think about it that way although, as @Mashinations posted, the few degrees probably doesn’t make a whole lot of difference. Hard to shake that internal scolding voice, though.
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We keep it at 70 during the day (we are both retired), cooler at night. I am bundled up.
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I’m anemic, so 67 during the day is plenty cold enough for me! (we’re also in Georgia, where the temps are just kept hotter all year round). However, I do know some people who icebox their houses during the summer! We don’t do that.
I agree. Our ICF house was built on an insulated slab, so we’re not too concerned about the house. At one former house we had a pipe that ran through an unfinished basement garage freeze, but fortunately it didn’t burst.
Most houses here are built on slab. For a while, the largest tract builder in the area put tankless water heaters on the outside of their houses. That caused a lot of problems and homeowners would use hair dryers to thaw the pipes.
I keep it at 63* all of the time in the winter. It takes too long to warm up and I leave at 7:50, come home for lunch at 12:30, then H is home at 3:30. Just leave it as cool as I can stand it. But, we don’t have a heat source in our bedroom and the kitchen, so those rooms are colder.
Summer I keep it at 79*. Sometimes at night, if the A/C isn’t running 24-7, I’ll kick it down a degree or two, so there’s cold air blowing on us as we fall asleep. We do have heat pump vents in our bedroom/kitchen but I don’t use that for heat in the winter. At the top of 10.5 foot ceilings they wouldn’t do much anyway.
And all of this for a $400-600 utility bill in the winter in the south! My neighbors have bills over $1000. This does include elec, water/sewer, gas, and trash pick-up at least.
It depends on what room in our Massachusetts colonial 4bed/2baths/basement oil-heat house.
We have hot-water radiant floor heating (HIGHLY RECOMMEND) under tiles in the family room (with vaulted ceiling), and under wood floor in the kitchen, and these rooms can be warm/toasty (especially when you’re touching the floor) at 66 degrees.
Our dog can be found panting as she lays on the warm floors with the sun shining in through the back sliders because she’s too warm.
The family room used to be freezing, even at 73 degrees because all the heat in way up in the vaulted ceiling.
But the rest of the house has hot water baseboard (and the heat just rises, so it feels much colder, so we (or just me) like to crank it up to 69 during the day (we both work from home).
It’s 62degrees for bedtime, but the kids and I are under down-comforters and hubby has a thin blanket (he runs hot).
Another Georgian here…
Winter daytime - main level on 66-68; upper on 62
Winter nighttime - both levels on 62
My basement bonus room/bath are not on central air and typically comfortable year-around, but with the cold weather coming the next week or so I will have a space heater running down there for the pipes. I will also keep the water dripping in that bathroom. For the first time in my life, we winterized pipes for last year’s cold spell so we did that again this year.
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No, I am cold at that temperature. How do I know? I am married to someone who could easily be a super in a ratty NYC building, saving the slumlord owner big bucks by just keeping the temps high enough that the pipes won’t freeze. He also doesn’t mind wearing a hat and a vest in the house.
With that said, I am always cold. I am also quite happy in the summer with minimal cooling.
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Are you married to my husband?
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I think our three husbands must be sharing a wardrobe, lol.
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I’m now curious after seeing some of the heating bill numbers - where is everyone coming in on that?
Our heating bill in the winter is usually around $125-150/month (natural gas) for a 3bed/2.5bath house split level. Chicagoland area.
Empty nesters here in Colorado. The baseboard water heating has 7 zones. We keep the main living area at 70 with our bedroom area at 60. The rest are at 55- 60. Solar gain helps a lot and we have a heated waterbed…still.
60F at wake up time, 55-57F at other times.
On a cooler day, I put on warmer clothes in anticipation of going outside. So no need to have the house especially warm.
We prepay our oil (we are still ahead this year). About $900 for the whole winter…heat and hot water. Actually starts in September and goes until July 1.
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68 during the day, 64 at night but the temperature upstairs is 2 degrees colder than what is registered on the thermostat (120 year old house with a hot water heat boiler system). In the summer the A/C is at 72. Ideally it would be at 68 in the summer but the cooling bill is too high.
We have afghans and throw blankets everywhere we sit to read or watch tv. I’d much rather bundle up and have a cooler house.
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