How low can you go... before you must turn on the heat?

Unfortunately I don't have a choice when to turn on heat. I live in an apartment building and it's up to the landlord to decide when to turn it on, and usually not until after October 15th...why he picked that date, I'll never know

i don't know here it's about 73 or so and i love it with the windows open. at night i get so hot! but i'm also 6 months preggo! so i'm always hot. i think the high 60's would be fine normaly for me but i would have socks on and a blanket. i'm kind of a wuss like that when im not preggo!

All right how low can you go before your health suffers? If you go to 66 degrees and do not get colds, and you are comfortable that is how low you can get. We have to keep our temperature at at least 65 degrees and that is in the evening. I get bronchitis. We prefer 68 to 70 degrees in the daytime and we are not just sitting watching Tbv. I would prefer insulating the house more. So why turn off the heat for winter, why not for summer? I mean how cold does it get where you live? Here in winter it gets down to minus 40 in January.

We finally gave in the other night it has been hitting the low 40s here in Pa. I dont mind so much and neither does hubby but we have kids. The older ones would be easy enough but we have a 21 month old and 10 month old in the house and they get cold so I got hubby to start the outside wood stove/furnace and just turn it down during the day. Right now they are at the park and so I have that off and the doors and window wide open. I prefer it a little chilly then being to hot.

I have been really trying to hold off turning on the heat. I can usually throw on a sweatshirt and be fine. My 14 yr old daughter has been cold a couple of mornings. she has to shower and get ready for school. I have gotten up and turned it up to 68 just to take the chill off for her and then turned it back down. Our heat, thankfully, is included in our rent. Still, our rent goes up due to heating costs and so I am really trying to be conservative. What is killing us is that I live in subsidized housing. I work and so yes, my rent is going up substantially this year due to heating costs. I'm not sure exactly how much but I am a bit nervous as I struggle now. There are people here on welfare that do not work at all and I have heard them complain about the cold and how they've cranked their heat. I get frustrated because their rent will not be affected at all. They are safe and sound and they don't care. I'm sure not all people on welfare are this careless but where I live there seems to be an awful lot of them that are.

I am one of those people who are always warmer than anyone else. Even my temperature when taken runs two degrees higher than normal. It used to be I could blame this on hot flashes, but those have past so now I know its just me. So having the heat set at a low number is good for me. However, my parter is one who is always freezing. He is forever complaining of the cold. Even with the AC set at 77 the other day he said he was cold. I just told him to put a sweatshirt on because I wasn't taking anything else OFF. LOL In winter we use flannel sheets to keep the poor guy warm, and a heated mattress pad as well. So while he is toasty warm, I'm turning the fan on and sleeping on top the covers trying to stay cool. But, at least we don't fight over who gets the blanket.

I am not quite sure how low we go LOL My hubby is always hot so we are constantly battling the thermostat. I do try to keep it around 70 though. For the last 2 days we have only had the windows open, we go work out, get home and the house is a bit warm - 79 - mainly because I had shut some windows before we left. Instead of opening them up, he closes the few that are open and puts on the A/C! We have the A/C set on 77 and it is 71 outside....

I can take a lot of cold before turning on any heat. I was tempted Saturday morning when it got down to 48 but I just put on my thermal pajamas and put my throw blanket around my shoulders. It warmed up to about 65 so I was fine. We don't use the furnace much at all. We use space heaters mostly during the winter and we don't turn any of those on until it stays about 58 or below during the day. The only time we turn on the furnace is when it gets below about 20 degrees and that's to keep the pipes in the basement from freezing. I will usually turn it on and get the house nice and warm then shut it off until morning. Unless it gets really windy outside I don't leave it on overnight. We do everything we can to save money on the gas and electric bills. I have a good supply of thermal jammies and sweaters to wear around the house and several throw blankets that I keep in the livingroom all winter long.

We already gave in. It has been in the low 40s here at night and we have an older house so it gets pretty cold. We probably could have held out longer but we have an infant in the house so we need to keep him warm. if it was just the adults we would have stuck it out longer. I am afraid it is going to be an expensive winter trying to stay warm.

Well my husband broke down and turned it on last night. It was 62 in our house as he went to bed and although the kids were sleeping and covered up he didn't want them to freeze. Unfortunately I think we will have to leave it on at night from now on. It is suppose to be in the 40's tonight. I was hoping we could get through October before the heat went on but I guess that is not going to happen.

IT has ben in the mid forties overnight and early in the morning and my husband has had the heat on already! He also has a space heater on in the bedroom (as our baseboard heaters aren't working yet in that room). It is way too hot for me already. He'll have the thermostat up to 80! I can't wait to see my electric bill (LOL).