My wife plus I had a little trick to make sure that the kids didn’t touch the control device all through late September plus January.
The people I was with and I noticed quite a while ago that our kids have a tendency to change the control device to whatever temperature they please every now plus then.
My wife plus I set a very adequate temperature on the control device in the Wintertide time. The people I was with and I choose to keep it at 75°. That is perfectly warm! And yet the kids think the need to mess with the control device late at night when they guess the two of us won’t pay them any heed. However, my wife plus I can tell when the control device has been messed with. It’s a little warmer than it should be, plus sure enough, when I walk into the hallway, I see that the temperature has changed by a few degrees, and so, after Thanksgiving, my wife put a little note on the control device to make sure it was clear that the kids were not allowed to touch it under any circumstances. The note simply said if you turn the dial up, there would be less presents on Christmas, plus if you kept the dial down, then there would be more presents on Christmas. Our kids needed to understand that it costs money to heat our house. In fact, it costs much more money to heat a house than it does to cool it with an cooling system. It’s not care about they were going to freeze to death anytime soon with the control device set to 68°. I thought my wife’s idea was a great 1!