Let me know if this isn't the best place to post this! It seems to have posts about similar topics and the most subscribers to answer my question.
I live in Georgia, and it is hot. I used to live in Florida. In Florida, dad set the air conditioning rules, and it was about 78 cool all the time, and I was fine. 78 cool runs every once in a while and keeps the house comfortable, and I've run my air conditioning in a similar way ever since.
Roommate is from New York, now in Georgia, and is coming from living alone for a while. She runs it at 70 cool. 70 COOL. I honest to goodness run my heater at night so I don't wake up frozen.
Since I have my heater, I let the roommate have full control over the air conditioning. I've talked to her about it and got the standard "I wake up DYING in the middle of the night" so whatever, I'm the less confrontational of the two.
But she does make more money than me. How does one split the electricity bill when there's disagreement over how to run the air conditioning? I understand it's gonna be a little higher in the summer, because it's the summer, but right now the roommate is making it even worse because she doesn't want to use lighter bedspread, apparently.
Ideas: Take the average sum of all my utilities for the past 7 months and talk about not paying any money from my pocket over that? (Since that should be the effect of her having air conditioning control) Make a straight up threshold I don't pay over, like 50 bucks. Which is a pretty high threshold.
If she wants to be in control of the air conditioning, I support her, but I also don't want to pay for her.... stubbornness and unwillingness to compromise. Anyone have any ideas? Am I being stubborn and unwilling to compromise here and don't realize it?
Edit: Thank you all for your input! I appreciate all the different viewpoints, especially the ones about just closing my own damn vent, something I never would have thought of, and how little sense it made for me to complain about paying more for electricity while running my heater. Glad I did a little rant here instead of confronting my roommate about it, it looks like my roommate and I are just on opposite spectrums of comfortable temperatures and we're both stubborn. Also, a house at 78 feels cool as hell when there's airflow and the heat index is 100 outside, y'all. Just sayin. Anyways, I appreciate you, internet forum
June 12, 2018 at 06:26AM
