Every time the seasons change, thermostat wars break out in our household. My wife insists that September is much too early to be turning up the heat, even if it's 50 degrees in the house. Come May or so, she insists that it's too early to put on the A/C, even if the temps in the house are close to 80.
She also insists on opening windows in the spring as soon as the temperature outside gets close to 60 degrees. Granted, 60 degrees in April when you're outside feels quite comfortable. But it's not a comfortable temperature for sitting in the house. What's more, she ignores the fact that the 60 degree temps will drop into the 40's after the sun goes down. And 44 degrees is definitely not a good temperature for anything in the house, unless you're a bottle of milk in the refrigerator.
Larger battles loom, though. When we're at 80 degrees outside, I'll put on the A/C. And invariably she'll say, "but there's such a nice breeze."
"Yeah," I'll reply, "but it's an 80-degree breeze."
This evening I turned the thermostat up to 70. Sometime in the middle of the night she's going to turn it way down, and I'll wake up with icicles in my nostrils.
I'm really tempted to pitch a tent for her in the back yard.
What'cha think?