"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote

Many people think keeping a house in the mid 60's is some sort of torture,
but that is really considered warm compared to typical homes before cheap
central heat. Can you imagine what it was like in some of the big stone
castles? Last March we stayed in a stone house built in the 1100's.
(Yes, 1100's, in Italy) The owner kept the heat at 57, but I had to boost
it to 62. The walls were about 2 feet thick so it took some time for it
to warm up.

You know what gets meare the people that have weekend homes around here and
the can't understand why
they go through so much oil during the winter.

"I keep the thermostat all the way down at 60 degrees!"

They can't understand that when it's in the lower 20s at night, it's going
to burn some oil to keep it at 60.