using indoor heaters during the cold winter months

[Backyardswimmer]

How warm do you guys keep your house warm during the cold winter months?Like for an example do you leave the thermomerter heater 75F/18C?& If so is it warm enough like to be nude indoors and not have yor feet cold?I'm just wanting to know just to get in idea how warm the house should be in order to enjoy the comfort of being in the nude, in our house.

[Fuzzy Nuts]

With the high cost of energy in Canada I have given up trying to keep house warm enough in winter so that I can remain naked. For comfort clothed-sake we keep the house at about 71 but this is not warm enough for me to be comfortable naked. I think you would need house around 74 or 75 but I dont want to end in poorhouse.

One other solution would be to put some fat on but I worked to hard to take it off.

Therefore I just dream of summer coming!

And by the way 18 Celsius is down in low 60's F.

[luvnaturism]

I can be comfortable nude for several hours at a time at 71°. After a hot shower or session in the hot tub 70° is fine. However we keep our house at 68° to save on the gas bill, so not much nude time in winter.

[NakedGary]

18 Degrees Celsius = 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Online conversion:

http://www.mathconnect.com/temperature.htm

[nakedIOWAman]

We keep our house at 72. My wife is naked almost all the time, but I'm to skinny to stay warm at that temp. In my little office, I have a milkhouse heater so I can at least be naked while on the computer! In the winter I normally just freeball with flannel pants or sweats and a shirt. We do sleep nude all year though, and usually eat breakfast naked.

[Boreas]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Fuzzy Nuts:
With the high cost of energy in Canada I have given up trying to keep house warm enough in winter so that I can remain naked. For comfort clothed-sake we keep the house at about 71 but this is not warm enough for me to be comfortable naked. I think you would need house around 74 or 75 but I dont want to end in poorhouse.

One other solution would be to put some fat on but I worked to hard to take it off.

Therefore I just dream of summer coming!

And by the way 18 Celsius is down in low 60's F. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I am the same.....and I live further north and so the heating system has to work harder up here. I also do not like house at 75 or so at night. It is too hot to sleep, so if you have it that warm for lying around in the evening it will be too warm to sleep.

Sheesh, there is no pleasing some people eh! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/tongue.gif

I wear loose comfy sweats around the house in the winter.

[RalphVa]

We kept our house at 55 F in the winter for the years we lived in NJ, but it was often warmer than this due to a wood stove keeping the basement at near 80 F, where our family room was. Our oil heat bill for hot water plus house heat FINALLY went just above $400/yr for about the last 4 years there. Here in Va, after living 10 years in hot Singapore and Baton Rouge, we crank the thermostat up to 60 F and wear warm clothes inside the house. Outside, I'm often naked in the afternoons when the temperature gets above about 40-45 F with the sun out. Still bowling in shorts at the bowling alley because they seem to keep it up near about 70 F.

I'm sitting at the pooter with a little electric heater running beside my chair. When I retire to the TV room, I'll cover with a blanket. Our electric bill last month was $135 in this all electric house (heat pump for heat).

[tinner666]

Indoor temp here 71-72. Warm enough to be nude. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif

[barelybob]

Right now it is 71.8 and quite comfy.

[shãybare]

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I like to keep it between 75 and 80 when I'm up but sleep with around 65. I don't like a lot of covers so 65 is just right.

[naturalmanwa]

I like it around 78 during the day but around 72 at nite. Since my wife isn't a nudist, the temp. gets turned down to 74 sometimes during the day. I tell her I look forward to selling the house and heading south where I don't need to worry about the winter temps.

[usuallylurk]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Backyardswimmer:
How warm do you guys keep your house warm during the cold winter months?Like for an example do you leave the thermomerter heater 75F/18C?& If so is it warm enough like to be nude indoors and not have yor feet cold?I'm just wanting to know just to get in idea how warm the house should be in order to enjoy the comfort of being in the nude, in our house. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

We don't live a nude lifestyle -- but we keep ours at 70F during the day. At night - before we go to bed, we blast it up to 72F and let it go down overnight to around 64F. Then at 6 am it comes up to 72 and at 7 we "level it" to 70F.

We have a programmable thermostat. With gas-forced-hot-air -- many forget that the BLOWER uses a lot of energy -- so by allowing the temperature to decline during the night keeps the heat from coming on.

We also have a pellet stove to heat our basement family room, and have noticed that when we have that running the heat doesn't come up as often.

[Caipora]

First of all, it's summer.

My house doesn't have a heating system, nor an air conditioner. When it gets really cold, there's a fireplace. When it freezes, it's uncomfortable, but then it's uncomfortable wherever you are, too - the price of coffee goes up.

The Indians who lived in this area wore nothing at all, all year round. Given the altitude, it's cold at night; the usual way of dealing with that was a small fire near the hammocks, that was fed all night.

That may sound inconvenient, but keeping the fire fed was women's work. Perhaps they got used to it.

- Caipora

[andy_ma]

I keep it about 72 when I am not sleeping and that's comfortable to stay nude. Like others though, I like it cooler when I am sleeping. I sleep nude (under nice warm duvet), but turn the heat back to about 64. Thankfully, I have very warm, steam heat for the winter, otherwise, I don't know what I would do about being nude in the winter months.

[Enjoying life]

I do turn the heat up to about 74 when I'm able to relax in the nude. But turn it bach down to about 68 at night. I like it cold when I sleep, even thou I sleep nude.

