Well, putting aside for the moment the need for an HVAC repairman, there's nothing quite like sleeping in a cold bedroom under a pile of warm blankets. It's hell to leave the bed for any reason... late-night micturition, waking up in the morning... but being under those covers is heaven.

Being a child of a National Park Service ranger and, as a result, having spent my formative years in less-than-airtight govt. provided housing in some of America's more frostier zones, I firmly agree that being pinned under the weight of kinfolk quilts and the old itch and scratch wool -once you get the whole pile up to temp- is one of life's simpler pleasures.

I vote for both.... You surely want the HVAC ready if some major cold front comes through, but the 62 degree temp is PERFECT for sleeping... Nothing beats a big pile o' blankets... But it can also be nice to throw a dog or two on the bed for their warming capacity...

I like them cold nights and deep blankets or them cold outdoor nights and a good sleeping bag. Tell you, that'll do wonders for your bladder retention. You can put it off forever if it means facing a cold room and even colder hardwood floor. When morning comes and you gotta get up, you hit the head and it's like the Jamestown flood all over again...

When I lived in Oregon, I lived in an old creamery building. It was built in 1910 to make butter and ice cream and the like. So it was designed to be cold.

I converted it into a living space, but the only heat was a couple of wood stoves. Those didn't do much in a place that's 5,000 sq ft. Most winters, the average temperature at night was about 42 degrees, but there were a few nights here and there that it actually got down to 22 degrees. Ouch!

So my bed there consisted of two down comforters, an electric blanket, three regular blankets, a sheet, a wool cap for my head and an insulated sleep mask. It was pure torture to have to get up in the night, as the bathroom was at the other end of the building. It was a trek down a long flight of stairs, across cement floors, and dodging puddles from the roof leaks. Fun times!

I'm soooo glad I live in Los Angeles these days! But it has been unseasonably cold this week. I have to laugh at myself because I actually went out and bought a space heater....and it's 62 degrees in here! I've become such a wuss!

Oh, in case I wasn't clear, when I said the temp in Oregon got down to 42 and sometimes 22...that was INSIDE the building. Brrrrrr!

Living in New England again reminded me of the need for warm quilts! Every member of my family has a quilt I made them with a wool batting center. Of course the flannel sheets, electric blankets and a couple of wool blankets really add to the experience. Our thermostat at night is always on the 60 degree mark, even in winter. I have it programed to hit about 70 degrees before we have to get up in the morning and then it goes back down to 60 degrees until just before everyone else gets home. I wear sweaters, sweatshirts, long johns and smart wool socks with my bunny slippers throughout the day. Yes, I'm very aware that my attire will never win me the Miss America Pageant, but the cold really forces me to keep moving and keep busy!

I'm all about the quilts and warm clothes. Last winter I had this inner competition "How low can she go?" with my power company. The goal? To get the power bill as low as possible. That meant I refused to turn on the heat, which is not a problem in most people's eyes as I live in S. FL... except we had a cold snap. My family kept complaining it was cold. I told them to suck it up.

The final straw was when my son was growing meal worms for science and they were on the window sill and actually froze. There was a minor coup in the house, the four of them (wimps) against me. They said 54 deg at the morning in the house was unacceptable. I was forced to turn on the heat the next day...

I kept waking up this week with the same prob, thermostat magically on 60 degrees. Turns out it is one of those programmable ones for every day of the week, vacations, any time of day, etc...supposed to save you money. keep the house colder while you're gone to work, program to come on an hour before you get home for work...all that...well, 60 degrees is the default on this one...and if you dont reset it, that's what you get at like 6 a.m. I looked up the manual online, (as I'm so old I can't read the fine print on the thermostat, barely could read the model number) and fixed the problem. Hope that's all that's wrong with yours. Someone else may have mentioned it, I didn't read all ur comments.