My sister will be visiting soon, and my nephew dislikes mosquitoes. Then repeat, this time standing on your right leg and lifting your left. Are We Cut Out for Small Town Living Long Term? Yours happens to be on the cold side while mine is very much on the warm side. Top of the list after retirement is to attack that problem and load up on better insulation! Like I say we are in North Florida only 35 miles from Georgia. Secondly, I give you serious congrats on being able to acclimate to your thermostat being that low. Still not as low as you guys though. No joke. Hadn’t heard that before but it makes sense. I gasped when I read 13 degrees celsius because we keep our house at about 25 degrees celsius in winter. :), Virtually everyone we know in the FIRE space has moved up their timeline at least once, and I bet you’ll end up doing the same. Unfortunately nothing will be done. I keep my house at 55 degrees, actually because I feel comfortableand I like it cold, that’s pure biology. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Not needing to appear sexy I dress for the weather outside – typically I wear 2 long-sleeved thermal vests, a body warmer I bought to climb Mont Blanc, a huge scarf, two light jerkin-type cardigans, a hose coat, thermal underwear and trousers, large woolly socks, a woolly hat and cycling gloves. In the end, I think we both have our extremes of what our tolerances can handle. Readers are advised to do their own research and make decisions in partnership with their health care provider. Haha. I also have not been sick at all since doing this. Keep your gaze forward and take up to six easy breaths. The one indulgence I permit myself is to have the heat lamp on in the bathroom; that’s one room where I can’t stand being cold. Here 5 tips for keeping the heat in and the cold out: 1. In fact, hypothermia can happen to someone in a nursing home or group facility if the rooms are not kept warm enough. This may be a bit ambitious and obviously a lot can change between now and then so I’ll just have to roll with the punches. That’s pretty incredible. I’m kind of anti-fireplace because when I was little, my bedroom was at the top of the stairs and when the fire was going, it sucked all the heat out of my room and it was FREEZING! Ideally, and depending on how long we travel, we will have the opportunity to continue investing and simultaneously save up enough funds to essentially pay cash for our forever home, wherever we ultimately decide that may be. (I live in Alaska, and as soon as it’s consistently above 45 at night, the heat goes off). Just got back from skiing in Utah last week and forgot just how blue that sky is and what skiing on real snow is! ;-) Redbox is literally the only show in town! Hiya friends! Yes! And judging by today’s comments, you’re not alone. We’ve definitely been pondering the same question about “frugality.” When we started our blog we hesitated to use the word much, but it became cumbersome to avoid it since much of what we do is viewed as frugal. And I know A/C can be a fortune for people in hot and/or humid places, so no complaints overall — just don’t want to pay more than we have to. It accomplishes this by reversing the direction of Freon flow using valves that are electrically operated. It isn’t worth it (to us), and our ability to stick to our guns on this for five straight winters tells me that we can stick to our guns on other frugal habits in retirement, especially if our investments do poorly some years and we have to tighten our belts. Even staring at the meter and trying to estimate based upon pricing tiers has proven to be a futile endeavor. I was fine in our cold house but he worked elsewhere and thought the home was frigid.). As it turns out, your body likes to be a bit cooler when it sleeps. Find yourself in need of better sleep? Thankfully it is normally for only two weeks. Or, as I wrote to Penny last week in response to her brilliant post, the Privilege of Pretending, it feels like when we talk frugality, we’re really just being frugality tourists. Both bugs and rodents seek out warm places. Anything in the 60-67 degree range is great; outside of those degrees your body will spend extra energy trying to get comfortable and you’ll spend the night tossing and turning. Like you guys, we would probably not truly be considered frugal in a lot of areas of our finances. I gotta admit that I was floored when I heard how much it costs to keep your place at 56 in the winter time. But hey, if you’re not paying, then it’s one less thing to worry about or calculate, and that’s a big positive. I am a bit of a wuss when it comes to the cold. Our best advice for feeling less sadness about not going to the movies is to move to a small town with no movie theatre. Even Mr. Money Mustache has written about spending money on fancy cheeses (right?). After all, we’ve already established that we’re quickly prepaying our mortgage despite the math that says we should be investing all that money instead. We’ve learned that we can live perfectly well without a lot of heat, so of course I wonder what we’ll eventually give up, realizing that our perceived need of it was an illusion all along. Your body has to use more energy when it’s just a bit chilly in your home; all that energy used means calories burned. Cold walls during winter will lower the temperature throughout your whole house. So glad you guys got to UT! Every single comment is a big deal to us, and we love how much we learn