FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 29, 2018

even Calvin had issues with indoor heating in the winter

Their thermostat is old and may be out of adjustment or needs to be replaced with a modern digital one

When I was a kid, our thermostat was kept at 62°F. If we were cold (or even if just Mom was cold), we put on a sweater.

Are you sure that’s a woman? Aren’t they the ones turning UP the heat….

Rankine scale, actually. U.S. thermostats don’t need no stinkin’ S.I. units.

I discovered the slop in the thermostat. I could turn it up so the furnace kicked in, then move the dial back so it looked like it was at 68°.

There are many things I’m not willing to pay for… freezing isn’t one of them.

In our house we have two thermostats: one for me and one for my wife. Mine is marked off in degrees Fahrenheit; hers has two settings: too hot and too cold.

Wow, Paige actually learned something in science class!

Paige knows about the Kelvin scale??!!

I have it 68F day and 62F night. I used to give an extra buck on the electric bill to help people who couldn’t afford fuel. One day there was a news report about one of the recipients who were glad to get the assistance. They did a shot of the thermostat. 78F degrees!!!! I no longer contribute.

We should be impressed that Paige knows that there is a ‘Kelvin’ scale for temperature.

Freezing in your home instead of turning on your heat makes zero sense to me!

The temperature in my apartment is 18C (64.4F), and I’m not cold. It all depends on what you’re used to.

I feel bad for those kids cold house.My mom when cooler weather came always cold, used to be a floor furnace, most times spent standing over furnace to keep warm, the heat would only go so far not reach the floor. Mom always wore a sweater. In church she wears a fleece and her coat, church not that cool, just my mom was cold blooded. Husband’s mom she keeps the house warm at 85 also cold-blooded, bought electric blanket kept that warm, she was always cold. For me when we had an old furnace I wear a fleece, now with the updated furnace and central, I do not need a jacket.

I leave mine on 64

In my workplace, the same woman who was always cold inside, always walked outside with her overcoat unbuttoned. And I saw other women who did the same thing!

This is warm! I set my thermostat to 64 during the day and 60 at night in the winter. In the summer it is set at 72 during the day and 68 at night. I can always put on more clothes or snuggle in a blanket but there is only so much I can take off before everyone else starts screaming in terror.

I have asthma. Summers, the house must be cool, so I can breathe easier. Winters, a little different. Daytime, heat is set at 74. Night, I must drop it to about 70, again, so I can breathe. Getting into a closed up car any time of the year is hard, the air is so thick. I can drink hot tea, take a shower, dress in layers to warm up. Cooling down is the hardest thing.

just because that’s where the thermostat is set doesn’t mean the house is that temperature, if the insulation is bad all that heat bleeds out before the house can be warmed, wasting tragic amounts of energy and hilarious amounts of money.

When I was a kid I felt the same way… but then I was a stick figure in human clothes back then and not paying the bills.

These days I have a wee bit more padding built in and I do pay the bills, so the heating stays at the lowest moderately comfortable temp, which is about were my folks set it when I was a kid, maybe even a bit lower… funny that 8^)