Granted, I live in a warm clime, so this tip isn’t perhaps for everyone.
We keep our thermostat on 60 during the cool months. The rule is: If you’re cold, start a fire, put on a sweater, grab a cat to cuddle. If you’re still cold after taking all those steps, go to bed. (Then you get 4 cats to cuddle)
It keeps our power bill under $60/mo from say…November-March, and helps with the carbon footprint.
In addition, we dry clothes on a clothesline, wash in cold water only, recycle/compost more than we throw in the garbage.
This post was submitted by Margret Raines.
I don’t know if you can answer this. If not, maybe someone else can. What’s the lowest I could keep my thermostat at (I’m in New England) without having my pipes freeze and consequently burst?
Comment by Kerri — September 28, 2009 @ 3:46 pm