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How cold is COLD to you? It seems when people talk about it being so cold, it's not really cold to me. Of course, it's what you are used to. One does acclimatize to one's environment.

And what temperature do you set your thermostat to in wintertime (if you do have winter, obviously)?

To me COLD is probably anything -20C or below (-4F). My thermostat is set at 15C (59F) during the day and 14C (57F) overnight. I sleep in a room without heating even in the coldest day in winter (down to -40's C, which I think is the same in F). I would just turn on my mattress heater and fan heater for about an hour before bed to take the chill out, and turn them off when I go to bed. I had tried sleeping in a heated room and that just about killed me. Most of my critters are well-furred, and my reptiles and tarantulas have their own heating systems.

graceylou 8 Dec 7
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My house gets down to 65F during the day (no heating)
At night it is at 70 F (with heating)
This would change if I had warmer blankets since I am cheap.

Myah Level 6 Dec 7, 2018

If you have a Sam Club,and can get in, they sell in the winter time,thick blankets 5' wide and 6' long,perfect for beds,throws I believe.

Thanks for the suggestions!

To give perspective when I lived in a hot place I would let the temperature get up to 80 F before I would think about turning on the AC.
Then I would turn it to 75 for sleeping

So my range is ~60-80 F when I am awake
70-75 when I am asleep

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omg...my thermostat is set at 68F and I have my small space heater on as well in the room I am watching my laptop!!!

I do sleep with a mattress heater as well...I turn it on about an hour and then turn it to half when I go to bed...plus, I sleep with socks, a hat, and pjs in the winter...

It is 34F and I think it is miserable!

You sleep with a hat? That's so freakin' cute!

If I sleep alone I wear a t shirt with my panties. If I’m with someone I sleep naked as it gets hot too fast with another person in bed. I can’t stand socks and pants or long nightgowns in bed.

@graceylou brrrrrr...I am going to get my sweater...my little heater is not enough...it is only 72F in my room...brrrrr ha ha ha

I sleep naked when I am with my love as well...

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I would die in your house. Cold + spiders = my worst nightmare ?

@Morganfreeman Spiders and most insects don't survive long in my house, I have a few very environmentally friendly bug eradicators called House Geckoes who keep their numbers down to zero, free of charge.
The geckoes moved in with every load of firewood I've collected from the bush each winter, I'd guess there'd be at least 100+ living in and around the house by now, they've been breeding like rabbits over the years.

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Cold is when I literally can't feel my face. Until then its ok, though I prefer sleeping in the cold, its so much more relaxing plus being able to curl up under a blanket is the best feeling ever.

Cold is when you inhale and the hairs in your nose freeze.

@Dragon64 Thats usually when you gag if you breathe through your nose. That shit the worst

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In tbe Fall, here in Ct, we start bundling up! (Around 55 degrees...brrrrr!) When the Spring comes, i find myself happy without a coat quute often. (Around 55 degrees...oh how beautiful!)
It is what you are acclimated to.

I remember that!

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Oh, thought you were talking about beer.

godef Level 7 Dec 7, 2018

Lol. Nope. I don’t drink beer or any alcohol.

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I like to be warm under the covers and have the window open

Oh well don't we all?? Good one my friend !!!

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In my younger years I use to say as long as it was above 35 and under 100, over time the low increased by 15 and the high came down 15., now days, it has to be between 75 and 85 or I'm not there. On the other hand, my sister-in-law, from Mich. Would do yard work in short sleeve, light shirts, and shorts when it was in low 40s. And talk about Texas having such "nice" weather year round.

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I've always been pretty hot blooded naturally and I've got nothing but electric heaters at the moment but you've impressed even me lol. I think it's between 50 and 60F in my house at the moment and thats just about perfect to me. Without the heaters going on low intermittently itd be between 30-40 in here and thats fine if Im dressed/active but would be pushin it to shower and sleep in. Outdoors with a jacket and hat or hoodie, the chill doesn't normally reach my bones til it's pretty close to single digits.

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I'd love my home to be a bit lower temp but my housemates get cold easily. So I'm in shorts and a tank top and they're bundled up with blankets. It's in the 40sF right now in the PNW. Everyone's in winter gear and I maybe throw on a hoodie.