from things you share. :-) And whoa — I don’t know how you could even stand to shower at that place in KY if you could see your breath. I have no problem with it. I’m glad you’ve found a temperature that works for you, and I think it’s great that you’re looking for where else you can make changes. It’s interesting that you said that keeping the house cooler can help with inflammation. y’all. Ah, a fire. are. If anything, I have more arguments with roommates over the years about keeping it too warm in the summer. You guys are doing awesome, as well. She’s only taxing her system and (especially at her age) that kind of strain ain’t healthy. In the winter (heating season), I set the thermostat at 17C (62.6F) during the day and 13.5C (56.3F) at night. Haha — I can picture that kind of moment. Hope it was awesome. What’s an even more interesting question to us is: What will this habit lead to? In general we do not run the heat at all it stays off.My husband, daughter and 1 roommate never complain about being cold. :), Okay, sold. Keeping your home on the cooler side, deters these unwelcome guests. We expect cold temperatures during the winter, but when highs drop to the single digits or below zero it can be more difficult to keep your house warm. :-) And hey, if temperature is important to you, then YES, pay for it! Many people (even with a 6-figure salary) cannot draw a clear line between necessity and luxury and end up with a huge amount of debt. You could easily spend $400 a month with A/C here in the summer time if you kept it closer to 73 or 74. The same with our whole coffee beans or non-GMO yogurt or whatever. This changed my life. Be goo to the earth since is the only place we can live. Some people just don’t step out their boundary. I’ve experienced dry cold and dry heat and wet cold and wet heat, and there’s no comparison. Sure it feels warm by the fire, but every Btu that goes up the chimney is replaced by cold air pulled into the house elsewhere. Haha. Although I think that’s mostly true if you are in that cold house most of the time. Good article, Brittany! It’s one of the bigger disagreements we get into. How fascinating to know that bugs will stay away if cold temperatures are maintained. Aren’t you kind of cheating if you have all that electric heat? :), Thank goodness we have a wood stove, not a fireplace — SO much more efficient, and doesn’t have that vacuum effect. I grew up in an old timber framed farm house, so heat ducks could only be placed on half of the lower level, and the up stairs was only heated by what heat drifted up through the staircase. Have you read his blog? We always sleep with our temp between 60-64 but he pumps it up when we get up to 72 or 73. I don’t mind a cold house, but below 10 is too cool for me. I mean if someone doesn’T like the cold, why would he chose to live in the mountains? In extreme cases, low humidity can even crack wooden furniture. Like north of $450, which was the first gas bill we received after moving in, using the setting the previous owners had left on the thermostat, which was an entirely reasonable 66 degrees (19º C). Okay, like I said saving money because you are using the heater less is a bit of a no brainer. Not the principle but the more extreme approach. We’re from Pa and it’s cold but I sweat the minute I walk in from work. That is why they cannot stop such a habit. And after your post about living in the cold, I bought a water bottle, and it has CHANGED MY LIFE. I only lived there that one winter…. I keep my house at 57°F. I live on the west coast if Scotland so it’s regularly cooler and wetter than the rest of uk but you get used to it and the scenery makes up for the weather. Thanks for the advice; I can’t believe you captured that with an iPhone! 55 is too low and we have a well insulated home with a high efficiency furnace. We’re in this with an open mind and, while working longer wouldn’t be the end of the world by any means, retiring earlier would always be a welcome problem to have! We have been meaning to do the window insulation for a while, but it seems a tad pointless when we know we have such a drafty house overall. I think I would be sweating if we kept our house at 25C! As it is, we pay about $200 a month in the winter to maintain 56, with occasional bumps up to 60 (15º C) when we’re in a treat yoself mood. Haha — thankfully we have never resorted to full-on outerwear in the house! I might have to be the oddball commenter. One over five hundred dollar energy bill did that for us, the first month after we moved in. You have to factor in house pets, plants, etc Then their are the inanamint objects. Whereas turning up the heat is kinda not-great for the environment, so you don’t do it. (See where you rank on the Global Rich List. I think the craziest weirdest thing I do to conserve $ is to do military showers where you wet yourself, soap up, and then rinse off. Why does it warrant its own set of logic? I’m doing it tonight, though, because this was the second recommendation. I am a hot box. We chose the latter! Germs can spread around the house through contact, air (coughs and sneezes), raw foods (e.g. “I’m not going to say that I liked living in a 45-degree house, but eventually I didn’t mind it, and it taught me that one’s sense of comfort can be redefined with a bit of grit and resourcefulness. Not that our sky is that blue every day, but that is what you get in the cold, dry mountain air, way up high. That said, as a frugal person, I am a