I know I seldom comment, but I read your blog reguarly and love it!  You’re probably going to think we’re crazy, but no dead people here.  We keep the thermostat on 68 during the day and 65 at night.  But we live in the Dallas area so it’s not as if it’s literally freezing outside all the time.  But even when it is, like today, we still leave it on the same settings.  I’m not gonna lie, it’s cold, but if I’m sitting still, I keep a throw blanket on me.  The 3 year old runs around naked, so apparently he doesn’t care.  (I do attempt to keep him dressed...) And my husband would live in an igloo if he could.  Such is life when you’re married to an accountant who wants to save a buck or two.  Maybe Will will consent to bumping it up a notch.  Good luck!

I’m all in favor of lowering the thermostat to save on the energy bill… I’m in StL and our Winters vary but can get down to single digit highs for weeks at a time.  My thermostat is ALWAYS set for 62 degrees.  On the other hand, in Summer and even when we have 100+ degree heat, my thermostat never goes below 80.

I do believe, if I’m looking at it right, ours is currently set at 70, and that might be a little high for us...I think my dad might have turned it up slightly since it’s so cold outside...so I would venture to say that we probably keep ours at 65 otherwise.  And I’m with Lydia’s husband...I could live in an igloo.  I inherited my dad’s sweat glands, and it is so not pretty.  So, right now I’m comfortable, if not a little hot in our 70 degree house.

I have NO idea what our thermostat is set at, but that’s because it’s upstairs and our landlord keeps the temperature at FREEZEING.  See, he lives upstairs, where it’s nice and warm.  We live in a basement.  IE - below the ground.  Where the ground is COLD.  You’d think it might be warm, but no - it’s not - it’s cold!  We asked him to turn it up 1 degree (1 degree!) and he ran around upstairs pulling out all the furnace vents to show us that he has all his vents closed.  Awesome......BUT I"M COLD!
But, you can tell Will we keep ours at 23 Celsius (I think that’s like 70ish) if that helps your cause I’m pretty sure that’s where it was when we had the ability to control the heat where we live!

Ours is set at 59 during the day and we crank it up to 62 when we are home.  Although sometimes if I’m really freezing I will make it 64.  I just wear lots of layers and hide under a mound of blankets.  Plus I make my husband snuggle more just to keep me warm!

Hahaha, you are TOO funny!  I’m sorry you got caught in this experiment! Our heating bill was insane last month, too.  Double what we paid the same time last year.  So sad.  We keep ours at 66 in the winter.  We have to do that because of our vaulted ceilings and the way air flow works and such.  It results in a downstairs that is too cold for my taste, and an upstairs that gets so hot at night it’s bearable with the fan on, but not comfortable.  Anything higher than 66 in the winter, and upstairs becomes a sauna.

Our thermostat is set at 70 when we are home.  I personally would like to keep it no lower than 72.  Our bill went way up last month, too, but I totally didn’t care.  I told my DH that I would gladly pay double that amount to have my house be warm.  I spend 95 percent of my day cold, so my own house better be warm.  Tell Will I said to turn up the heat!!

My answer isn’t going to help your cause, I’m afraid.  Up until we got a new high efficiency furnace about 2 weeks ago, we kept ours at 63.  Now we keep it on a warm and balmy 65, figuring the difference between the 60% efficiency furnace we used to have and the 90% one we have now ought to more than pay for an increase of 2 degrees.  And yep, our cold house is a direct result of high gas bills the first few months we lived there.  We also set the a/c at 80 in the summer (but only when its sweltering outside, most of the time we open windows and turn on fans)...that’s how cheap we are. So like I said...I’m not much help. Sorry!

Our is at 68 and my energy bill just gave us a heart attack--$403!!!!!!!  Yup.  And it is freezing in my house.  We put in new windows last year , but a new heater will cost almost $9k.  Insane right?

65?!  Egads girl!  Mine is at 71 and I’m flipping freezing!

And I’m ALONE in my 70+??

SOMETIMES we put it at 69, but right now it’s just too cold out.  The babies’ rooms would be freezing and I don’t like to let them have a ton of blankets for obvious reasons....so warmish it is.

But....as a note so I dont’ sound like some rich idiot, we have (something very much like) geothermal heat.  So our heat is run by electicity but it forced air....it’s cheap, and so we’re liberal with the heat. 

59?!  whooo hooo!  brr!!

We’re energy savers and keep our heat at 65-68. It’s sometimes chilly but we put on a hoodie! Overall it’s not too bad. We have down comforters on the bed so I’m even warm at night sometimes. We have baskets of blankets too by the sofas if we’re lounging around.

We saw a huge difference in our energy bill so I hope you do to!

