Wednesday's Question of the Day: heating?

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Have you turned your heater on yet for the season? (If you are in the Southern hemisphere, have you turned it off?) What do you use to stay warm at home in the winter?

I'm this close -> <- to turning our furnace on, waiting for it to get a little colder during the day. We don't use it at night, it's an old oil-burning furnace in the basement that heats up to 450° F, even though the maintenance people always say it's in good shape, I'm way too paranoid to have that thing running at night when we are all asleep.

It's pretty cold all summer long here by the Pacific, but the Texan in me won't let me use the furnace in the summer, so we have fires in the fireplace some summer nights to get the chill out.
 
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I have one of those quartz electric furnaces in the basement and just turned it on when the temp dipped below freezing. Keeps the floor warm and if the basement in this house gets cold, it never warms up. No heaters turned on upstairs yet.
 

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Well, it's still getting into the 70s and 80 during the day here, so if I open the windows during the day and close them before it gets cold, the house stays fairly warm all night. I have been running the space heater in my bedroom now and then though.

I have a nice modern forced-air natural gas furnace, so I just set the thermostat and that's it. But it does get cold upstairs (drafty old houses!) so I have a space heater in my bedroom. And one in the upstairs bathroom so I don't freeze while getting dressed.
 
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I am still running the ac window units(2).

My husband did turn the heater on next to his desk.  He also wears thermals almost all year-I don't get it shaking head, and my mom was ALWAYS cold growing up but thermals if its 70 or 80 out...ugh.

We have multiple space heaters we use as main heater does not work.  But when it did it was GREAT in floor heat on the entire first floor meant ALWAYS warm and also cats always spread out and me doing the walk-shuffle to get around haha.
 
 

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No, where I live temperatures are still warm enough to need A/C.  But there is definitely a change in the air and it feels like fall is coming.  We have a heat pump for heat and gas logs in the living room fireplace.
 
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No heat here yet. I have the windows open and use the fan mode on the window a/c at night. It's getting cooler, but not enough for heat yet.
 

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Seeing as it's still in the 90s during the day here, no. :lol3:

I think I used my heater maybe twice all last winter. I rarely have an occasion to use it in Orlando, and I prefer it cooler anyway. :D
 

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No heat here yet. We have electric heat in the house, so we usually wait until we absolutely have to turn the heat on and we refuse to turn it on at all until we're no longer using the pool pump outside. We did shut the pool down last week, so we're good there.

We tend to keep our house rather chilly in the winter, usually around 65 degrees or so. (And to me? That's chilly.) It's getting close to me putting flannel sheets on the bed as we've been getting into the upper 40s at night (but it might be just ups and downs right now as it's only September). Once the night temps stay in the 40s or so, I'll get the electric blanket out and throw that on the bed. The cats know about the blanket and, once the cold weather gets here, they will walk around the house meowing until I go back and turn the blanket on....then they'll go back to the bed and snuggle in the warm blanket, especially the older cats who tend to mind the cold.

I'm a wuss and I really mind the cold, so it doesn't have to get too chilly before it starts bothering me. I'd much rather be too hot than cold.
 

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It was 44F when I woke up this morning and I was sorely tempted. But a light jacket, fleece throw and two cats got me through it. :lol3:
 

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It's in the 60s during the day and in the 30s/low 40s at night right now, so we'll probably have to turn on the heat pretty soon.
 

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Oh, dear. I turned my heat off in my apartment about 20 years ago! :lol3: They insist on turning it on in October in this building, and it was so hot, I was wearing shorts and a tank top in my apartment in the middle of winter. Ugh. I hated that! I don't mind the cold anyway.

And I get the morning sun, (I face east) and am surrounded by other apartments, that are warm, so I'm just fine with that. If it gets really cold, I put on an extra sweater, or throw an extra quilt on the bed.

I should have been a pioneer woman. :D
 

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Not yet!  I just started putting the baby in sleepers about a week ago.  DD is in long pants and long sleeves at night; but it's a thin material.  We are still running our ceiling fans and the AC too.  Some mornings we sneak into the kids rooms to shut the fans off though.  The way our weather swings here; we usually go from air to heat directly.  We don't sleep with windows open because of all the allergy sufferers here.  Plus that makes me very nervous with the kids rooms.  It would also let in the street noise and while I can sleep through it; I'm not chancing it with the kids!  I do love airing things out during the day when I can!
 

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No, not yet. I prolong it as long as possible. I'm allergic to dust and cats. Fun, right? :lol3: I need to vacuum all the baseboards out before it goes on and them I start it up with all the windows open to burn off whatever is on there. If I don't do this, I can't breathe when it goes off.
 

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I broke down last night and turned on the heat! It was 39 degrees !!! I love the cold weather though - SO happy it is on it's way. :clap::clap:
 

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It was down in the mid-50s last night here.  The kitties love this cooler weather. They have all been acting like psycho cats for the last two days.  I saw Silly chasing S&S in and out through the door several times today.  At one point, I had a 5-cat train rumbling from one end of the house to the other.  That gives them 46 feet each direction to get to full steam.  Sounded like a herd of ponies.
 

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My heatings on in the office now, but l haven't had to put it on at home yet. It's quite a warm house anyway, and l've just had the cavity walls insulated so that should keep the heat in even more.

One thing though l won't be cold, so the minute l am it's getting switched on
 
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