bit in love with the idea. Like they say at work if your cold your not working hard enough. However he is freezing if the temp gets below 80 F. What can I do? Culturally they insist on a cooler house. Moisture, as you know, makes the floor colder. For example, it’s not that big of a deal for us to cook most nights, so it makes sense to save money this way since the margins, compared to eating out or takeout, are pretty good. Not too shabby! Ha — I would definitely make fun of you once if you were my coworker, but then I’d leave you alone to your quirky space heater ways. Some say you’ll burn up to 100 extra calories each day if that thermostat is turned down. “This means these homes are heated when no-one is there to benefit and then the home is too cold when people are in the home,” the experts said. A cooler room means you’ll fall asleep quicker and you will sleep more deeply! I would love for someone to explain to me why having a cold house is dangerous if you dress up properly. :-), I and my brothers can’t handle the cold well as we grew up in a tropical country. Apart from the bathroom which has no thermostat in any case, I don’t have the heating switch on upstairs at all. We never consider forgoing things we need, we only occasionally forgo things we want and our fill-the-bucket list is very full. It is all about emotion. In the long run, the cold atmosphere could damage her health more than her asthma. :-) Though what’s our excuse? Have you given up anything crazy, like reasonable indoor heating, in the interest of frugality? Even cleaning the stove every morning doesn’t bother us, and since I’m the early riser it’s nearly always done by me (who knew I’d be the keeper of the fire around here?). Living in a cold house, apartment, or other building can cause hypothermia. During the winter here in SoCal my house temperature is about 51-59 degrees when I get up in the morning. Now I am trying it with my family, we use gas to fire up the house in the morning to 69 degrees to help get the kids out of bed. We keep it cold at our house unless it is a certain temperature outside. Step 2: google “cleaning service in my area” If personal finance can exist, so can personal frugality! The sole shower was upstairs (not heated) and you could get out of the shower, towel off, and see your breath in the bathroom. Thank goodness spring is on its way! Same as we’d all expect to be hot in the desert. Any portion of the basement that is above ground can and will let the cold air seep in through the cracks, between joists and multiple heat-weak spots. This means that it can produce heat in order to keep your house warm when it is too cold. That’s awesome for you guys though – that is a HUGE cost savings! I’m not sure if the term is still used, but we used to always say we were “living well below our means”. Yeah we don’t complain about the utilities too much – our house has geothermal heating and, as long as it’s working properly, it does a pretty nice job. :-). We love it! I learned a few things. Hahahahaha I wear my wool socks and fleece bathrobe even in my 70 degree house! lol, Everything is going to vary based on a million different variables over the coming decade. I think frugality is good, and each person/family has their price points on what they spend on and what they save on. I really wish I could be the 56 degree house, but I just can’t do it… I literally shiver! Credit cards are paid off monthly, big ticket items (cars, furniture, trips, etc.) :-) Plus our water is priced flat fee, so we wouldn’t save money going your way. In the wintertime here in Arizona, we keep the temperature at 64 inside (yes, it gets COLD here at night in the winter – even below freezing at times!). I can comfortably wear my daily clothes and at night, am plenty comfortable sleeping in a t-shirt and underwear plus a ceiling fan on low. Yes, my electric bills are sky high but if my system burns out I’m just going to buy another one. We never ever used the heat when we lived in apartments and our condo, and I’m positive we benefited from others’ heat. And that’s with a space heater in my office as well! And you make such a great point about the unknown nature of the expense — I bet that’s a big part of our aversion to turning up the temperature. Kuffa explains the affect of cold on your home. He was house sitting in a ranch house in I think Nebraska, and he set it to 45 degrees all winter: Save 90%. January 1, 2018…I’ll be looking forward to hearing where I can get a view of that sky! However, I still consider us to be relatively frugal because of the fact that, right now, we are shelling out well over 50+% of our income, paying off debt and eventually increasing our investment options once we reach debt freedom. The only part that doesn’t fit with this theory is the home theater…hmmm…more data points are needed. Step 4: hang up satisfied knowing you won’t feel guilty about cleaning again. I keep our house colder than my hubby likes, but I am the frugal one. We just want to let you guys know how thankful we are that you’re reading. I had only thought of a few of them. Sitting in my sleeping bag, I began to wonder: If we all set our thermostats to our own “comfortable low,” how many West Virginia mountains could we save? I used a space heater at my desk, lots of clothes in the kitchen and my usual duvet in the bedroom. Oh my! Don’t get me wrong, we still clean between maid visits, but it’s nice knowing we don’t have to use our down-time to do lots of