Stop the office AC overload: Study shows women are more productive when it’s warmer

[laylalex 7,284]

55 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Good lord, I'd be dead. I like keeping it around 68 summer. 70 in the winter. It's one of the comforts of America, the hubby now can't do without.

When my ex first moved here in the middle of December 2010, he was disgusted with how there was AC everywhere in the LA area. Like, what, you can't just open the windows? He quickly became a convert once late July 2012 rolled around.  

 

Fiance has no opinion, which is good  , because I would just go ahead and do what I want anyway! I almost agree with those indoor temps, but I'd flip it -- 70 in the summer and 68 in the winter. Also we are up in the Bay Area now, not down in Pasadena, so the number of AC days is significantly lower in general.

52 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    I have actually adjusted to it somehow. I used to be soaked with sweat and now I'm not. If I compromise and set it to somewhere around 80, it's usually OK. If I set it lower, my wife just turns it off rventually. She doesn't notice till somewhere in the 90's I'd guess.

 

   It bugs me more in the winter when she sets it to 80. The furnace can't actually get the house that warm so it just runs all day. 

The sooner you accept once and for all that the woman should be in charge of the thermostat the happier you will be. Promise.

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40 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

     Thermostat with a pin?  Well I guess I have some googling to do now. 

 

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Pin number dude 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

3 minutes ago, laylalex said:

When my ex first moved here in the middle of December 2010, he was disgusted with how there was AC everywhere in the LA area. Like, what, you can't just open the windows? He quickly became a convert once late July 2012 rolled around.  

 

Fiance has no opinion, which is good  , because I would just go ahead and do what I want anyway! I almost agree with those indoor temps, but I'd flip it -- 70 in the summer and 68 in the winter. Also we are up in the Bay Area now, not down in Pasadena, so the number of AC days is significantly lower in general.

The sooner you accept once and for all that the woman should be in charge of the thermostat the happier you will be. Promise.

 

  I will accept it as soon as my wife accepts that setting the temperature to 84 does not heat the house any faster than setting it to 78. 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

Just now, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Pin number dude 

 

  I know what you meant. I just didn't know they made thermostat's with pins.

 

  It's kind of funny because it feels like the only real purpose of a pin would be to stop the wife from messing with it. IDK, broken furnace in winter or angry wife. I have to decide which is worse. 

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13 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I know what you meant. I just didn't know they made thermostat's with pins.

 

  It's kind of funny because it feels like the only real purpose of a pin would be to stop the wife from messing with it. IDK, broken furnace in winter or angry wife. I have to decide which is worse. 

 

[laylalex 7,284]

6 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I will accept it as soon as my wife accepts that setting the temperature to 84 does not heat the house any faster than setting it to 78. 

True!  I can't imagine setting the indoor temp to 78. It makes me feel queasy just thinking about it. 84 must be like simulated early menopause!!!! 

 

The place I live now is a studio, only about 500 square feet, but it is a detached A frame "tiny house" in another person's backyard. Because it's an A frame, the air tends to rise to the top and hang there during the day. There is a sleeping platform on a mezzanine level, and it's really nice, but I make my guests sleep there.  (I do provide them with a fan, I'm not a monster.) I have a portable AC unit which just about cools things down enough to make it manageable on those very few warm nights we've had. But the new place will ideally have central AC if I can find a unit that has it.

 

I can't believe I thought it was a brilliant idea to have him move in here before we look for a new place -- 500 sq ft is not a lot of space! It seemed fine at the weekends, but he was never bringing over more than a little overnight bag. And even though we've put a bunch of stuff in storage, I suddenly have all these clothes and shoes and magazines that have already migrated over here, and the gigantor TV is coming this weekend along with the Xbox and games plus more clothing... the sleeping platform has been turned into his personal dressing room. Somehow he accumulated all this stuff in just two years, how he did is beyond me. It's like, how many blue, and white, and blue and white striped buttondown shirts does one man need?

