Heat
6 December 2009
Last winter I paid close to three hundred dollars a month for heat and was still cold and miserable. This time I decided to delay turning on the heat as long as possible; if I’m going to be cold and miserable anyway, I might as well save my money. For the last month or so the temperature outside has been generally in the forties, and the temperature in my house as been generally in the fifties. This isn’t so bad, really. I wear five shirts and sit on the couch; my fingers get cold but I feel fine — better than I did last year, actually, maybe because I’m resigned to it. But I’ve been dreading the day when it gets really cold out and I have to turn the heat on and start paying again.
Today there is a little snow on the ground. Weather.com says the temperature outside is currently 27. Temperature in here: 53. Pretty comfortable. Granted, I’m cooking at the moment, and that’s generating some heat, but it’s been pretty comfortable all day. What is this? Do I have some kind of magic house that bottoms out at a temperature of 53? In the middle of February will it still be 53 in here without the heat on? Am I going to save myself a thousand dollars?
Comments (2)
When Holly was working in my house, she was cold when the temperature was perfect for me. We found a solution that warmed her. She put her feet on a heating pad and had a little electric heater next to her. My heating bill didn’t go up. Do you have a heating pad and an electric heater to warm up the spot where you are sitting?
I have a space heater that I turn on sometimes. It is driving up someone’s electricity bill, but not mine. (I don’t pay electricity.)