deep cleaning. But for us, it gets warm enough during the day that it usually minimizes the heat that we need to use. Essentially, in our earning years we saved 25% of our salary. Everything goes up so much with a standalone house, especially because you get no benefit from neighbors’ heat. If my utility bill were that high, I’d have to consider those kind of measures, or more likely, I’d have to move! A fire for sure helps! :-). :-) As for camera tips, most of our photos here are just iPhone photos, because we rarely want to lug around the “real” camera. Whether you are working from home or your children are doing schoolwork, keeping the workspace at cooler temps means more productivity. First off, another great pic. Our geothermal heating system helps, too, since it keeps temps more even rather than fluctuating all the time. We’d love to hear it all! Living in the cold has definitely toughened us up! But yes, when you come visit, pack your slippers! The cold temps made my blood recede and benefit my inner organs. It’s now, as I write, 9/25/18; any updates? Think we’re ridiculous for keeping our house so cold when we don’t scrimp in more frivolous areas? I wonder what the neighbors would think, if they saw us bundled up and huddled under blankets, like paupers, while watching Netflix on our decidedly unfrugal home theater? And your numbers are still pretty great! I have an electric blanket that I turn on for 2 hours before bed but turn it off when I get in. Definitely encourage others to read his stuff! So it’ll be interesting to see how that all goes when we start traveling more to hot places. I always used to be cold, and what’s fantastic about living in a cold house is your internal thermostat is forced to adapt. :-). tied up in the triple bottom line concept. Does that mean that our messy house and undone laundry are intentional living too? Hey, guys, welcome to the club! When you need to go buy more organic grocery items, it’s a health/environment issue, so you shell out. We actually did something like this in our house. So here goes confession time: (That’s 13 degrees Celcius.) Think dry skin, chapped lips, and static electricity. I also advocate here to not overheat the house and put on an extra layer of cloths. I may receive commissions from purchases made through links in this article. ;-) Just kidding! I live in a very hot climate where it’s regularly 110f+ outside. I am a 70-year-old man who lives alone in a well-insulated but ventilated static caravan in Scotland. And haha, yeah, I’m the same way with lights. 80 degrees indoors is way too warn. We have robes, but we tell everyone to bring slippers. And that’s actually a habit we picked up well before we started blogging, before we had our retirement timeline set, before we ever thought we’d admit to the internet that we keep our house so cold. It’s a good point about comfort temps and age — we’re in our 30s, and I would be shocked if we’re still living with 56 degrees in, say, our 60s or 70s. 6 Ways to Keep Germs from Spreading Around Your House. We got a lot better when my boyfriend moved in briefly with us and he pointed out how we keep our house really warm just so we can wear our summer clothes inside. We made the challenge to not turn the heat on at all in the upstairs portion of our house, which contains all of the bedrooms. But Gas is dirt cheap. We still have maids that show up every other week, because it’s worth it to us to not have another chore looming over us on our evenings when we’re not working or dealing with kids. It’s one thing to voluntarily spend your money on the things that you’ve decided add value to your life and are worth the additional expenditure; it’s quite another to feel the greedy hands of a giant utility reach into your wallet every month to extract some exorbitant, unknown sum simply for the benefit of not wearing layers for a few hours in the house. I could do that at night, but I don’t know about the daytime. Tiled floors are notorious for being very cold and this cold surface not only causes heat loss but also feels cold on your feet. I’m not particularly extreme in my frugality. And yes, we have an electric blanket, and an electric mattress heater. And it saves a ton of money. My SIL was visiting and (severely) complained how cold our 68 degrees house was! But then again, you are more than making up for that in the summer when you probably aren’t spending much on utilities. Big hugs all around. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Hi. To say that we were floored by it would be a tremendous understatement. Make sure he has a doctors visit soon to ensure he’s not anemic. It sounds at first a bit weird to me. Personally, I’d like to drop it down a bit further at night but my husband likes things warmer. Haha — no cat mutinies! We would say it’s best if you work up to the temp you’re aiming for (or work down to it, as the case may be). Sorry, I cannot imagine 56 on a regular basis – a shiver just ran through my body thinking about it. Though I can’t imagine wearing a jacket if it’s remotely warm at all! Haha — that makes sense! :-) And it sounds like you’re doing pretty well on the finance front — congrats! ;-). Wow — we haven’t met anyone else in the 55 degree club! :-). A couple years ago my furnace died. Haha! When enough cold air infiltrates your home, the humidity might become uncomfortably low. Understanding Reduces Fear // Lessons from the Sky, Around the Personal Finance blogosphere - March 4th, 