What temp do you keep your house set at in the winter?

[Minnesota!]

we are at 67' 24/7. Next year when nobody is home during the day, we will go to 63 or so during the day.

I could go lower now, honestly...I just haven't.

 

[ancestry]

65 for us. We have radiant floor heat no forced air so we do better to just stay as a consistent temperature.

Even at that it costs us close to $800 per month in the winter to heat the house -- thanks to heating oil and Maine temperature.

 

[preschoolmom]

Generally 67°, but I nudge it up to 68° on damp days. I wear jeans, socks, shoes, and generally a long sleeve shirt/and sweatshirt most days.

We live in an older home with little insulation and drafty windows. I doubt it is really 67° in here...

 

[Riles_and_Gabe]

I keep it at 68 while we are there during the day. I put it down to 50 at night and when we are gone.

 

[JamesMom]

I live in North Texas where the lows are currently below freezing at night. I keep the thermastat between 62-65. Don't worry about the costs as much as I hate what the heater does to the air - my skin is already dried out. I wear sweats to bed and walk around with a sweater. No big deal as I sleep wonderful in the cool air. 72 would be too hot just as it is too cool in the summer - hint, hint, commerical places.

 

[leebee]

55 during the day when nobody is home, 58 in the evening when we are watching TV, usually down a bit for overnight, but never lower than 55. Yes, we are freezing most of the time. We wear sweats and socks and we each have our own lap throw for watching TV at night. DD has a space heater in her room that we turn on an hour before bedtime... I turn it off when I go to bed and then back on in the morning so she doesn't get up to the icicle room! We have a big, 100 year old house with bad windows and don't have the $7000 to replace them (got estimates this summer, but can't borrow the money). Turning the heat up any more than that doesn't make much difference... I think we are heating the outdoors as much as indoors. It usually takes 4 tanks of oil to heat the house from mid-Nov to mid-March, and with oil at $3.59 a gallon that's about $2800 for heating oil for 4 months Needless to say, I am loving the warm fall/winter we are having. We still have 100+ gallons left in the tank from last May's fill-up. I think that'll last until mid-January, if we are lucky, and we'll only have to fill the tank a couple of times this winter instead of 4 times. Yes, it gets pretty darned cold, but we snuggle to keep warm!!

 

[DebMcDonald]

68-70. I think we're either 62 or 65 when we sleep and 62 when we are away from the house.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

74 degrees.
And we've got a horrible vaulted ceiling in the main living area of the house which means the house feels colder. As much as I love an open feeling, I will never own another house with a vaulted ceiling again.

We usually have sweaters or sweatshirts on to stay warm even at 74 degrees.

I am home all day and I can't imagine having it colder. I hate the cold. I bet you guys would hate to see our heating and cooling bills.

 

[puffkin]

PA here and we keep ours at 60 degrees all the time pretty much. No one has frozen in our house either! We do have a gas fireplace in our family room that we run a lot when we are home and that keeps most of our living area very comfortable but the bedrooms do stay COLD.

I have a 2000 SF 2 story house and my heating (gas) bill is less than $600 a year. We used to pay well over $1000 before we got the fireplace and kept the entire house set at a higher temp. You do get used to it

 

[Sandi]

Michigan (middle of the mitten). We keep it at 68 when we're home; 59 overnight and when no one is home. We have a sun room with radiant floor heating that we leave on every season except summer; cats tend to be there when we get home. We also have a heated floor in our main bathroom that is time programmed. Finally, we all have heated mattress pads that we turn on about 45 minutes before bed and then turn off when we go to bed.

 

[leebee]

We moved from Michigan (Haslett, hi Sandi!) to PA (where we had electric heat, highest electricity bill was about $150 in the winter) to Maine, where we were introduced to oil heat and outrageous electricity costs. Average electric bill is about $120 a month, year round, just for electricity; we have a "delivery charge" that makes up at least 50% of the bill every month. I can promise you, nobody arrives at my door with a bucketful of electrons every month! I am constantly shutting off lights and unplugging things in the hope of keeping the bill down! If we had a spare $10K we'd replace the windows and line the chimney so we would be warmer, but that's not gonna happen. Instead, the windows are covered in shrink-wrap plastic and I made fleece curtains for all windows and the front door. We are trying, but every year I think about moving further south...

 

[swilshire]

I usually turn ours all the way down, which is about 50. DH comes by and turns it up. I turn it back down again.

Once the weather gets cold enough for the heat to run even at that setting, we put a fire in the woodstove.

Sheila

 

[jme829]

usually around the same (65ish). I will turn it up to 67/8 in the a.m. to take the chill off. I keep the a/c on that temp in the summer as well. Its usually warm in our house in the winter except down in the family room, so 65 is fine for us, unless it is brutally cold out.

 

[VroomVroomLightning]

I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and keep it about 65ish. The issue we have is in the bedrooms the air is so dry we all wake up coughing and very dry mouths. Now in the living room where it is more open we don't have that issue. So I prefer to keep the heat off when we are sleeping! But I am a hoody and sweat pants type of person around the house so it works perfect!

 

[ZehnJahren]

You guys are NUTS. We're in Chicago, and we keep ours at 70 and I am always in sweatpants, a t-shirt, and a fleece jacket or sweater. Sometimes I need two pairs of socks! We have an electric blanket on our bed, otherwise I'd have to go up to 72-73 at night because I can NOT sleep cold.

That blanket has been a lifesaver, though. I turn mine on high and then turn it down when I go to bed; it has an automatic shut-off after 2hrs, 4hrs, 6hrs, or 10hrs. I set mine for 2hrs, and then sleep warm and toasty all night. Plus, both sides are independently controlled, so DBF can have it cooler or warmer than me. It's so nice.

 

[DisneyEater]

68 all the time.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

58 day and night. Located in the Raleigh NC area.

Tend to wear sweats during the day.

Poor dh I had it at 60 last year and snuck it down a couple of degrees this winter

 

[kinntj]

72 degrees all the time. When your mom lives with you and she has paper thin skin and weighs 78 lbs, there's no other choice. I would be fine with 68 degrees with 65 at night normally.

 

[runwad]

NE OH, usually keep ours at 62 and when we're not home for the day I turn it down to 60. We wear warm clothes around too and all have those snuggy/body wrap blankets. Sometimes I'll turn it up to 63 in the morning to take the chill off but my it gets so hot. I turn it right back down. I'm another who's always running around my house working and I don't like to be hot. DH is hot blooded so likes it cool too, our kids well they don't have a choice.ha We do also have space heaters and might pop those on occasionally when the elderly visit. Our family room has a pocket door that we can close so it gets very toasty in there with either the gas fireplace or space heater on. We have flannel sheets on the beds and sleep like babies. If it's too hot my nose gets plugged and I can't breathe, but yet if I turn it down too cold, I get a cold 62 is just right.

 

[Angielynne]

I'm in southeast Michigan. Our heat is set to 68 during the day when me and the baby are home, 64 at night when we are all sleeping and I turn it down to 60 when i'm going to be gone and not home for awhile.

We have an older house with drafty windows, so our house feels very cold during the day if we go lower than 68. Sometimes if I get chilled, I will turn it up to 71 just to take the chill off.