House temperature

A fifth and final way in which B and I have "gone green" over the past few years is by setting our house temperature either slightly colder over the winter or slightly warmer over the summer.

This is not entirely unbearable over the summer, as you can see from the picture. Our house has a lot of trees around it which keep it cooler all day long. But the opposite happens over the winter.

Something we quickly realized our first winter in Augusta was that houses in the South don't heat as well as they do in the North. So even though we may set the heat higher, the house is still going to feel cold.

The Morris's home temperature settings:
* Winter: 55F during the day, 65F afternoon and evening.
* Summer: 82F during the day, 77F afternoon and evening.

"Turn the thermostat down (in the winter) and wear more warm clothing. For every degree that you lower the thermostat, you save 3 percent on energy costs." - Jonni McCoy in Miserly MOMS