What's your home thermostat set at?

[Pax]

We live in an old building with steam radiators (no individual thermostats). The building is mostly inhabited by elderly women who apparently complain A LOT when their apartments are below 75 (80?) or so. Thus, we leave a couple windows open year round....

I do love that the radiator pipes act like radiant heating in the tiled bathroom...nothing like warm floor when you first get up. I don't miss my grad school apartment...5 winters with virtually no insulation in a cinder-block box with a little tiny furnace. Good times.

I lived in a place with radiant heat when I lived in Chicago, it was around 80 most of the winter, I'd keep a window open even on zero degree days.

[Brandi]

my hubby just told me our heat does not come in the night unless it get's below 64 in the house. But he has it set to go off in the morning around 5:30 am to 70 so it is not freezing when we get up and then it is set to go off after 4:30 during the day if it get's below 68. but turns off at around 9 pm. We also have lot's of throw blankets we get under during the winter. Including 3 cats!

[Norse]

In winter for the main thermostat, 68 days, 65 nights; and 60 for the separate den temp control. We also use the fireplace a lot, especially on weekends. Our house is drafty due to all the windows (over 40!). During the transition season of autumn, we only turn it down to 67 nights until our bodies, and our cats, have had a chance to acclimate a little to the new lower temps. The dog loves cold and snow.

[Norse]

One other point, except for the den and the basement, the whole house has hardwood or tile flooring, which tends to make things cooler.

[GLC1968]

Ours is set to 55F. That temp keeps the pipes from freezing in the outer walls if the temp happens to drop to below freezing outside (which doesn't happen all that much). The furnace does kick on for half an hour at 6 am to take the house up to 65, but then shuts off again for the rest of the day.

My H works from home, but he sits in a tiny room surrounded by computers, so it's quite warm in there.

We also have a wood stove (a new one that is the right size for our house, finally!) and we use that to keep it comfortable when we are home like in the evening or on the weekends.

[Tri Girl]

wow- I feel like a major winter wimp here. Our house is very old and very under-insulated (we're working on that one exterior wall at a time). We have it set at 68 in the evening and 73 when we're home.
One winter we lost power for a week during an ice storm. Our house got down down 61 and I swear I almost froze to death. I don't know how you people do it below 61.

[GLC1968]

wow- I feel like a major winter wimp here. Our house is very old and very under-insulated (we're working on that one exterior wall at a time). We have it set at 68 in the evening and 73 when we're home.
One winter we lost power for a week during an ice storm. Our house got down down 61 and I swear I almost froze to death. I don't know how you people do it below 61.

Yeah, but I melt if it's over 75 so you should have seen our electric bill when we lived in North Carolina.

[Pax]

wow- I feel like a major winter wimp here. Our house is very old and very under-insulated (we're working on that one exterior wall at a time). We have it set at 68 in the evening and 73 when we're home.
One winter we lost power for a week during an ice storm. Our house got down down 61 and I swear I almost froze to death. I don't know how you people do it below 61.

Not wimpy, each person responds to cold differently.

I have wicked arthritis and the cold makes me ache from head to toe... so my thermostat is set WARM! I don't mind heat at all so in the summer the AC is set really high and isn't even on much of the time.

[jessmarimba]

One winter we lost power for a week during an ice storm. Our house got down down 61 and I swear I almost froze to death. I don't know how you people do it below 61.

Trust me, I hate it. I'm always cold even if the house is set at 70 or higher. I sit about a foot in front of a space heater if I'm home and not moving for any period of time. But my furnace is ancient, my house can't be altered to preserve heat any better, and my upstairs at least heats up from the sun by evening. I spend most of the winter in the two rooms upstairs (my bedroom, and my "sitting room"/tv room).

My boyfriend's house is even colder. His thermostat is set at 55 and he doesn't have a cozy upstairs like I do - it's just as drafty and cold in his upstairs as his downstairs. My fingers are always numb when I'm there and I drink a lot of hot tea to keep my hands warm.