Bought my first house in 1966. Now in my third. Never had air conditioning in any home I have owned.
Have ceiling fans everywhere. Temps for past 2 days over 100 outside & is predicted for next 5 days. I deal with it. My neighbors who have AC are paying about 4 ++ times my electric bill.
Is this normal for your area? Or an outlier?
“Never had air conditioning”
Wow! You must be on the Pope’s Christmas card list, if that isn’t too much of an indulgence.
Actually, I haven’t had ac in 30 years, though sometimes I wish I had it.
Good for you. I have Central AC and I run it 10 months of the year and if that jackass pope doesn't like it he can kiss my butt.
“Bought my first house in 1966. Now in my third. Never had air conditioning in any home I have owned.
Have ceiling fans everywhere. Temps for past 2 days over 100 outside & is predicted for next 5 days. I deal with it. My neighbors who have AC are paying about 4 ++ times my electric bill.”
Your choice...and their choice.
Next...
Ceiling fans bug my sinuses and give ma a sore throat. I turned on the furnace fan early this morning, and it helped a lot, and wasn’t blowing directly on me. If I’m too hot sleeping, I get non-stop nightmares, and wake up very disturbed many times during the night. I’ll take AC! I was thinking of getting a portable one that I could use in my bedroom at night, and in my home office during the day.
Yes, but they’re comfortable. I’ve lived without AC, I’ve lived with AC. It’s supposed to be 105 humid degrees today, I’m sticking with AC.
***Live in rural Northern Nevada with my 6 horses and 3 dogs.**
No wonder, a low humidity area! You should try living in the Indian territory in Oklahoma where the temp last week was 95 degrees and the humidity extremely high. It felt like 110 in Grove Oklahoma! Sweat does not evaporate off the skin, it runs down making you feel worse.
I lived in NW New Mexico with a humidity of 12% and did not need air conditioning.
I left NM when the temp was 98 degrees and no AC. Got to central Arkansas a few days later, went into a store with the outside temp 98 degrees. When I left the store I almost collapsed as the humidity was so high,78%, It felt like 135 degrees outside.
Living in the high desert of Nevada, I can understand you. I only used fans when I lived at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. However out here in humid and high alergen Washington DC, I consider AC as a necessity if I’m going to have clear sinuses and few headaches. And, as I’ve grown older, my reaction to the pollen out here has increased.
You must not have allergies. We installed duct work and central air after moving to a house without it. In our previous air conditioned home our son had some symptoms and about two asthma attacks each week. We moved here and his symptoms were aggravated and he began having three or more asthma attacks a day. His doc prescribed the a/c for tax purposes, we installed it and immediately things were under control again. Those first few years without it were misery.
Drier, filtered air isn’t just for comfort. Trips to the ER because asthma meds aren’t cutting it is a dangerous way for a child to live.
You can’t get away without AC in most Southern states. Temps get up over 100, sometimes as high as 110 and that gets mighty uncomfortable.
WOW WE live on Texas Gulf Coast where it has been in the hundreds and very very very humid! I have ceiling fans in most of the rooms, plus floor fans, and table top fans. I am happy to pay my electric bill in the summer so long as I can! We don’t really have heating bills here. About 20 a month, for hot water tank, etc.
The important thing there is choice. You chose, and so did your neighbors. Nobody took away either of your choices. Your neighbor chooses to use some of his money to pay for the luxury/necessity. You save money by foregoing it.
That is how things ought to be, absent pressing circumstances that make one or the other choice deathly foolish.
Do you have a furnace? Do you use it? If you suffer through heat than you can suffer through cold too, right?
My body has poor heat management. I get hot easily, and don’t wear much during the winter because it makes me really fatigued.
Another dumb@$$ posts nonsense.
Try living in Southern Alabama without it.