 

I have laid down the law and said the next place has to be a 2 bed, one can be a bedroom and the other the dressing room for His Royal Highness.  

[Steeleballz 7,550]

10 minutes ago, laylalex said:

True!  I can't imagine setting the indoor temp to 78. It makes me feel queasy just thinking about it. 84 must be like simulated early menopause!!!! 

 

The place I live now is a studio, only about 500 square feet, but it is a detached A frame "tiny house" in another person's backyard. Because it's an A frame, the air tends to rise to the top and hang there during the day. There is a sleeping platform on a mezzanine level, and it's really nice, but I make my guests sleep there.  (I do provide them with a fan, I'm not a monster.) I have a portable AC unit which just about cools things down enough to make it manageable on those very few warm nights we've had. But the new place will ideally have central AC if I can find a unit that has it.

 

I can't believe I thought it was a brilliant idea to have him move in here before we look for a new place -- 500 sq ft is not a lot of space! It seemed fine at the weekends, but he was never bringing over more than a little overnight bag. And even though we've put a bunch of stuff in storage, I suddenly have all these clothes and shoes and magazines that have already migrated over here, and the gigantor TV is coming this weekend along with the Xbox and games plus more clothing... the sleeping platform has been turned into his personal dressing room. Somehow he accumulated all this stuff in just two years, how he did is beyond me. It's like, how many blue, and white, and blue and white striped buttondown shirts does one man need?

 

I have laid down the law and said the next place has to be a 2 bed, one can be a bedroom and the other the dressing room for His Royal Highness.  

 

   I don't even think I could live by myself in 500 sq ft. 

[luckytxn 2,264]

24 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   I don't even think I could live by myself in 500 sq ft. 

For reals. I buy houses and remodel sometimes and my house I live in now I ripped the walls out and put in new walls  to give my bedroom 260 Sq. ft. by itself. I am thinking about building add on to my house to give myself a huge modern kitchen and adding a bathroom and a mans cave. 500 sq. ft. would give me claustrophobia big time. Where does one even put their tools?

[laylalex 7,284]

4 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   I don't even think I could live by myself in 500 sq ft. 

It's really not bad at all, and it made me think about what things I actually *need* as opposed to what's nice or merely decorative. My old home in Pasadena was huge, five bedrooms, and I spent a lot of time filling it up with useless junk because I thought it would make me feel better about my life. Surprise, surprise, what I really needed more than lots of space and a pool and built-ins and an Aga in the kitchen was my husband around. When it's just you and a cat (and occasionally your sister, and sometimes your husband) rattling around in 4500 sq ft, it feels like the structure's going to eat you alive, or has already eaten you alive and you're buried inside it. When I first moved out, I moved to a 800 sq ft 1 bed, and that felt okay. I'd gotten rid of almost everything in the house, I just didn't want it around to remind me of my failures. Moving up here from the Valley, I had the chance to live in a very nice and very small place for very little money, which up here means something. But the next place is definitely going to be at least 1000 sq ft. I don't really need anything more than that. If we have kids, we will have to reassess whether we even want to stay up here.

 

I'd like to say you couldn't pay me to live in a big house again, but I'm not a fool. You could pay me!

19 minutes ago, luckytxn said:

For reals. I buy houses and remodel sometimes and my house I live in now I ripped the walls out and put in new walls  to give my bedroom 260 Sq. ft. by itself. I am thinking about building add on to my house to give myself a huge modern kitchen and adding a bathroom and a mans cave. 500 sq. ft. would give me claustrophobia big time. Where does one even put their tools?

Well, that's the difference I think between Houston and here in Berkeley/SF -- when you start getting bigger, it just gets prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. Could I afford to rent a bigger place? Sure! But I like having a little space all to myself, with a little garden and a firepit and a bit of grass to stretch out on right here in the city. It's not for everyone, but it's right for me.  Alex grew up in a huge and draughty old barn of a house (hate it) but in London lived in any number of poky little flats for the most part, so it doesn't bother him too much to live smaller.

