oh, maybe tomorrow's project can be putting on the heated mattress pad.

and maybe if I get really motivated I can crawl into the attic and see what things are like up there. I want to have an idea of what some electrical re-running up there will be like, also adding insulation and also also flooring out some of the space for somewhere to hide storage.

We have this heating discussion periodically, and reading everyone's responses always makes me cold.

The "How do you do it?" question rarely gets old for us. Or humans. It's just fascinating.

It's true!

I really got used to unregulated NYC apartment heat, where apartments are always warm, so I bundle up now, but I don't like it.

I'm not sure what temperature my apartment is at. I have electric heaters in some of the rooms. I have turned on the one in my bedroom, the one in the bathroom, the one in the kitchen and one of two in the living room.

My cat has taken to hanging out in front of the one in the kitchen so I know where it's the warmest.

I really got used to unregulated NYC apartment heat, where apartments are always warm

I didn't realize how warm my old apartment truly was until I moved here and felt was 68 was like. My old apartment must have been in the mid-70s or better. And, in retrospect, I wore short and t-shirts and no socks all winter long.

I think my gas bills in the winter are still less than they were in the apartment with forced air (via gas) but I'm not positive of that. Electric in the summer, even when I ran 3 window usits full blast, is cheaper. Which given this place is 2 (well, 3 if you count the basement, and you can only count that for heat since the pipes run across the ceiling) times bigger....

I really ought to insulate the lines in the basement (but I like it being warmish when I go down there for laundry or whatever!) and see about getting more insulation blown into the attic.

OMG y'all! I had Loki out on the back deck. He saw Pumpkin in the window and went into full battle-cry-whacko mode. So much noise and completely puffed up. I brought him inside and they sniffed noses like usual. Somehow, when she's Cat in the Window she's a stranger cat??

Weirdo. Now he's checking out the window where she was. So bizarre.

Now he's checking out the window where she was.

"Dude! There was someone else sitting right there when I was outside! Didn't you see them?"

OMG! CAT IN THE WINDOW!!!!!

Cat brain cross post.

Every so often, they prove it really is walnut sized.

Curiosity got the best of me: gas+ electric is a little higher in the winter than I paid in the apartment in 2007. But not 2x higher. Maybe 10-15% more. Quite reasonable. I think my furnace is from the late 80s/early 90s(?), so when it comes time to replace it, I'm sure I'll get even better efficiency.