For turning the heating on

Suffolk.

If you turn it on several times most days, then why is turning it on now notable?

You work to pay bills so you can be warm.who has told you otherwise? Put the heating on

Where do you live?

My place has high humidity so always feels cold.

We don't have ours on overnight but do put it on when we get up. Have it about 20 and it does it's own thing if it drops below it turns itself on. If we start to get warm we switch it off.
Dh is getting on my nerves with it though. He feels cold more than me and can make him feel quite ill, but I am happy in just a nightie or sundress so if he needs it on i put it on. But he was literally shivering and wouldn't put it on because the thermostat said 20. Fml if you're that cold turn the thing up. I did turn it up and just told him there isn't a legal limit you can't go beyond.
We have gas bottles and they cost £75 a time. One will usually last a month and we had about 4 months during the year when we didn't need to buy one so saved that money for now.

Agree with those that have central heating and just have the thermostat set to 18 or whatever and let it do it's thing whenever necessary - whether that's June or January!

I've got storage heaters now so have to plan whether I'll be cold tomorrow - which is a bit of an arse ache (and expensive) but I've still had them turned on for weeks and I'm in bloody Cornwall! 😂

It snowed in Inverness overnight, and reached -6 in the Cairngorms. The NE wind is like knives.
At times like this I wish I lived on the south coast 😂

Oh and the temperature forecast for the next days in Glasgow is 8,6,5,5,4,4,4.

This idea that you get a gold star for not using heating is just so weird. There is no kudos in being cold.

Wearing mine right now!😀

I think if you are contemplating wearing gloves or a hat indoors then it's Def time to put the heating on.
I'm in the SE so I think I still have a few days before I have to worry about it.

Exactly! How embarrassing op. You are a grown big woman aren’t you?

Primark oodie. Amazing.

Your life, your property, your bills. (I can't imagine NOT needing heating in mid-November). I understand that some people struggle with the cost of it, but for everyone else this thing of acting like there's some sort of virtue in suffering is bonkers. Like being proud of not eating enough or not going to the doctor when you're ill.

Had mine on for months. Live in Scotland!

I am amazed how many struggle to pay for the heating I guess on one hand heating is expensive specially in winter but don’t most people not pay the same all year round

so I pay £150 a month which means I can have my heating on whenever I want in winter

Obviously my summer bills are maybe 30 £40 was just electricity but that’s when the amount built up so I’m in credit for £500 by September October time that means if I have three cold very cold months I can use my heating as much as I want

I just assumed everyone would do that to pay the whole year round the same amount but one of my friends literally pays her bill

so in April May June July aug her bills are nothing but then they start to creep up and come September October November December January it’s cold and sometimes her heating bills can be 300 up to 400 a month and moans about it every winter

But she’s quite happy to have four or five months or very low payment and I always say to her, why don’t you budget and use the same monthly payment all year round so you do build up credit and she always says no

i get some are literally living on the bare bones of their arses so can’t pay same monthly but sure most can

My house is Tudor so you’d expect it to be cold but it’s actually really warm -
it just retains heat very well for some inexplicable reason. I’m in Suffolk and it’s been really mild so we haven’t needed to turn the heating on at all (yet!)

My home is warm, it’s not particularly old (less than 15 years I’d say) I’ll probably only put the heating on a handful of times over the winter. I hate that suffocating heating feeling.

There’s a cold front coming through from this evening apparently so we’ll all be having the heating on by tomorrow. I’ve had mine on boost for an hour or two/in the morning for several weeks now. Will soon be having to do it on a more regular schedule I’m sure. Snow next week so they say. ⛄️

We've had the fire lit almost constantly since the beginning of October! Luckily it's position means it does tend to heat the whole house so we are lovely and toasty.
I used to live in a freezing house and that was the main reason we moved, being cold all winter is sodding miserable and I try to avoid it at all costs!

It's November..... of course you turn the heating on! What's the point of having it installed if you don't use it when you feel cold?

Don't think it matters to anyone if you use the heating or not tbh 🤷 you pay for it you decide it's bizzare why a thread needs to be started over heating lol

If you're cold OP, put it on.

I do think in general that people have a psychological thing going on where they automatically want the heating on because its November, or raining, or dark etc. despite much of the country being actually closer to May (16 degrees yesterday!) at the moment in terms of temperature, especially at night. But OP, you said you're in Scotland with lower temperatures. Likewise, you have those martyrs who would rather shiver than get the thermostat above 15 degrees.

This is true. Excluding poverty why are we so martyrish about it?

Other countries aren’t like this. Their homes are warm and toasty (and not damp ridden). I don’t want to sit in a coat and gloves in my own home.

I put a jumper on. If I’m still cold then I the heating on…that could be August for all I care. Hate all this ‘must hold out until November business’.

I understand that.
But i have a fan going and windows open welcome to early menopause lol.