I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

[AK47bp]

Right? That sounds like a sign of severe hypothyroidism or some other serious medical condition.

That or a severe blanket phobia.


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[MMP]

Pms or menopause. Pick.


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[Danno]

She won't do it so you can have a new bike? 'Cause you could save enough for a REALLY nice bike.

Doesn't she love you and want you to be happy??

Need I remind you?

Wait. You're married to a ginger, right? Never mind. Just let her do whatever she wants.

[babybear]

Do you go down at night?





Or leave at 71 in perpetuity


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I see what you did there
I keep the bedroom cooler for comfy sleeping
But generally keep the living rm warmer. But as I typed that last night I was sitting on the couch in a down jacket


But you guys are slipping. 69 is obviously the best temperature

[riser4]

68. I'll owe her one.

[Danno]

I see what you did there
I keep the bedroom cooler for comfy sleeping
But generally keep the living rm warmer. But as I typed that last night I was sitting on the couch in a down jacket


But you guys are slipping. 69 is obviously the best temperature

nice

[plugboots]

Dang, BB, we are slipping.
Anyway, we've been using space heaters pointing at our desks when needed and not moving the thermostats, (much). Mrs. Plug uses hers to keep her coffee warm. winning

So...
WFH has been good or bad for the maggot's relationships overall?

[John_B]

Dang, BB, we are slipping.
So...
WFH has been good or bad for the maggot's relationships overall?

Mostly it's been pretty good with occasional instances of REALLY bad.

[Bobcat Sig]

So...
WFH has been good or bad for the maggot's relationships overall?

Mostly good

[PB]

Mostly it's been pretty good with occasional instances of REALLY bad.

This. A bit of a twist, though: I've been retired for 5 years, and she's the one WFH. More little nags, but generally they're given with a twinkle in her eye. I vote in favor.

[EWG]

Impact on relationship and good times with my wife and high school age daughter - excellent.

Impact on my business and ability to get work done - not great at all.

[snowaddict91]

I never would have had the opportunity to WFH before COVID, and I've been able to turn it into a permanent thing. The wife now does a small amount of documentation from home with her new job, its kind of weird both being home but working.

Time will tell, but I think its a net positive.

[tgapp]

I never would have had the opportunity to WFH before COVID, and I've been able to turn it into a permanent thing. The wife now does a small amount of documentation from home with her new job, its kind of weird both being home but working.

Time will tell, but I think its a net positive.

we've had more or less the same experience, with my wife being home fulltime now (i've worked from home for the past ~5 years now). and honestly - we've loved it. the only difference that saddens me is she is less inclined to go on weekend trips with me, since alone time now comes at a premium. i get it - i really do - and on the whole it's been a great change...but i wish i could get her out camping with me more often.

[gretch6364]

Different furnace systems obviously require a different approach. We have in floor radiant heating and then geothermal ac and changing the temps at night during the winter would be a terrible idea.

Luckily, our master is on the first floor and separated from the main house and has its own thermostat for the bedroom and bathroom. Then, the bedrooms upstairs don’t have the heat, so if you close the doors, they chill nicely at night.

I set the house at 68, bedroom at 64 and leave it all winter. Wife complains a little but never touches the settings....operating the house, doing repairs, etc. is left as my domain.

Main issue...she likes to run the fan in the master bathroom at night for sound, so the door has to be open, so I can’t keep the bathroom warmer then the bedroom. May try to surprise her with a sound machine...lol.

Summer...run the geothermal ac maybe 6 times a year. Fully foamed 2x6 walls with the first floor fully shaded by wrap around porch. Open the windows in the evening...house will get down to 55...close them in the mornings and it won’t get above 75. Only a day or two each year above high 80s here though.

3800 sq ft and gas bills are like $45 spring through fall and $200 dead of winter. Electric is $35/$120. I am sure it would be lower, but our office, laundry room and mud room are unfortunately electric baseboard and I put electric heated floors in the upstairs bathrooms when remodeling. I did run 220 and put in new baseboards, which helped.


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[gretch6364]

Wife and I share an office and have worked from home together for several years...it’s been great. Especially with two young kids on the dumb 8:40 to 2:40 school schedule and early release Wednesdays (12:40).

JHC...do kids go to school part time now a days?


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[skaredshtles]

<snip>
3800 sq ft

In the RFV??

[gretch6364]

In the RFV??

