<p>67 during the day, off at night. But then here in SoCal it rarely gets below 60 in the house, even with the heat off.</p>
<p>currently set at 55. it’s invigorating! we’re all surviving and decided to invest in clothes which keep us warm during those few cold months, and it ends up actually being cheaper! if guests come, we’ll crank up the heat to 62;-)</p>
<p>I simply could not live in a house set below 68. I am very cold-blooded and would have to be in ski clothes.</p>
<p>Programmable thermostat. 58 @ 11pm, 65 @ 6 am (when we get up), back down to 60 from 7 am to 5 pm while we are at work and then 67 till 11 pm. </p>
<p>A year and a half ago we finally replaced our 80 y/o oil fired boiler which was originally a coal burning unit and converted to oil sometimes in the 60’s. We replaced it with a natural gas fired boiler. My last winters bill using oil was $2400. This year I expect to pay $900 to $1000 for the entire season. I figure it will take 4 years to recoup the conversion cost on a system that will last 25 years. A very good investment.</p>
<p>68 during the day. 64 at night. We would go colder if it was up to my H. He wears shorts around the house…</p>
<p>That should have been and "in"expensive, not expensive throw. My fingers were too cold to type correctly!</p>
<p>69 when home, 65 at night, 62 when not home.</p>
<p>But…when we have many days running where to step outdoors feels like walking into a walk-in freezer, then I feel cold into my bones, so push it to 70. </p>
<p>I feel a big difference between 69 and 70.</p>
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<p>I live in an old apartment building so don’t control the heat setting. It’s pretty warm in here, around 70 I think. </p>
<p>I don’t mind the cold but I have no circulations in my fingers and toes so if it was below 65 in here, I wouldn’t be able to type! You can dress warmly but what do you do about icicle fingers?</p>
<p>67 during the day, 61 at night. Now that D & S are both in school, the upstairs is 64 during the day. About 55 when we’re away. H complains about being cold (he works from home) but refuses to put on a sweater. Definitely flannel sheets and a down comforter in the winter. When we move, we won’t have 9’ ceilings and a 2 story entry – which certainly doesn’t help with energy costs.</p>
<p>68 by day, 65 by night. My teenage son lives in shorts and t-shirts so he must be comfortable. Even with that…my gas bill came yesterday…$254! ouch.</p>
<p>My temp has depended on my house. Makes a big difference if you have good exterior, good insulation, good windows, etc. </p>
<p>I currently have a 3600s.f., 3 level, very OPEN house with NO carpeting and NO curtains/blinds on the main floor. I have it set at 69 and it is pretty perfect on all three levels, oddly. It’s OLD, has exterior stone that keeps the temp pretty constant. NO drafts. </p>
<p>Once it drops under freezing…I’d probably PREFER 70, but I go back and forth between 68 and 69 because I can save a decent amount of money with just that 1-2 degrees. I could live under 68, but I’d need thick socks and sweatshirts so I don’t do that (but I probably WILL when my D heads off to college, so I can PAY for it!).</p>
<p>I know people who lower theirs into the mid 50s at night (brrrrrr!), yet my VERY elderly next door neigher keeps his at 72 (and his smaller house has a MUCH higher heat bill than I do at 70). A degree or two in severe weather makes a BIG difference. We’ve been in the 20s most of the winter, and I haven’t gone up or down any more than 68-69.</p>
<p>In the summer we are at 80-82 except at night when we go down to 78. That’s where we save our money over most around here who cool to 72 or so which is incredibly expensive.</p>
<p>We go with 68 day and night and I do wear a few layers with that temp. At night there are warm throws on both sofa’s and my husband and I both tend to snuggle in them to watch tv. I would have to wear a winter coat and not just turtlenecks and sweaters if we went any lower. I almost like hot flashes in the winter because then I’ll actually be warm for a couple of minutes.</p>
<p>Have programmable thermostat set at 70 for two hours in the morning while we are showering & dressing, daytime temp while we are gone is 66 as is evening temp for downstairs, 68-69 when we are home and for sleeping. Some of you would have done much better in my home last year when we lost power due to ice storm and inside the house was 42. Hopefully the new ventless gas logs downstairs will prevent that level of hardship should we ever lose power like that again. I feel like a wimp after reading some of the posts here, but I’m a warm wimp!</p>
<p>I keep the thermostat at 65 degrees. Our little sunroom has a separate control so when I watch television I sneak the temp up a degree or two in that room.</p>
<p>It sounds to me that many of the people that keep the thermostat at a low temp do so because they are comfortable at that temperature, not that they are trying to save money. My husband often wears t-shirts at 68 while I have on a turtleneck and sweatshirt or sweater.</p>
<p>Side note: the power of the sun - we have a sunroom as well. Usually keep it closed off during the day when we are at work. There is a small electric heater in that that clicks on about 2pm. Yesterday the temp was about 30 outside, but full sun all afternoon long that shines in the sunroom directly. When I came home from work and opened the door to the room, the heat just flowed out - I checked a little clock w/temperature reading we have in there - 95 degrees! </p>
<p>I opened those doors right up and let that nice warm heat flow out!</p>
<p>We live in central florida and my heater’s on my right now. 
We have the downstais thermostat set for 66 degrees and we set the upstairs one (only at night while we’re up there) at 64 degrees. (We use a space heater in the bathroom in the morning as it’s cold when we get up to shower!) We wear our sweaters/sweatshirts and use a blanket on our legs in the evening when sitting on a couch. I grew up in In (H in chicago) and we’re colder down here in the house than we could have been up north beause we have HUGELY HIGH ceilings and all the vents are up above. So … the heat doesn’t make it down to the floor level very well. Really works great for air-conditioning but sucks for heat. LOL</p>
<p>zebes (oh, we set our air at 79 and 75 while sleeping in the summer)</p>
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