I lived in Northern Minnesota for fifteen years, though, and I have an internal thermostat that always runs hot, but the winters in Duluth were too much even for me. When it gets cold enough to be lethal (people passing out in the snow only made the news if they survived ) that's just not a place to live, IMO. During the polar vortex it was warmer on Mars. I said fuck that noise and now I'm here.

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37F here in Missouri,snow forecasted for tomorrow,not too bad as long as there's no wind but the chilling factor can take it below zero,when it does,so careful layering of clothes is needed.

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The older I get, the less I'm tolerant of the cold. To top it off, I have recently been diagnosed with Raynoud's Disease.

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My bloods turns to jelly when it drops below 70F. During the winter, my heat turns on if it drops below 72F in the house. During the summer, the AC turns on if it gets to be 82F in the house. 72-82 is my sweet spot 🙂

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We have a new-ish and well insulated home. Temp is set to 72F daytime, 69F nightime. We have a gas fireplace that we have on quite often in winter.

A lot of what feels / seems cold has to do with the rate at which heat is leaving or entering a building. If it's -20F outside than it "feels" way colder at a given heat setting indoors than it would if it were, say, 40F. Also, humidity is a factor. Cold and damp is way more uncomfortable (for me, at least) than cold and dry. Wind chill is a huge factor outside.

So I don't have a hard-and-fast temp that I consider COLD. On a damp, windy, cloudy day where it's snowing, 30F might be brutally cold. On a dry, still, sunny day, it might need to be 10F or maybe 0F to get that effect on me. But if you are happy as a clam anywhere above -4F then you are better insulated than I am. Which is not unusual; women generally ARE tougher in this respect, as they on average have more subcutaneous fat per square inch which serves as effective insulation. When I was a kid I could never understand why the girls (dating myself here, this is the late 1960s, early 1970s) would walk to school in the dead of winter in a skirt with bare legs whereas I was miserable in long pants. Well, that's why.

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Below 70 F is cold for me.

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I live in Victoria and have shed all that hardy interior and prairie vigor. I now think it's cold at 5degrees! Sigh.....

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Everyone makes fun of me being an embarrassment to Canadians. I am always cold. It’s 68F(20C) in Houston. It’s very humid here so you always have the heat or AC on. It’s difficult to just open your windows. Today I’ve got the heat set at 73 and I’m under blankets.

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If it's calm, under -20, if it's windy... under -5 to -10. Great white north and all that jazz. 😛

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Cold for me is -25C with a wind chill below -30. It's the wind that sucks the heat out.
I keep my thermostat at 20 because I like a warm house.

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I honestly have zero gauge. I think there may be something wrong with me. I don't get cold (at all - have gotten the frostbite without realizing it to prove it, although that grew back so I guess I don't have the proof), and some days I'm really good with heat, others I can't move. I suppose I'm most comfortable at like 65F to 75F, but it usually has me overheating...it's just the acceptable range for most people near me.

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It depends on the humidity. Humid and cold is much worse than dry and cold. It is the same with the heat. 100 degrees F in central Texas is miserable. 100 degrees in the desert is not that bad.

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Here in Florida below 70F is cold for me, I've acclimated from the Northeast when 60F in the spring was ideal!

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I acclimatise pretty quickly. Living in Sydney, I used to think anything below 15°C as cold. Now I live in Manchester, it's anything below 5°C. The house is kept at 18°C for the kids. When I backpacked around SE Asia, within a week I was fine with constant 30°C and 90% humidity.

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Indoors, I need at least 70 (21C) (given that my place doesn't have insulation in the walls -- I live in Louisiana, it seems to be far too common) during the day in my apartment, but given the lack of wall insulation, I'm often cold at that temp. Overnight I don't mind it being cold; I've been dropping the temps to 58 or so (15C). Outdoors, it's much more complicated for me. I lived in Minnesota until I was 12, so I experienced temps close to -40 (before adjusting for the wind chill), though we were out of school when it was that cold. I haven't lived there for a long time, and some of the coldest temps where I've felt really cold over the past 20 years were temps just above freezing, but in places like Mexico City or even Brazil where they don't have heating, making it feel worse than it is. I suspect that the feeling attached to those temps were due to lack of adjustment to those temps, lack of heat, perhaps not dressing like I would in most situations with those temperatures due to travel or the randomness of those lows.

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Cold, I wish it was cold here, about 37 degrees Celsius atm, and only going to get even bloody hotter, the lizards are already carrying waterbags around with them....LOl.

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