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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:56 pm
My roommates constantly have the heat on so that our house is warm enough of the guy to take his shirt off. At first I'd turn the heat down all the time all the way but they'd turn it up more, and so eventually I got them down to a still high but median temperature.
Now I'm used to it being warm all the time. I only just got up to turn the heat down because they'll still be gone for a few hours yet and they've been gone all day!
Grumble.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:03 pm
I'm pretty lucky that I don't have to deal with too much of that.
My mother is poor, so I didn't have a problem when I lived with her.
My father has money but is very frugal, so I didn't have a problem there.
And my partner is both strapped for money and concerned about the environment, so I don't have a big problem with him. Although he does sometimes leave lights on, and he does like the AC in the summer. He's always hot, but I could do without it. I keep telling him if he'd go veg he'd probably lose some weight and be cooler. xp
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:05 pm
Haha... I had this EXACT problem during my first year at a university, where I shared a campus-owned apartment with 3 other girls I didn't know. They constantly kept the heat at 78 or higher (sometimes 82! O_O) and I was burning up, I couldn't sleep because it was so hot in there, and I couldn't put my window down overnight because I shared my bedroom with another girl. They would come home form the bars in tank tops and blast the heat instead of putting on more clothes. When I confronted them about it, and the environmental impact of it, I pretty much got eye rolling and was told since they didn't pay for the electric bill, they didn't care how much energy they wasted, they didn't care about the environment (which was proven even more correct after one of the roommates used a ridiculously LARGE amount of water every single day in the morning just by turning the faucet on full blast, leaving it on while she brushed her teeth, went to the bathroom, did her make-up, and went into her bedroom and then only turned it off after she was done with it... she claimed to do this so that she wouldn't have to keep turning the water back on... yeah, ridiculously lazy, I know). And because I was outnumbered 3-to-1, I couldn't do much of anything, and explaining why they shouldn't wouldn't do any good anyway. It really sucks that there's nothing you can do about it, and if you're anything like me, the stress level of getting so angry about it is even more of a pain. Eventually you will move somewhere else where you'll have control of the thermostat and live with less-selfish people (or yourself!) in the future. Just tough it out until then.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:26 pm
We've been turning it off after they go to bed and then in the morning turning it on to 15 so that if they think it's cold they'll just turn it back up to 20.
That's my hope.
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