My first floor is at 16 celcius, the rest of the house is unheated, while your house is at 20 and you're complaining. But, we do live in the south where its not that cold for very long. We don’t scrimp and rarely tell ourselves no. Smart Grocery Shopping When You Have Diabetes, Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Dogs and Cats, Coronavirus in Context: Interviews With Experts. I have just introduced this way of living to my family and had just started to live in colder temps. But if we could save, we’d probably consider military showers! If you clean up the mold but don't fix the problem, the mold will most likely return. He was house sitting in a ranch house in I think Nebraska, and he set it to 45 degrees all winter: In the meantime, after resolving never to deal with last year’s wood supplier again, I put in an order mid-winter for this year’s cord, with a more reliable source– only to have that source completely disappear mid-summer (phone number disconnected, website gone, etc.) I’m so glad that you enjoyed my post about the Great Depression. So glad you guys got to UT! Which are not at all aesthetically pleasing, or especially inexpensive, but do stack nicely. :-) (But, like no, for real. This is because cold houses are also usually damp, which can lead to respiratory symptoms. It looks cosy and comfortable too. :-) Though we can get a roaring fire going to help heat things up — we just don’t buy enough wood to do that full-time! :-) But I’d say: Take your time, take several shots in each place to give yourself options, and start to get attuned to the light. We have a woodstove and do that sometime, but don’t want to buy enough expensive firewood to keep our house toasty. People with certain disabilities, children and the elderly also fall into higher risk categories. Check for leaks around the kitchen sink, refrigerator ice makers, and other sources of water. Taking pictures when the light is good is what elevates a snapshot to a quality picture. I’d rather spend my money on other things. 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? If your goal is minimizing your household’s overall energy consumption, is it better to throw the beer straight into the fridge, or put it out on the porch until it’s cold, then put it in the fridge? 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?). We never ever used the heat when we lived in apartments and our condo, and I’m positive we benefited from others’ heat. We are looking at various other options (pellet boilers, mini-splits, nuclear) but one way or another by next winter we will probably have something that operates with one of those new-fangled “thermo-stats” that you hear about. (These fees cover blog expenses only, and do not net a profit for us.). We’ll share where we live in two years when we quit our jobs. Youâre exposed to mold every day. If the cold is a deal breaker for you, then it’s worth paying for heat. The coldest I’ve ever seen this house, according to the upstairs thermostat, is 57 degrees, and 56 downstairs, so no one is going to freeze to death! But with the price of a movie ticket around here $15+ and Redbox being $1.60, there is just no way I can see going often anymore. :-) We’re hugely unfrugal in a ton of other ways, which more than offset our one virtuous thing. I really wish I could be the 56 degree house, but I just can’t do it… I literally shiver! Yes, I have problems – let the replies roll! Keep air conditioning drip pans clean. In other home-energy news, the solar panels continue churning out the juice. 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. Haha — I can picture that kind of moment. Haha — thankfully we have never resorted to full-on outerwear in the house! In the summer we don’t have a/c so it is warmer (I will use a fan for sleeping). In July they promised us two cords of kiln-dried in early October. :-) (Though I will confess that I totally love it too.) We live in a cold place, so it’s not crazy to be cold sometimes. But if I just give it the right mind set, it’s cold, yes, and refreshing! This has worked SO well and has been a terrific investment for cold … I once lived in a house in KY that was so poorly insulated that even with most all of the rooms closed off, it cost $400/month to keep the place at 60F. They can be black, white, orange, green, or purple. Someone cooking, showering or just breathing in such a small and tight space is going to … Maximum 66.9º, minimum 42.9. