@Cruiser LOL. If I could sleep comfortably I would, but at 67 I am freezing and can’t sleep, and can’t move period. We used to keep our heat on 68 and I regret every day I had it set that cold. It was a “fight” for my husband and me, because I did a lot of complaining about being cold and it annoyed the shit out of him. I think it influenced him seeking employment again in FL. I wasn’t really complaining about the cold outside, although I like the 80 degree weather better, I was complaining about being cold inside. In my home. In the place that I should feel comfortable. I have told him I will never ever again be cold at home. Now I put the heat on 73, I wish I had done that the 10 years I lived as a married person in colder weather. Once in a while I would move to the guest room, close the doors, and heat it up with a space heater so I could fall asleep. It probably got up to 80 in there.
To @Dutchess_III‘s point, I was “cheap” about it. Heat is expensive. My mom and dad are the reverse of my generalization about women being cold, my mom is the one who is always hot, she was born hot. She is hot and then she always dresses in layers. My dad is overweight so layers are uncomfortable for him, and he is always cold and uncomfortable. They have the money to raise the heat, but my mom is stubborn. She really pisses me off about it, because I feel for the discomfort my dad is always in, when it is completely unnecessary.
My last house I boarded off half the house with blue Tyvek styrofoam boards. Yup, come in my house and the stairs were blocked with the stuff. I had thick plastic hanging in the hall to my bedroom. My big beautiful French country home in the woods with hardwood floors, stone fireplace, and all other sorts of pretty upgrades had plastic hanging like a warehouse. I hated the waste of heating the huge house. This new house I am putting a door in the hall to separate the house into two wings so I can just heat where I am.
I never want to fight with my husband again about the temperature. Thank goodness we are comfortable within a few degrees of each other and it is easy to put on long sleeves or change to a tank top to accomodate the other person.