Can you be frugal when it comes to air conditioning?

Hi eaforeman6! The electricity cost here in our country is very high which made us decide not to use the air conditioning unit for a long time now. We use the electric fan more often nowadays and since the past months had been cooler, we have also didn't use much of the fans. I guess if I will be using the air condition in really hot days, I will just have to turn it on for two hours. I usually turn it in low for a few minutes, then turn it high for the rest of the two hours, then turn it off..then will turn on the electric fan. Take care and have a great day! lovelots..faith

Yes...I don't like being cold so mine is not turned up really very much. I am sure some people think it's too hot in my house in the summer...I'll remind them of that when they visit yet this winter....they say the house is too cold then! (my son!)

We keep ours set on 75% and use a fan to circulate air. Most of the time that is fine.

Yes I can be frugal with the air conditioning because I do not turn it on until the house gets to 85 degrees F and I sit under the ceiling fans. Most of the summer I sit wet or damp in my bathing suit and when I get to hot I jump in the swimming pool. I hope that Daisy May will love to swim this summer I want to teach her to dive off the diving board and get the balls.

We keep it at 75 degrees F when we are home and 80 degrees when we are not home. Many people keep it much, much cooler.

I had one but finally gave it away. The heat doesn't seem to bother me as much anymore. I always keep the windows open. I wear short pants and the last couple of years did ok.

Luckily I live somewhere that does not get that warm during the Summer for the most part so to have an Air Conditioner is not really that necessary. For me, I feel that it is better to have a sliding glass door open or something instead unless it is really warm, then we will have our Fan on us as well. Personally since it never really gets extremely warm here like in other states this is a bigger savings on our Electric bill for sure.

We only run the ac when the weather is uncomfortably humid and hot. We run the fans quite a bit. Putting a fan in one window to blow the cool air in and another in a window at the opposite end of the house to push the warmer air out is one way to conserve.

72 degrees will work fine.. I will have it on energy saver. And if it is still not good enough, I will make sure that all windows and doors are covered with heat fillers so that the room will feel much colder.. I would also buy curtains that tend to keep the house much cooler. I will also make sure that the air is going on and off too.

Well what me and my family do is that we don't use the airconditioner anymore and just settle for the electric fan. We have to do this so that we could save money and spend it on more important things.

We have an ancient central air system. It still works, but it really sucks up the electric! We haven't used it in several summers. We have a small window unit upstairs in a centrally located area. We shut all the bedrooms during the day so that we are not paying to cool them. I shut the extra rooms downstairs too. I block the kitchen door with a sheet (there is no door). If I cook, most of the heat stays in the kitchen and therefore the air conditioner is not having to work so hard. At night, we close the downstairs completely off and open the bedrooms up to get the AC to cool them off so we can sleep. We have a very shady house and a stone basement foundation. Both these details help our house to stay quite cool as long as there is not a lot of humidity. Once the humidity starts (July and August are really humid), then we turn on the air. We use fans (ceiling and oscillating table fans) in our bedrooms at night whether the ac is on or not. It's just more comfortable. We use the ceiling fan in the dining room downstairs if it is especially hot during the day. For the most part, the little AC upstairs is able to keep up for most of the summer!

Well, my bills are usually low in the summer because I live in an apartment. I am really hoping to be moving sometime this year into a house or duplex. But as for air, I only have a wall unit and it bearly cools this place at all. I keep it on all summer long cause I am in Iowa and the summers are so humid and hot. I do not like the heat at all. I have really bad allergies and ashma so I have to keep it on so I can breathe. Plus the heat gives me bad headaches to. I just wish I had two wall units in this place. So I use box fans to circulate the air around. Plus I sweat so badly so I try to stay indoors when the weather is so hot. You are lucky you have central air!

We just got air conditioning installed last year. Beore that we just had ceiling fans. We kept the thermostat set at 75. I often would turn it off and only use it wan it was very humid. My husband works in an air conditioned officce so he's used to it being cool. I would turn it on before he got home and then I'd spend the evening outside where it was warm. I'm so sick of cold weather I can't even think abut putting on the sir conditioning.