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. Wow. Wohoo! Not that our sky is that blue every day, but that is what you get in the cold, dry mountain air, way up high. Step 2: google “cleaning service in my area” Well, I have to admit, it is nice to come downstairs in the morning and find that the kitchen is 56º instead of, say, 46º. For insulation, Laird uses vacuum insulated panels that have an R value of R60 per inch; he puts R68 in the floor and roof and R38 in the walls. We do have one petroleum-burning device in the house (a Rinnai propane heater in the cellar), but ironically we only turn it on if we’re going to be away from the house for a few days, to make sure the pipes (and cats) stay liquid. 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. Why does it warrant its own set of logic? Cutting out alcohol and soda? I only lived there that one winter…. :-) And yes, we’d recommend that everyone try going up or down a few degrees on the thermostat to see if you could adapt to a temp that requires less energy. I am not joking. I am still tinkering with the boiler set-up in an attempt to actually make it stay in condensing mode as much as possible, which requires that its return-water temp stay below 130º as much as possible. Also, I went skiing for a while. Here’s the temperature graph so far: In terms of fuel usage… we’ve burned 5,900 cu. Yes, we have a high savings percent, but we also earn more than about 99.9 percent of the planet. It has many moving parts and a manual of computer codes and fault messages that resembles ones I’ve seen from the Apollo navigation system. We actually did something like this in our house. (Though actually we are supposed to have rain and record warmth tomorrow…). I think more so it gets me out quicker than when I used to take long warm showers. I don’t think that being frugal is not crazy at all and is more reality. But hey, if you’re not paying, then it’s one less thing to worry about or calculate, and that’s a big positive. But yeah, we fully recognize that 56 is borderline crazy. Everything on this blog is provided for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to substitute for obtaining professional financial advice. Hey, guys, welcome to the club! Marmot said: "The many physical and mental health problems linked to cold homes described in this report are distressing. I still can’t believe that you buy organic on $200 a month… do you eat like Gwyneth Paltrow?? Invisible Sustainability Meets the Disappear Retreat, Screwdriver Is Only Tool Needed to Build Super-Insulated Pop-Up House, Man's $15K Tiny House Has DIY Elevator Bed & Heated Ceiling (Video). And yeah, if we *had* to live without heat, we know we’d survive. Wow — we haven’t met anyone else in the 55 degree club! Ft. I have my fingers crossed. More than one in four adolescents living in a cold house are at risk of mental health problems, compared to one in 20 teens who have always lived in warm homes. I’m hoping my kids catch on like I did, and it saves us some green. Wash and dry them promptly. :-) Though what’s our excuse? If it went in their kiln that way (and I suspect it did), no wonder they needed an EPA air quality permit for the thing. Have you looked into maybe better insulate the house? Everything looks nice, smells nice, and has that “almost hotel” feel about it. Does the Passive House Standard Make Sense in Cold Climates? Mold in the house isn’t just a problem for people with allergies or asthma. I do not like the cold. ), so have to use the furnace some, but we definitely plan to find our own firewood once we’re retired, so we can get it for less than the extortion rates we have to pay in our area. We don’t use heat at all, we have our thermostat turned completely off. Haha. Sometime as a child (with painfully frugal parents), I had a Scarlett O’Hara moment, “I will never be too hot or too cold again!” So I make lots of money so I can have heating when it’s cold and a/c when it’s warm. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. In a true Christmas miracle, the guys who promised me firewood back in July, and have been telling us increasingly strange stories since early October about why it hadn’t arrived yet, finally actually showed up with it. Someone cooking, showering or just breathing in such a small and tight space is going to generate a lot of moisture which could lead to icing and mould even with quadruple paned windows, so some form of fresh air supply is going to be required. I do use a programmable thermostat to drop it down considerably during the day when we’re not there and only turn it up from around 5-10pm during the week and the daytime on the weekends. Somewhere back when I wasn’t paying attention they hit the 10 megawatt hour mark. :-) And know thyself, right? :), 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. Or maybe I was pushed. We have an interesting strategy to make the most of the heat we do allow though. I was a little late (Dec. 7) in firing up the datalogger this year, but we now have a couple weeks of temperature data to report.
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