AIBU to not turn on heating

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I have trouble with spending money on myself and for looking after myself. It's cold and I'm working from home. If the kids were here I would turn on the heating but it seems wasteful for just me. However I have a few layers and a blanket and I'm cold. Do you turn on the heating just for you.

Yes, put the heating on! There's no point feeling uncomfortably cold. If it's cold in my house, I usually wrap up in a jumper, fluffy socks and blanket and put the heating on. I can't concencrate on anything if I'm cold, but I do feel the cold to an extreme level.

I don't have the heating on at night.

I agree also that not being able to afford heating is horrible. It sharpens the mind and also leads me to think of those homeless who have no shelter in this weather. How do they cope?

No. I'm happy with my hot water bottle, open fire and blankets. We don't seem to feel the cold as a family and hate being too warm. Both DH and I were raised in big, very old draughty houses so we're tough I find most houses I visit to be very overheated these days, especially new builds. Actually, it's not so much overheated- it's stuffy. New builds are hermetically sealed, which is great obviously but stuffy if you don't make a point of opening windows

No, I wouldn't put the heating on just for me.

I don’t - and haven’t today. I warm up with hot drinks and layers. But I don’t mind it a bit cold.

Why dont people just go and sit in the public library if they cant put the heating on? You can do your work on the computers there and be warm.I'd do that rather than be freezing cold.

Some people don't have access to public libraries. Transport problems or closure.

I work from home and the heating generally isn't on in the day. The room I work in shares a wall with the room with the boiler in and so keeps some residual heat. I have a fleece throw over my knees and a woolly cardigan.

I can't be bothered to turn radiators on and off and I'm fine with my throw on .

I am also generally in very good health - I rarely get colds at all

No not generally - just sit working with my coat/very thick wool cardigan on!

Why on earth wouldn't you? Why have heating and not use it if you're cold?

You wouldn't catch a man not turning the heating on!!

Sometimes I don't... I sit in bed and work. I expect that is very Scrooge like.

I'm going to add this anecdote regarding the difference in degrees.

When I came back to Gatwick after being 200 miles above the Arctic circle for only four days (where temperatures reached at best -15%), I was astounded how hot I felt at flying into a country where the temperature was a balmy 10%.

You wouldn't catch a man not turning the heating on!!

My husband doesn't either!

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Turning radiators off in the rooms while the ops children are at school isn’t going to cause a problem with damp. Leaving them permanently off is but this isn’t what op intends to do.

I can understand people not having the heating on due to low income but I cant understand people with well paid jobs being too tight to be warm.
I had a friend who wouldnt put the heating on at all and in the end people stopped visiting her it was too hard to sit there. You might as well have sat in the street. She was loaded but just tight.

I WFH and I have an oil-filled electric heater for my office. I spend the majority of the day in there. I will put the heating on around an hour before school pickup but otherwise I'm very happy in my little cocoon. It is toasty and cheaper than heating the entire house which isn't being used.

Not normally if I am on my own WFH. I have a separate oil filled radiator by my desk and put on extra layers. My kids haven't started back at school yet, so I have got it on today, even if they are running around half naked because they are too warm, I am cold at my desk.

I am not poor, just tight!!

Always- it's just as important than I am warm and comfortable.

As I have said before, I would personally rather eat toast for tea every evening than have a cold house.

If people genuinely can't afford it that is completely understandable, but having a cold home when you can afford to heat it I will never understand. Another one who was fucking miserable as a child due to a freezing house and no central heating.

It's about heating the whole house for one person, it seems wasteful, so DH or I don't put it on when alone. It's nice and warm for visitors and when the children are home. I can tolerate the cold well enough, just put layers on and have hot drinks. Hot water bottle if needed. I grew up in a house without central heating and just open fire downstairs and an aga (ancient, temperamental, much disliked).

It's a long way between sitting with mutiple layers and hot water bottles because you're freezing, and having an overheated house.

We never have heating on overnight. It's on at 20C from 7am to 9am and again from 4pm to 10pm. If I am at home during the day and it is cold, it is switched on again at 20C.

Totally agree that it's a separate matter if you can't afford to run it. But it's really sad that people saying they aren't worth heating the house for. Of course they are.

It’s 22 degrees in our house atm and my toddler’s just told me she’s cold. Speaks volumes about how warm I keep the house

But it's really sad that people saying they aren't worth heating the house for. Of course they are.

See my previous post, it's wasteful, in my opinion, to heat a whole house for one person. It's not self esteem issues, more environmental That's very wide of the mark indeed!