[richinoregon]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Fuzzy Nuts:
With the high cost of energy in Canada I have given up trying to keep house warm enough in winter so that I can remain naked. For comfort clothed-sake we keep the house at about 71 but this is not warm enough for me to be comfortable naked. I think you would need house around 74 or 75 but I dont want to end in poorhouse.
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My house is between 71-74 (depending where you are in the house and I'm confortable. However I *have* to have footwear on. If the feet get cold I get cold. However what is really odd, when I'm sleeping I need 3-4 blankets, even though the temp in the room is above 70, otherwise I am near to shivering-go figure!

[OZJames]

Right now in OZ (central NSW) its 90F outside and gets down to 68F at night. Just GREAT

But here on our farm in the winter we have a wood burning fire in the loungeroom and a wood burning slow combustion stove in the kitchen to cook on and heat the water. I don't exactly know what the temp in winter is in the house , probably less than 65 unless sitting right next to the fire (which i do at night - nude TV watching). It would be colder in the unheated bedrooms.

There is no way I would get central heating to heat the whole house - CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT - GLOBAL WARMING. Ah perhaps nudists have a conspiricy going, by keeping all the central heaters cranked up during winter to increase the rate of global warming so that Earth will be warm enough not to wear clothes ALL THE YEAR ROUND http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smash.gif

Perhaps nudists should run publicity banning air conditioners in summer thus forcing people to be naked - it's COOLER that way but on the other hand agreeing to wear clothes in winter to help save the environment. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/idea3.gif

http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif <span class="ev_code_RED">JAMES</span> http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif

Keep my home at 70F all year around. Have wonderful all electric central heating and air conditioning ...... wonderful invention by our species. Plus, my home is well insulated. My electric costs are higher in winter but this year with our mild winter, the heat isn't on much at all.

Would not use wood stoves as firewood in this area is very expensive not to mention the work involved in maintaining woodstoves. This central heating and a/c rocks!

Alexis

[Nude in the North]

I keep my house at 70 to 75 , depending what activity I am doing. When I leave for work, I turn it down to 65. I'm not so sure it saves all that much, but it's the thought that counts.

I know people that freeze all winter rather than pay for a little heat. Yet they spend $100 a week on beer and cigaretts and think nothing of it.
Someone should do a study on what the energy cost of bringing a case of beer home is.
If anyone knows how I could get a government grant to fund the study,I would be willing to spend the next year working on it. Of course I'd have to have several cases of beer on hand to do it right.

Anyway, there are dozens of ways to conserve energy other than keeping your thermostat down and freezing in your own home.
Try unplugging some unused appliances, clocks,and vcr's. Everything that operates with a "stand by" mode adds up to a lot of energy over a years time. And how many clocks do you really need in your house anyway?

Oh yeah, and if you really want to save the planet. Trade your SUV in for something that get's 40 miles per gallon.

Steve

[nudeM]

We keep our house between 68 to 70. If it's too cool, I just put on a light robe and slippers, but nothing else. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smoking.gif

[John P]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Someone should do a study on what the energy cost of bringing a case of beer home is. If anyone knows how I could get a government grant to fund the study, I would be willing to spend the next year working on it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

If that's the purpose of the study, they'd insist that the same case ought to be used over and over again. You'd best write up your grant application in a way that requires you to empty all the containers and replace them with fresh ones, every time a case of beer needs to be experimented on. I'd like to believe that at least a few of my tax $$ are being well spent.

As for temps at home, I go bare in summer and save on air conditioning, but I wear clothes in winter and save on heat.

[NudstRalph]

I keep my house at 75 all day and night...Always nude at home. I think it would be more when you turn the temp down and then have to reheat the house again due to cold weather.

[Nudeinbama]

Though we have had a mild winter, so far anyway, I keep my house set on 72. This is warm enough to be nude most all day and night, and if I do get too cool, I put on a jacket type shirt and I'm fine. I don't have a problem with the lower half feeling or getting cold. Other than the feet, sometimes, I'll throw on a fair of moccosan slippers and all is well.
nudeinbama

[Fuzzy Nuts]

Actually I find the house a tad cool if it is 72 and I am naked - maybe I had best put some meat on the old bones. If we were to try to keep our house at 75 it would be great but being in Canada I would soon put my wife and I in poor house.

[Dick Springer]

I suggest using quartz heaters, which produce infra-red radiation. The have minimal effect on air temperature, but heat any solid surface they encounter. Therefore, they heat nude people more efficiently than they heat clothed people because the infra-red radiation is in direct contact with your skin.

[DenitaLC]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Fuzzy Nuts:
Actually I find the house a tad cool if it is 72 and I am naked - maybe I had best put some meat on the old bones. If we were to try to keep our house at 75 it would be great but being in Canada I would soon put my wife and I in poor house. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I sure hear you there Fuzzy! I'm freezing down here in WA and we do use portable electric heaters since we pay less for electricity than we do our gas. (We have a gas furnace and it sucks!)

I have to remain a clothed nudist this time of year and I hate it! Hurry up April and our next Palm Springs trip!

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[Orangexcalibare]

New York is usually cold this time of year, but utilities are a part of my monthly rent payment. I can have it as warm or as cool as I like for the same price! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif Lucky me!

[DenitaLC]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Orangexcalibare:
New York is usually cold this time of year, but utilities are a part of my monthly rent payment. I can have it as warm or as cool as I like for the same price! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif Lucky me! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Very lucky indeed! If I had the heat up high enough to keep me comfortably nude.....we'd have to share a "poor duplex" with Fuzzy and his wife. Another problem I face is a hubby that likes the temps. cooler than I do. burrrr

[Orangexcalibare]

LOL My girlfriend is often cool so we have it fairly warm. All our neighbors agree that we have the warmest apartment in the entire building, some know why, others do not.

Trust me, rent in NY is still way too high, but we do get the luxury of utilities included.