Comments on The Green Phone Booth: Re-calibrating your internal thermostat

Love it! We freeze our buns as well in the winter...

2010-01-25T19:31:15.136-08:00

Love it!

We freeze our buns as well in the winter. Today I had to peal my sweater off because it was so hot in our house. I looked at our little thermometer and it was 69*. (Our house was built with tons of windows for passive solar heating.) Gotta love free heat!

A friend rented a house that was built to be a sum...

2010-01-25T18:52:57.804-08:00

A friend rented a house that was built to be a summer cottage. In winter it never got above 55. She told us she never showered there; always worked out at the Y, showered there, stayed warm that way. Then she got pregnant and proclaimed, "We're moving!" You two could exchange stories of long underwear!

I felt the same way when I got that same email. L...

2010-01-25T13:59:39.978-08:00

I felt the same way when I got that same email. Like, um I wear a sweatshirt at home instead of short sleeves? That's not really newsworthy!

Today the temp is abnormally high outside, 55 degrees, and the heat was still on at school. I cleaned my classroom after work and it was SOOOOOO hot. I've found that I feel hot in other people's houses, so hot when it's only like 70.

You can send the Weather Channel my way! I keep th...

2010-01-25T10:49:51.614-08:00

You can send the Weather Channel my way! I keep the heat set at 58 during the day and I work at home. I wear layers, drink hot tea, and snuggle up to my CPU. It surprising but both my and my husband's computer's put out quite a bit of heat and act as little space heaters in our office.

"It's amazing what people are able to ada...

2010-01-25T09:50:39.423-08:00

"It's amazing what people are able to adapt to"--exactly! Kudos to you and your fam. I'd encourage you all to sign the Architecture2030 petition, which would provide tax credits for things like super efficient furnaces and awesome insulation: http://www.architecture2030.org.

i'm with eco yogini, i cannot wait until the d...

2010-01-25T07:31:31.329-08:00

i'm with eco yogini, i cannot wait until the day i can have my own home and control heating. it's so inefficient having someone else control my heat because my super has no idea when we're home and not. i get cold very easily but i'm hoping that with a programmable thermostat i could arrange for the home to be frigid during sleeping and office hours to make up for the warmth that i need the rest of the time.

We've lowered ours but only to 67 in the day a...

2010-01-25T05:40:48.911-08:00

We've lowered ours but only to 67 in the day and 62 at night. I can handle it but the rest of my family is constantly complaining! We REALLY need to replace our system and ductwork but ouch.

They contacted me too and I begged off because of ...

2010-01-25T05:28:27.228-08:00

They contacted me too and I begged off because of extreme shyness--but also because it just seems like our life. We're cold; so what? Sometimes we are so cold we complain. Sometimes we are so cold we laugh. But it just isn't much of a story to tell the Weather Channel! We are at 58-59 during the day--but when we crank it up to 62 it is comfy, isn't it?! I think we'll have to get a more efficient heater...

oh I wish we could participate in something like t...

2010-01-25T05:13:19.654-08:00

oh I wish we could participate in something like this- currently our thermostat is set at 10 degrees celcius... and it gets to -20 or more outside here.... and our apartment REMAINS above 20, sometimes we have to OPEN the windows it's so hot.

seriously, some of the older people in our building must have the heat CRANKED.

In any case, it's been so hot that we've adjusted to the heat and now when we visit friends we FREEZE. Grrr. wish we had more control over our heating.

someday.