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07-20-2010, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | So I have a house guest who changes the thermostat...
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Holy Hell. My mother is in town for the week and every day when my wife comes home my dear mom has turned on every light in the house, cut every fan off and set the thermostat for 79 degrees. We normally keep the house at 73-74. It's un-freaking-bearable and after 90+ degree temps outside and high ceilings, it takes most of the evening to cool the house back down. To make matters worse, she likes to leave half full glasses of water around the house and just gets another when she's thirsty. My house looks like a tropic version of Signs by the time I get home (swing away, Merrill).
My wife politely brought up the heat as she sat visibly sweating and my mom blamed it on my wifes hormones. No advice necessary, I've been on this road for 35 years.
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07-20-2010, 07:32 PM
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07-20-2010, 07:37 PM
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07-20-2010, 07:39 PM
|  | curiously looking back at what once was beautiful | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon | | | If it's any consolation, my mother has developed entirely different, yet equally effective, methods of absolutely driving me out of my freaking skull.
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07-20-2010, 07:55 PM
|  | LOLchair | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Lake Worth, FL | | Set it 60 degrees when she's sleeping so the next day she would have a severe cold she can't even get up of the bed..  |
07-20-2010, 08:06 PM
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07-20-2010, 08:21 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | Sounds like my mother. She'll set the thermostat to 78, put on sweats, and then complain about it being too cold in the middle of summer. |
07-20-2010, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban How long before you stab her in the eyes w/an ice pick she leaves? | I'm self medicating with alcohol, so I'll probably be able to hold out longer than you might think. She asks at least once everytime she visits "do you drink this much all the time?". Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefenator If it's any consolation, my mother has developed entirely different, yet equally effective, methods of absolutely driving me out of my freaking skull. | Making my house hot is just her way of making me physically miserable to match what she's already doing to me mentally. Quote:
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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya Sounds like my mother. She'll set the thermostat to 78, put on sweats, and then complain about it being too cold in the middle of summer. | Yup. It's nuts. My wife sent me a text yesterday saying "all the fans are off and every device that can make heat is on". My response: "Huh. That's what I imagine Hell to be like, complete with my mother on 'repeat'".
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07-20-2010, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban How long before you stab her in the eyes w/an ice pick she leaves? | Even though you pulled a strike-through, you still owe me for use of that phrase.
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07-20-2010, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Willmar, Minnesota | | | Time to man up. You don't want it that way and your wife doesn't.
Remember the phrase "my house, my rules?"
Set a chair outside for mother if she wants to be warmer.
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07-20-2010, 08:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | Slap a Snuggie on her,turn the thermostat down,and call it a day.
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07-20-2010, 09:11 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | 73-74 in your house normally? That would drive me insane. I keep ours around 68.
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07-20-2010, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by carl h. Time to man up. You don't want it that way and your wife doesn't.
Remember the phrase "my house, my rules?"
Set a chair outside for mother if she wants to be warmer. | Great on paper (or the internet, as it were), not so practical with your kid's grandparents. As much as I don't care to carry on another mind-numbingly boring conversation about medical problems or my sister's crazy cats with her, I want her to be a large part of my kid's lives the way my grandmother was. As such, telling her to it's "my house, my rules" isn't something I care to employ at this time, but thanks for the advice.
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07-20-2010, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 73-74 in your house normally? That would drive me insane. I keep ours around 68.
-Mike | It's a compromise. When my wife and I moved in together, I was used to an 80 degree house (thanks, Dad), she was used to around 68.
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07-20-2010, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues Slap a Snuggie on her,turn the thermostat down,and call it a day. | She's got 2 blankets on right now, but by noon tomorrow my house will be a sauna.
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07-20-2010, 09:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | Buy a locking cover for the thermostat. Have the only key. You win.
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07-20-2010, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by mike_v_s She's got 2 blankets on right now, but by noon tomorrow my house will be a sauna.
mike | Well at least you'd have her looking like a crazy cult member.
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07-20-2010, 09:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Tennessee | | | Our apartment is cold enough to hang meat in. If you touch the thermostat, you will be beat with a pillowcase full of bars of soap.
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07-20-2010, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist Even though you pulled a strike-through, you still owe me for use of that phrase. | Sure, man- whatcha drinkin tonight? 
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07-20-2010, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban Sure, man- whatcha drinkin tonight? | I think he mixed his idiot pills with his stupid juice.
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