We leave ours on 70, although we are Florida babies that now live in Chicago, so we are always cold!!!

We keep our heat on 70 in the winter.  Our apartment has really old windows that they couldn’t replace when they remodeled because of the grant that was used for the remodel, so if you are by a windowits usually 20 degrees colder with a wind chill.  Our tiny little 800 square foot apartment costs about $250-$300 to heat in the mild Arkansas winter.  Thank goodness the landlord gives us a break on the rent!

Anyway, that is the truth, but I’m totally ok if you put my number at, say...80 to boost your average.  That is totally what I would keep it on if it wasn’t expensive and my husband wasn’t a furnace who is completely comfortable when the house is 60 degrees.

well the other night our thermostat was set at 69, but is now at 66.  I would say that our houses are somewhat near in size (1800 sq ft), and my electric bill was almost 300 last month, but that is with a few nice days.  this recent ice storm is going to kill the bill next month.  our house is total electric too.  although my husband works for the gas company, this house did not have gas, oh well.  it would be nice though.

kevin said to tell you not to worry, your body temp will start to level out once it nears 65, lol.

Our house is over 200 years old and shall we say drafty? yeah, let’s go with drafty. Sometimes i don’t know what we were freaking thinking. We cannot have the thermostat over 68. It just can’t happen. The bill is astronomical. The only good thing is that the boys rooms stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. They are just lucky. I would prefer their rooms be temperate so I am pleased with that. Right now we are all living in just a few rooms so that we heat a smaller portion of the house. I do beieve i have a snot sickle as i type. pass the ice scraper please…

ooh, what an experiment. Especially when you guys are having a freaking cold winter. Isn’t ice on the ground right now?? When I lived in chicago,I would always keep it hovering in the 70’s. I did though turn it down during the day when we weren’t home. but it would kick on about an hour before I got home so the house would be toasty. Here in the bay area, where it is does get cold and damp due to the rain..we keep it at 68. it has dipped down to 32 at night and I was freezing at 68 so I turned it up. I admit, I am a baby about being cold. Good luck! I hope the experiment ends soon. Oh by the way, welcome back to the states where the heating bill sky rockets in the winter!!!

65. Though in years past I would crank that ‘stat up to 72. This of course was when I was smart enough to lock in a monthly rate with Centerpoint whenever they were doing that promo. Now, I’m just plain lazy and rely on the fire hazard known as the electric blanket. Forget going green. My frostbit phalanges are the only non-renewable resources I care about at the moment.

Good lord, people.  We keep ours around 70-75 and still cover up with a throw when sitting around watching TV.  Sometimes we have a fire going in the fireplace, too.  Of course, I’m cold if the weather drops to 55-60.  I didn’t realize we were such a minority.  We’re in Mississippi, though, so we’re used to warmer weather.  I would FREEZE if I had to go north.  I’m looking forward to summer and 100-degree days!

Sorry! I’m in MD, and we have ours set for 65 during the day, 60 at night. I try to bump it up to 68 when there’s company...but one look at the bill, and I will let my husband win on this one! I have so many blankets around the house, it’s not even funny = )

Well we have had ours set at 70 almost since Mid-October, I am in the school of “I work outside, I’m having a warm house when I get home”.Better take into account that I grew up in a house with a woodstove and a father who believes that 75 degrees is cold in the winter, lol. I’m sorry you’re stuck in the experiment, hope this post helps your cause. =o)

We keep ours at 68. When Craig’s not home I sometimes turn it up to 70 just to get the chill off after being gone.

We are at 62.  My theory - put on a sweater and a blanket and it is just fine!  Oil heat is so expensive that I find it much cheaper to bundle up.  Plus--I drink a lot of hot tea.  That helps.  We have a wood stove too, so sometimes we spark it up and it definitely makes the living room warmer.

Ok, I lied.  Unintentionally though!  I thought we kept our thermostat at 66 but we actually keep it at 65!  So you’re not alone.

OK - I see how late I am and realize that I’ve likely missed the cutoff - but here in FL, where our winters don’t get much below 40 for the night-time low, we keep ours set at about 74 for the heat....  I’d be willing to bet anyone north of us would say that’s nuts and would be sweating in our house, but we like it warm and toasty.  This morning, we didn’t have the heat on and it got down to 70 by itself in here, and I was cold and had a robe on to make the kids’ lunches.  It’s now 71 in here, but 76 outside and I’m sitting in shorts and a tee shirt.  God has truly blessed my life - yes, I just sang that whole comment.

Hey guys I know this has been talked about over and over again but I was just wondering what you all are running for temp on your thermostats. I believe the stock is 180 is 160 to cold? And my guage always always always has read high but I’ve never had any problems.