Yes...but not in Aspen, lol. Bought a couple places in Denver (LODO and Platte Park) when the wife and I were young...road the wave and cashed out. Have over $400k of equity and only bought two years ago. Rolled it 100% into the new place and father, who has built many houses, and I each probably put 1,000 hours of work into it the last two years. Grandpa was a carpenter and taught us both a great deal, although I no longer touch drywall or plumbing and hate tying pig tails. Justifying it obviously, but it all came from hard work and zero trust fund. Felt the sq ft was relevant to the utility bill discussion.

[old goat]

. Wife complains a little but never touches the settings....operating the house, doing repairs, etc. is left as my domain.

May try to surprise her with a sound machine...lol.

A humidifier makes a nice gentle sound machine--personally I don't like the noise but it's better than listening to my wife cough all night.
I don't think I'd want a house I had to "operate".

[gretch6364]

A humidifier makes a nice gentle sound machine--personally I don't like the noise but it's better than listening to my wife cough all night.
I don't think I'd want a house I had to "operate".

Humidifies are such a PITA though...unless you need them for health reasons. Fingers crossed, we all love dry so far in our lives.

By “operate” I mean locking doors at night, controlling the thermostats, opening and closing windows in the summer to control heat, resetting the internet when needed, unclog toilets or garbage disposal when a spoon or shot glass falls in, programming sprinklers, making morning coffee, etc. normal shit. Everyone has their jobs.

Not like running an air force base or something , haha.


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[old goat]

Humidifies are such a PITA though...unless you need them for health reasons. Fingers crossed, we all love dry so far in our lives.

By “operate” I mean locking doors at night, controlling the thermostats, opening and closing windows in the summer to control heat, resetting the internet when needed, unclog toilets or garbage disposal when a spoon or shot glass falls in, programming sprinklers, making morning coffee, etc. normal shit. Everyone has their jobs.

Not like running an air force base or something , haha.


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I was picturing one of those super high tech This Old House houses with a basement that looks like the reactor room on a nuclear submarine. I guess I already have a house I have to operate. Damn.

My wife loves lamps. All on timers. Must be 8 or 10 timers. All that get mysteriously messed with so the lights go on in the middle of the night or in borad daylight until I reset them. Which involves being on my hands and knees with a headlamp,

[gretch6364]

I was picturing one of those super high tech This Old House houses with a basement that looks like the reactor room on a nuclear submarine. I guess I already have a house I have to operate. Damn.

Yep...as they say, the work of a homeowner never stops. I would love a dryer that folds my clothes for me. I get garbage and shoveling the driveway, we share cooking and dishes, she folds 80% of the laundry...but fuck it’s the worse chore. Grocery shopping sucked until click list...we deal with fruit and lettuce that goes bad in two days to not have to grocery shop. Two worse choirs IMO...grocery shopping and folding laundry.

Lol on the lamps. Something I wonder if it is even worth the energy. Like Christmas lights. I love Christmas...hate putting up lights.


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[98brg2d]

JHC I love my wife but we just finished dumping $4000 into her car over the last 5 months to fix it because she didn’t tell me anything was wrong and she takes my car for the day (last day in the shop for hers) and she returns it with a check engine light.

Fucking cursed. Her last car was about to explode (stretched timing chains due to too long OCI) when she wrote it off and car before that had an engine rattle that led to the decision to sell it. When she wrote off her last car I gave her mine (and bought myself a different car), which was in great shape until she ran something over, splitting the cv boot and the vibrations caused all sorts of other issues in the last 5 months.

And she still thinks I’m joking when I say I’m buying her a beater.

[XXX-er]

IME if she comes home and sez she is cold ... check the heater in the car

[old goat]

Yep...as they say, the work of a homeowner never stops. I would love a dryer that folds my clothes for me. I get garbage and shoveling the driveway, we share cooking and dishes, she folds 80% of the laundry...but fuck it’s the worse chore. Grocery shopping sucked until click list...we deal with fruit and lettuce that goes bad in two days to not have to grocery shop. Two worse choirs IMO...grocery shopping and folding laundry.

Lol on the lamps. Something I wonder if it is even worth the energy. Like Christmas lights. I love Christmas...hate putting up lights.


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Personally I deal with putting clothes in the drawer the same way I deal with putting a sleeping bag in the sack.

[skaredshtles]

Yes...but not in Aspen, lol. Bought a couple places in Denver (LODO and Platte Park) when the wife and I were young...road the wave and cashed out. Have over $400k of equity and only bought two years ago. Rolled it 100% into the new place and father, who has built many houses, and I each probably put 1,000 hours of work into it the last two years. Grandpa was a carpenter and taught us both a great deal, although I no longer touch drywall or plumbing and hate tying pig tails. Justifying it obviously, but it all came from hard work and zero trust fund. Felt the sq ft was relevant to the utility bill discussion.

BOOTSTRAPS!!