Have you used your heat yet?

[vacanut]

I was thinking of turning ours on last night to get the chill out of the house but put a sweatshirt on instead, dreading the price to heat the house this winter. I think we'll use more blankets and sweatshirts this year. How about you, have you turned your heat on yet?

 

[snels]

Hi,
We have been using our heat for a couple of weeks. A couple of nights we have had a hard frost (under 32 degrees).
Unfortunately, we use natural gas, which is predicted to have a 50% or more increase in price. We have decided to try to keep the temp at 65 during the day. At night we keep it at around 60 degrees.
I will be wearing alot of sweaters and probably wear my thermals!
Sandy

 

[pattyT]

YUP!
I forget what day it was now -
but last week it was real warm then - then I woke in the middle of the night FREEZING - running around completely shutting all windows, andinthe am had to turn the heat on -
even put the electric blanket on last night (dh was all excited - oh you made the bed for winter )
I quess I better go drag out the totes of winder clothes and determine what we need to buy this year

 

[MsDisney23]

What state are you in? We are in NJ, and have not used the heat yet, however I have heard of few people around here turning their's on! We have a new home, only two years old. So I am hoping not to have any problems.

Last year I always used a small heater in my computer room, etc. I went this week to K-Mart and bought a few of those Cuddle Wraps. They are on sale and very warm, made of fleece! My oven is gas, so I am starting to use my crock pot more, I have even thought of buying a small oven for the counter, not a toaster oven, but I saw in K-Mart a nice oven for $100.00.

Oh that is all that is on the news, it the rising cost to heat your home!

 

[Alicnwondrln]

no
we have not there been some cold nights
but not that cold
pjs socks and extra blankets
i dont waan use my oil yet

 

[NMAmy]

Yes, I finally insisted we turn ours on--it's only at 65 but at least I can take a shower in the morning without freezing to death.

 

[GailT]

yep, just to get the chill out. I dont even think it ran last night at the first time it ran.....

 

[stinkerbelle]

Yes, I finally insisted we turn ours on--it's only at 65 but at least I can take a shower in the morning without freezing to death.

I didn't insist...but I did walk in the house last night and say "dang it's cold in here". DH futzed with the thermostats...and put the heat on...set to 64 or 65.

It's not much..but it does take the chill out of the house.

Was so nice to "smell" the heat in the house...with all this rain, it's just been damn and yucky feeling.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Turned it on for a little while this morning and yesterday morning to take the chill out of the air while the kids get dressed. It seems like we went from air conditioning to heat without much of a break.

 

[Towncrier]

Not yet, but not because I haven't wanted to fire up the furnace. DW does not like that furnace smell that is associated with the first heating event of the autumn. I'm going to have to send her on a mini-vacation so that I can burn off that accumulated dust and so that the kids and I don't freeze in the morning.

 

[cepmom]

not yet....I refuse to until at least November 1st!! I just keep telling myself (and the kids) to put on an extra layer (and I said I would never sound like my mother )

We have natural gas and I am dreading this winter....I thought last year's bill was bad ~ I don't even want to see this year's

I thought the price of natural gas would have been less than oil.....why is the increase so high?

Guess I'll be putting the old wood stove to use a lot this year....got to go stock up on wood now and get the chimney cleaned

 

[we3disneygo]

yes to take the chill off when getting out of the shower! plus we have a cockateal and can't freeze her out!!!!!!!!!

 

[pattyT]

I am in MA
and with 2 kids with ear infections for the last week and a half I need it to be warm enough for them!
Also this house is REALLY old - one room isn't even insulated
We were going to insulate it - but we are just going to finish the new house sell this one and be done with it!

 

[bjgrazi]

We did last night, set it at 62 to take out the chill.

 

[mickeyboat]

We are in VT and we turned it on last weekend. We haven't needed it much because the sun warms the house during the day and we like it cool at night, but it won't be long before our oil company will start loving us again!

Denae

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Have you used your heat yet =
I haven't even turned my air off yet!
Gosh, I really miss living up north!

 

[indigoxtreme]

Boy I'm glad to be in the South. We are still in the 70's. Sorry for you though.

 

[Nancy]

No..It really hasn't been cold enough here to turn it on yet. The kids were complaining the other day that the house was cold...it was 68 in the house. I told them to out a sweatshirt on and suck it up...I am not paying those gas bills this year so they better get used to a chilly house.

Dh wants to put in a wood burning fireplace in the family room, he says they have blowers and would heat the whole downstairs. The initail cost would be high, but if it saved on the amount of gas we used we would probably make out in the long run...I just am very nervous about a wood burning fireplace.

 

[T1130]

I did yesterday just to get the chill out of the house with all this rain. Last week we had the air on.

 

[DVCLiz]

No - here in central NC I still have my air conditioning on!!! It's not running much, though - daytime temps have been in the 60s and 70s, and high 50s at night. I'll turn the heat on by November 1st, I'm sure!!!!