Feeling like Goldilocks

Fall is a wonderful season for the cooling off in the hot Georgia temperatures but it also leaves me feeling a bit like Goldilocks a lot of the time... it's too warm and then it's too cool and then it's just right and then it's too warm again and round and round we go, never quite right for long.

We went out and bought a new thermostat for our house last week because with the up and down temperatures, we were finding we were constantly having to switch the system from heat to cool to heat to cool to...

Our new thermostat was advertised as being able to automatically adjust back and forth between heating and cooling to keep the house at a constant temperature range. However, even though that was its main selling point over the other model we already had in the Honeywell line, when you install it with the factory defaults it comes with, it doesn't have the auto setting. It appears to operate exactly the same as our half the price model we already had...

Mike found this to be really quite odd. He installed it. Tried to find the auto setting and couldn't. We could set it to heat or cool but no auto setting. We double checked all of the packaging and model number to make sure that we had in fact bought the model we thought we were and not a duplicate of our existing one. Nope, everything said that we had bought the model we wanted and that it should do auto switching. Confused...

Mike then pulled out and read the manual to find out that "depending on how it was installed" it would have the auto switching enabled or not... ummm... so he found the weird, convoluted method in which he had to press a bunch of advanced buttons to turn on the auto switching feature. It was there but buried in the settings and you needed the manual to do it as it wasn't some simple, push this button & it was turned on. It was a program in this number for this particular spot to get it to turn on. How exactly this was a "depending on how it was installed" topic, we still aren't sure. Typically, how you install a thermostat is pretty darn straight forward. Take off the old one, connect the proper wires and remount. No weird messing around in the advanced jumper settings.

Which left us thinking...

Dear Honeywell, don't you think that if someone is paying the much higher price to buy a thermostat with the auto switching capability, they MIGHT want to have the auto ability enabled by DEFAULT??

So with that behind us, we have a house that keeps a constant temperature range. Yay!

Now, enter in our new memory foam bed topper... and I am feeling like Goldilocks again! too warm! throw off the covers, too cool! rinse, repeat, toss, turn... it is amazing how just a few inches of memory foam on top of a bed can change how it retains heat and whether or not you can have a good night's sleep.  I cannot sleep if I am too warm. My toes are frequently sticking out from under the covers to cool off which with the kittens around is just asking for toe attacks throughout the night...

So now to figure out the proper ratio of flannel sheets and comforter with the memory foam topper to the proper house temperature range for sleeping...

Can you help a girl out? What temperature do you keep your house at?