<p>Winter - 60 when we are not home otherwise 66, but we wear fleece, socks and slippers. Blanket on every sofa. During the night, we turn it down to 60 again with extra layer of fleece blanket.
Summer - turn on celling fan and open the windows when we are hom. A/C is only for upper stair one hour before bed time, 76. Then we open the window and turn on celling fan whole night.</p>
<p>In the winter, 64 during the day & 60 at night. We’ll turn it up higher if we have guests. I have no sympathy for the son who insists on wearing t-shirts year round.</p>
<p>In the summer, we set the thermostat to 78, but only put on the A/C if the outside temp is above 90 or it’s extrmely humid. We have ceiling fans in the family room & bedrooms, so the rooms feel cooler than the ambient temp.</p>
<p>Winter - 65
Summer - 75…if it is 90+ degrees outside I will set the temp a little higher, 78 or so.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter what we set it at, it doesn’t get very cool - we’d be happy with 75. I see the small sections of pipe around the AC that are not insulated frozen white and the AC shuts down every 20 minutes. It was a new unit we put in last year and we just cant get them to get it working right.</p>
<p>Winter:71. Before my husband lost his job with no hope of securing another due to his age, we kept it at 73.</p>
<p>Summer:74. I hate air conditioning, and would be much happier if it were set at 76-78, but someone in our house (DH) just wilts when it gets that warm.</p>
<p>I live in LA. Not sure if my heater even works and I don’t have AC. I do love my ceiling fans and cross breeze.</p>
<p>Glad to find others in the “low-60s in winter” club. Thought we’d be alone.</p>
<p>I should provide full disclosure (forgot before) that we do run a small portable heater in the bathroom for showers. Turn on heater at same time as start to run shower… and room is comfortable when shower is done.</p>
<p>In the winter I keep the heat on 68 most of the time during the day. If I feel chilly in the evening, I might bump it up to 70 or 71. If I am active during the day, I might lower it to 65. We set it for 55 while we sleep.</p>
<p>During the summer, we usually keep it set to somewhere between 75 and 78. If it is very humid, but not too hot, I might lower a bit just to get it running, but then raise it again so it doesn’t get too cold. </p>
<p>Here is what I don’t understand. If I set it to 72 in the winter I would be too hot. If I set it to 72 in the summer I would be too cold. Anyone know why this is so?</p>
<p>The heat rarely goes on, and when it does it is rarely for more than 24-48 hours. </p>
<p>A/C is another story. Given that it is on 8-9 mos of the year in central/south Florida, we usually run it at 76-78. We use quite a few ceiling fans. If we have a house full of people (not often) I might set it at 74. We get used to the heat. When it is 95 out with 98% humidity, 78 FEELS GREAT.</p>
<p>A/C…78
Heat…66-68</p>
<p>66 for heat in the winter.</p>
<p>72 for AC in the summer.</p>
<p>This will crack you all up. My husband says he gets too COLD if it’s below 72 in the summer. HELLO??? Then why is 66 ok for the winter…with 55 at night.</p>
<p>We only use AC sporadically in the summer - turned it on last night for sleeping. I set it at 76 for a while to lower the humidity in the house, then keep it at 80 the rest of the time it is in use. In the winter, temp is set at 67 during the day when I am here alone, 70 when the family is home, and 62 at night.</p>
<p>We set the thermostat in the winter for 60 and we are fine in a long sleeved shirt. When we sit down for the evening, the dog tends to be a heater…or the afghan.</p>
<p>No central AC in our house so the ceiling fans cool off enough to suit our tastes. It’s 80 in the DR now. :)</p>
<p>68 in the winter for heat. We do not have AC…just windows and fans! There’s only maybe a day or two a year that is uncomfortable and I don’t like the closed up feeling. I turn the heat off and open the windows in the winter for 10-15 minutes just to get some real air in the house.</p>
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Reminds me… the laptop is my personal heater most of the winter :). Parent Cafe, online bridge, Spider/Free Cell solitaire… and warmth.</p>
<p>I would freeze in your homes! We do 69-70 in winter when we are home and I am usually complaining about being cold, even with a sweatshirt/fleece etc. Summer we do 80 but I need 78 for sleeping and getting ready for work in the morning. H does better when I’m at work. He can stand it really hot in summer and colder in winter.</p>
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I think it has do with how we’re dressed. Where I work, we keep the thermostat at around 74 year round and I often have a sweater that I take off and put on all day!</p>
<p>I’d prefer 72 in winter, but my husband sets the thermostat to 66, but it doesn’t kick on until it drops to 62. Brrrrrrr I end up wearing 3-4 layers all winter long: camisole, shirt, sweater, fleece vest.</p>
<p>Then in the summer, my husband and son still want it cold, cold, cold. They put the AC on at 70 degrees and again I’m wearing my fleece vest. </p>
<p>I think I need to move out of the northeast.</p>
<p>If I could figure out how to reset the digital thermostats, the temps would be higher this summer. I manually push up the upstairs one to 76, but it goes back to 74. Downstairs is at 75ish, I think</p>
<p>We keep the thermostats at 60-62 during the heating season. If needed, I wear a sweater. If we are sitting on a sofa reading or watching a movie, we’ll usually use an afghan. We don’t live in Tahiti, after all! I keep the radiator turned off in the bedroom, because I like it cool at night. I keep the bedroom windows open from April to November, most years.</p>
<p>We don’t have A/C. Every bedroom has a window fan. </p>
<p>The chocolate room is the only room with A/C. I usually keep it at 66-68 during warm months. It has its own heat, and during the cool months I keep it at about 59 unless working there, when I turn it up to about 66. (There are constraints with temp and humidity when working with chocolate.)</p>
<p>I find most places horribly overheated in the winter, as you might imagine! :)</p>