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Air Conditioning...Greatest Thing Ever, Doom of the Planet, or Somewhere In Between?
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That is funny, Kevin! So many different journeys we all make...Re: heating & cooling, one of my absolute BEST memories of childhood is at my Mamaw's house in very rural north MS (no AC until the adult kids bought her a window unit in like 2000 and then it was only for the front room where nobody ever went anyway), sleeping in her bed w/this LOUD-ass metal box fan on high. We'd only use sheets in the summer time, and I would crawl under the sheet and put my head down at the foot of the bed where the fan was. I LOVED the whumphing, whirring, clanging sound of that fan in my ear under the cold sheets! (And I still use a sound machine for sleeping.)
Me too--I like fans, very soothing and they drown out the other, annoying sounds. I love feeling air moving, not just hanging all still.
You guys are the second to mention Pema Chodron to me in the last 24 hours. I'll check her out. Thanks.No air conditioning now...around fifty-five...awesome...
no A/C needed today in Indiana. 64 outside at 7:30pm. great night for a softball game. going to get skinned up and dirty. later ya'll
Only needed air conditioning one night so far, and no need in the forecast. Feels weird. But good.
Now, I am a creature of comfort, but yes, it's so damaging. My issue is that they started building houses designed so that you almost have to have it. The house I live in is about 20 years old and the windows are placed in such a way that you just can't get any decent cross breeze going.
90 degrees today, 100 tomorrow, 105 the next day.We set the AC to 80 and keep the ceiling fans on to circulate the air. I'm heading to the (no AC) workshop this morning to see how many things I can crank out before the heat gets to be too much.
Maybe not the "greatest thing ever," but high on the list.
Yikes 64 - 66 is much too cool without a sweater!No A/C in most of Seattle, except the latest houses but they're all those ugly tall skinnies or McMansions (not really mansions but you get the picture, all house, no garden, room enough for a dozen) Every year when the heat spell comes we swear NEXT YEAR but never do. It's relatively short lived in the grand scheme of things - 3 weeks?
I always have to take a sweater if the place has AC, brr it's too cool.
But if you live in heat zones AC is a must!
Greatest thing ever!
Becoming over heated actually makes me physically sick (rapid and irregular heart beat), so I love, Love, LOVE my A/C!
Becoming over heated actually makes me physically sick (rapid and irregular heart beat), so I love, Love, LOVE my A/C!
I find it depends on the climate. I am pretty neutral on a/c, as we only really need it for maybe a month to a month and a half at best. But, the in-laws live in Alabama, and I think I would die with out the a/c in the summer time. The heat and humidity down South makes me ill(trouble breathing, my heart races, nausa) but it's probably because I'm not accustomed to it.
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interesting. when i am somewhere there is A/C i have to have it and think it is the greatest thing ever. when i am places that do not have A/C i just go with the flow and don't really seem to mind. if it is not an option it doesn't seem so vital
Air conditioning at the office is a must otherwise it gets too uncomfortable to work. I get very cranky if I'm stifling at work.We've got a small window air conditioner at home but have only turned it on a couple of times this year.
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Janice wrote: "Air conditioning at the office is a must otherwise it gets too uncomfortable to work. I get very cranky if I'm stifling at work.We've got a small window air conditioner at home but have only tur..."
Well, yeah. You live in the arctic circle, so who needs AC?
without air conditioning, Las Vegas would dry up and fly away. Summer heat starts mid April when it starts going over 85 everyday and really gets going in June when it goes over 105 and frequently over 110 every day until late Sept. I remember going outside one evening about 11:30 pm to go grocery shopping and remarking it was a nice evening: it was 98. Here in NH last summer was long, hot and steamy. Most days were well over 85 with 50-60 sometimes 70% humidity. My brother in law's illness results in his not being able to regulate body heat so air conditioning was a must. So far, not so much this summer. Running only a few hours 3 out of every 7 days. But summer just started.
I love air conditioning--might have something to do with living in Florida. And yeah, it's possible to live without it--I did for six years--but life is so much nicer with it.
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I'm with Amelia (nice avatar, btw)! I've never tolerated heat very well, but the MS has made sure that I get very very sick if I'm overheated. In my first house, my bedroom was one-half of a converted attic, and without A/C, I spent summer nights crying myself to sleep and counting the days until fall. The next year, I got a window unit and all was well again.
In this house, I have whole house A/C, which is just incredible. :D
Leslie wrote: "Hi Anthony, Mystery Man from India. How are you?"Heh. Good to see you, Leslie.
I love heat and humidity- the hotter the better. There’s nothing better to me than going out at night and feeling like I’m stepping into a warm bath. Probably because I hate the cold.I do have A/C, but I rarely use it. My house gets a great cross breeze and I have large shade trees all around it; I find with fans it cools off nicely.
those with autoimmune disorders and severe but chronic illnesses frequently have trouble handling heat and humidity as they have trouble maintaining a decent core temperature. for them ac is a necessity not a luxury. I live on a lower level, half the room is in the basement so I am generally 20 degrees cooler than the upstairs rooms so a fan is usually all I need.
i fall in the severe, cronic illnesses category, but i've always been hot natured. as a daycare provider i often read parenting magazines. an article i read some years ago stated the best temp to keep your home is between 68 and 72 degrees, 68 being the most ideal. this discourages the breeding of germs. makes perfect sense to me. i try to keep my home at a constant 70 degrees. some people find that a tad chilly. so, put a damn sweater on.
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I turn the A/C on 68 to sleep, that is as cold as Honey can stand it (skinny boy). Personally, I would be happiest with 65. I can handle A/C 70 during the day, but if I don't keep an eye on him, Honey will have sneaked it up to 74 and I suddenly notice that I am actually uncomfortable...
LG, one winter when I was a kid our furnace broke. My folks had recently divorced and my mom was just then (for the first time since my sister was born) out in the work place full time. She didn't have the money to fix it, so we didn't have heat. In the evening she would build a fire in the living room fireplace. In the morning we would get dressed in front of the open oven.
LG, one winter when I was a kid our furnace broke. My folks had recently divorced and my mom was just then (for the first time since my sister was born) out in the work place full time. She didn't have the money to fix it, so we didn't have heat. In the evening she would build a fire in the living room fireplace. In the morning we would get dressed in front of the open oven.
AC is an absolute necessity here in Orlando this week.
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How can you air condition a tent?
If honey could satisfactorily solve the comfortable sleeping issue, he might get me tent camping after all!
If honey could satisfactorily solve the comfortable sleeping issue, he might get me tent camping after all!
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We lived without air down for a while and it was pretty awful. I used to take cold showers and not dry off and lay naked in bed with three fans on me. I also used to sit with my feet in a basin of ice water.
We also didn't have heat and sometimes in the winter I could see my breath inside the house--BRRRR!!
I used to get in bed and make a tent with the covers and have a blower dryer in there and fill it up with hot air--that felt good! I'm also lucky, because I love getting in a cold bed--I know, I'm crazy--so I would get in my husband's side of the bed and when it got warm I would call him and then I would get over on my side and warm it up, then he would get in bed and we'd keep the whole thing warm.
Funny to remember now, would never want to do it again--it was 8 feet wide!