And bless you Jesus!!! I see my AC turning off and my electric bill comin’ down!!!!
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19 Thursday Oct 2017
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Yay! Sunny and 70s looks pretty perfect to me!
That’s good news if you can switch of the A/C. When do you have to turn on the heating in the winter, btw? Is the electricity for that as expensive as the A/C bills?
Over here, after the storm, we now have fairly typical autumn weather. After 20° last week, it’s suddenly down to 13° (56F)… So my electricity bill is set to rise from now on…
The heat doesn’t cost as much as the AC. Summer before last (when I was in the final throes of menopause) my electric bill ran close to 170.00 a month for 5 months straight. Last winter was quite mild, so the bill ran, I want to say in the 90’s to low 100.00 for 2 or 3 months. When the weather is in the 60’s and 70’s, we turn it all off and open the doors. We have a great cross breeze!
Hit send too soon! The first year I was here, I turned the heat on immediately – it was a cold winter. Last winter – hit and miss because it was rather mild. (Temps usually in the 60’s, with the occasional spatter of 24 hour cold in the 40’s.)
Sounds like nice conditions from my perspective – and it doesn’t even get *really really* cold here. (But my hands and feet are already in torpor…)
Here, I consider below 50 as cold. Starting tonight, we’ll turn the AC off completely. It’s 80 today and I have students with heavy coats on. Unreal.
I mean, Spawn is STILL wearing flip flops! He’ll wear flip flops until I tell him it’s too cold! LOL!
I am still barefoot in my shoes, but today I am really freezing my toes off. That’s it for the year… (I wish I could wear flipflops all year round…)
He will until I make a scene over it. My toes and fingers get cold very easily (thank you, diabetes) and right now, I’m going nuts trying to find a close-toed pair of shoes for work. I have a pair of canvas shoes, but they are clearly for summer, but considering the problems I’m having finding a pair that isn’t uncomfortable (I’m having to sent the previous 2 pairs back for a larger size) I might be stuck wearing the summer espadrilles!
Update: I have put on socks for the first time in months. Not liking it. (Although my feet feel considerably warmer than yesterday.)
I used to have 100’s of pairs of socks. Now I’m down to maybe 5! LOL!
Turned off the heat/air last night around 7. The house is a very nice 73 this morning! WHOOT!
You do not want to know my HV/AC bills, the shop is insane, but that should be one less cost we will have to deal with in the future. Yay 🌞 Home is also way over $170.00 summer and winter. I’ve sometimes lost my dogs in the house on super hot summer days only to find they are hiding out in a downstairs guest bathroom that is tiled and very cold. I will finally locate them and they will look at me like; “what did you expect, it freakin’ hot!”
It is easier to keep the costs down in the winter, not that we keep it that cold, but I try to keep the house around 63º to 68º on the high end, can’t have the water pipes freeze and they will freeze in the bar and kitchen if I don’t keep a slight drip of cold water running if the temps fall below freezing, despite the heat running. The HV running in the winter will dry out a dogs skin and mine also. Utah climate is a desert and it ages your skin faster, (like so many things that age a woman’s skin faster than a man’s) but mostly it is uncomfortable for me.
Glad to hear you are getting a reprieve in the weather Zee 🍁
We’ve reached a point where we can turn it off at night. Come middle of next week, when Spawn is home, it will be turned off and the doors opened. Summer before last was horrible. Just horrible. We had a ‘cold’ winter in January and February of 2016, but not so much this past year. We didn’t have the heat on very much at all. Maybe at night.
I tend to keep the AC set at 74/75 in the summer and 68-72 in the winter. I’ll pay the bill because I like being comfortable!