2016, http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/opinion/this-cold-house.html?referer=, The Road Less Traveled Challenge – Our Next Life, Fessing Up to Our Most Cheapskate Habits – Our Next Life, What If We Retired Today? Since the cooler temperature effects your whole body, it can help reduce overall inflammation. due to our 18 month old. The entire house has steam radiators with oil/steam boiler which is very expensive– I could easily spend $500 a month to keep the house at a constant 68 degrees. And I don’t think we’ve ever gotten cold enough indoors to see our breath… though maybe we have, and I’m just blocking out that memory. Yes, we have a high savings percent, but we also earn more than about 99.9 percent of the planet. ;-) But yeah, totally agree that we should all live below our means. What Keeping Our House Cold Has Taught Us. With love and thanks for a great book! Unfortunately due to health issues, we can’t keep our thermostat that low, but we do keep it lower than we prefer. I’d have to say no because my grandparents lived through the depression and talked about it and, as is so often the case, were affected by the trauma of that era differently. Deliciously Simple Meatballs – Grain Free, Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, keep warm without cranking up that thermostat. We’ll never get sick of that! Haha, yes, you’re right about MMM’s fancy cheese! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I don’t think you’re crazy at all. Help please! Also, I have a candelabra which holds 11 tapers, and they will warm up the dining room. That costs big bucks in a climate like ours and is a huge waste of energy. I don’t think I’ve ever had a larger gas bill than $40 and even that was on the high side and rather uncommon. We know it’s the parks pipes because once the water starts flowing, there’s sand that comes out the faucets and our metered bill is always approximately $35. I think we are all aware that using the heater less means more money saved and I’ve shared how to keep warm without cranking up that thermostat but there are actually a few other reasons to keep your home thermostat set just a bit lower this season! Is it because the cost of all the other things we’re comfortable buying is relatively low (even for a pound of coffee), compared to the extra $200 or more we’d be looking at for more heat? I love being outside. hard. Everything looks nice, smells nice, and has that “almost hotel” feel about it. I was perfectly content and it really cleaned out my colon. He’s been known to walk around the house in his parka too…which makes me laugh…. Wow! I am always hot and sweating. Thanks for an informative post — hope it inspires some readers to put on sweaters and keep the heat down! Copyright 2015 – 2020 Tanja Hester / Our Next Life. Our gas bill has been between $20-40/mo…or less. You’ve made a decision for yourself, choosing to trade some warmth for the ability to save more of your money. We have our house around 60 at night and I would keep it at 62 when we are there during the day/evenings, but he wants it warmer, so we typically have to bump it up to 65 after he complains (but not before.) The cost wasn’t ridiculous, it cost us about $150 a month during winter. Much like caulk around the edges of windows, cold air is kept from flowing in, which means that your house stays warmer for longer without hot air being added by your furnace, which saves you money. So if you come over to our house, you will freeze, and if we come over to your house, we will roast. We had warm, cuddly blankets and clothes (bottoms, too — jeans don’t cut it!) Wait, really? Yes, I have problems – let the replies roll! So keep the dial at 18°C, save money and avoid the negative impacts of a cold home . Speaking of A/C, I don’t know if you follow Gone with the Wynns, but they recently did an experiment on running A/C in the desert off of off-grid solar that made me think of you guys and your Airstream plans. She always had the very best skin and hand creams when I knew her. I sleep very well. Keeping that thermostat lower means you won’t get too cozy. It is to serve as a reminder of how good we have it, but also that even our worst case financial scenario really isn’t a very big deal. Not only does that make a mess, but undetected water leaks could cause mold to grow in your house, which would be quite unhealthy indeed. Except when SIL visits. But on the flip side, if it’s warm at night, I’ll have a horrible night’s sleep. saved up for. No. But if we have company and they opt to run the heat, and that company takes thirty minute showers, leaves the water running while brushing their teeth and shaving, leaves the thermostat at 72 degrees when they’re not even in the house, etc., we have no idea what to expect when the energy and water bills arrive! Great information. That’s really awesome to hear about others you know. No need to suffer just because some random blogger said she keeps her house cold. You know that your fancy coffee is probably better for people and for the planet than super cheap coffee that involves questionable cost-cutting measures, so you shell out. ), Because we really aren’t frugal by any reasonable definition of the word. For that reason alone, I completely understand the unwillingness to turn up your heat! The majority probably sets their thermostat based on average temperatures, or what they’re used to, or what the neighbors do. 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