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1 hour ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   I don't even think I could live by myself in 500 sq ft. 

I think my bathroom is 500 sq ft.

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[luckytxn 2,264]

55 minutes ago, laylalex said:

It's really not bad at all, and it made me think about what things I actually *need* as opposed to what's nice or merely decorative. My old home in Pasadena was huge, five bedrooms, and I spent a lot of time filling it up with useless junk because I thought it would make me feel better about my life. Surprise, surprise, what I really needed more than lots of space and a pool and built-ins and an Aga in the kitchen was my husband around. When it's just you and a cat (and occasionally your sister, and sometimes your husband) rattling around in 4500 sq ft, it feels like the structure's going to eat you alive, or has already eaten you alive and you're buried inside it. When I first moved out, I moved to a 800 sq ft 1 bed, and that felt okay. I'd gotten rid of almost everything in the house, I just didn't want it around to remind me of my failures. Moving up here from the Valley, I had the chance to live in a very nice and very small place for very little money, which up here means something. But the next place is definitely going to be at least 1000 sq ft. I don't really need anything more than that. If we have kids, we will have to reassess whether we even want to stay up here.

 

I'd like to say you couldn't pay me to live in a big house again, but I'm not a fool. You could pay me!

Well, that's the difference I think between Houston and here in Berkeley/SF -- when you start getting bigger, it just gets prohibitively expensive for a lot of people. Could I afford to rent a bigger place? Sure! But I like having a little space all to myself, with a little garden and a firepit and a bit of grass to stretch out on right here in the city. It's not for everyone, but it's right for me.  Alex grew up in a huge and draughty old barn of a house (hate it) but in London lived in any number of poky little flats for the most part, so it doesn't bother him too much to live smaller.

Oh you rent. Well I don't rent but own and have always owned at least some acreage somewhere and when buying a property with a house to live in I go in a rip it part and remodel to fit my needs as I see fit. Granted I am getting too old to do too much but still do a lot of my own remodeling but do hire a contractor sometimes. 500 feet though I could never live in unless I buy a big storage unit somewhere I can get to easily.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, luckytxn said:

For reals. I buy houses and remodel sometimes and my house I live in now I ripped the walls out and put in new walls  to give my bedroom 260 Sq. ft. by itself. I am thinking about building add on to my house to give myself a huge modern kitchen and adding a bathroom and a mans cave. 500 sq. ft. would give me claustrophobia big time. Where does one even put their tools?

 

  I guess I could live in a 500 sq ft house, but I'd need a 1000 sq ft garage. 

[laylalex 7,284]

1 minute ago, luckytxn said:

Oh you rent. Well I don't rent but own and have always owned at least some acreage somewhere and when buying a property with a house to live in I go in a rip it part and remodel to fit my needs as I see fit. Granted I am getting too old to do too much but still do a lot of my own remodeling but do hire a contractor sometimes. 500 feet though I could never live in unless I buy a big storage unit somewhere I can get to easily.

I used to own, but since I'm bouncing around at the moment renting makes sense. Once we work out where we want to be -- Bay Area or elsewhere -- we'll buy again. I am tempted to move back down to where my family and most of my closest friends are in SoCal, but I kind of like it here. I suppose the universe will unfold itself in the way it wants.

[luckytxn 2,264]

18 minutes ago, Boris Farage said:

I think my bathroom is 500 sq ft.

Heh. I am about to build a new bathroom for my wife and she wants it all so we may be approaching that. Right now I am planning on ripping out the wall to the sitting room and making her bathroom and her new huge walk in closet and making a nice bedroom entertainment area with TV and such. It will make the bedroom a bit more than 500 ft. I am estimating close to 950 ft. for our main bedroom now. Lucky for me I can do most of the work myself but will need to hire a helper probably. Oh well we need to help the economy.