Cold

Most definitely cold.

I am pretty well balanced I think, but might lean more to the hot side. I love winter.

Sue

Hot when I have the hot surges.

I keep the temp cool, I don't understand why people crank up the heat then wear a sleeveless tank top.

Anyway, cool temps but I wear t-shirt/turtleneck and sweatshirt. I've had the heat on periodically just to take the chill and dampness out.

The university where my husband works adopted a universal energy saving program a couple of years ago. It tried encouraging everyone to turn lights off and to be sensible about adjusting their thermostat....HAH! That tactic sure didn't work. So, it's all operated by the central plant now and the university has realized savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Employees learned to dress appropriately for less than tropical temperatures! How dumb is it to wear open toed heels, bare legs, sleeveless dresses, and the like in the winter? And why can't PhDs
turn off their office and lab lights?

Robert and I are both cold natured. All it takes for us to feel comfortable in the transition from summer to winter is to turn off the ceiling fans, don some warmer indoor clothes, and change the bedding. I have an electric warming blanket that I'll put on the bed when it gets really cold here. That hasn't happened yet.

Our thermostats are set for the low 60s....a tad cooler at night.

Cold.

ever since my hyst and now on anti-hormone tabs, i change like a yoyo...

dh has the overhead fan on and a tiny one he aims at his feet...i can't stand either, so bed hop during the night...but like now my feet are freezing and rest ok...so have a space heater...

Hot. I over heat very easily. My goal is to move back to the coast where AC doesn't exist and everyday high's are in the low 60's. That would be heaven for me! 90 degree summers are torture for me. LOL

HOT!

And I'm a fan person all year round.

Bed fan, ceiling fan and box fan during the winter with the deck door open.(how much it's open depends on the temp)

Computer desk always have a desk fan all year round.

Have an expandable hand fan in my purse always.

Traveling portable fans are a must.

Gotta have moving air.

I lean towards the cold side. My Dad who is 92 cannot tolerate the cold at all and we have to keep the heat turned up pretty high all winter. I must take after him! My living room furniture has an afghan thrown over the back of each piece to use to keep warm! I cover up even in the summer!
Joann

hot natured. DH has three blankets on, and I u sed just a sheet.

Glenda_AL said:
"HOT!

And I'm a fan person all year round.

Bed fan, ceiling fan and box fan during the winter with the deck door open.(how much it's open depends on the temp)

Computer desk always have a desk fan all year round.

Have an expandable hand fan in my purse always.

Traveling portable fans are a must.

Gotta have moving air."

Glenda, You expressed my nature exactly. The moving air is key. Sometimes it is not that hot, but if the air is still, I feel like I'm going to suffocate.

I am a perfect 72 degrees. If it's lower than that, I am chilly, if higher, I am too warm. I do prefer cool temps for sleeping.

I used to work in an office where we had thermostat wars. All of us would be dying of the heat but the little skinny underdressed boss (can you tell I didn't like her?) was always cold. She had the thermostat moved into her office so she could control keep it high. The minute she walked out, one of us was in there lowering it. Gawd, I am so happy to be out of there.

This is a very interesting topic for me ... All my life I was a cold-natured person. Freezing all the time.

We live in a very temperate climate here near the beaches of Southern California. It seldom hits freezing and there is usually a nice breeze to keep things unbearably hot but ... when the kids were young every year my husband would try to talk me into going down to the harbor for the annual five night Christmas boat parade. Each year I said it was just too darn cold there so he alone took the kids year after year.

Then, in 2006 I announced to him I was going to Antarctica for 8 days with a friend. He was happy I had the opportunity but was dumbfounded that I, a person who found 55 or 60 degrees at Newport Beach unbearable would willingly go to the Antarctic. I did - I survived and I even enjoyed it more than you can imagine.

Since that trip, I have become a hot-blooded person seldom in need of a coat or sweater, even in winter. And I crave the cold, opting to vacation in places like Alaska (3 times), Japan, Russia and Canada, all in the winter. Cold weather ... bring it on. Love it.

Oh, and I finally did go to the Christmas boat parade a few years ago. :-)

Jodi-

I used to be exactly how my daughter is now. I would wear knee socks, sweatpants, sweatshirt to bed. Bed had flannel sheets, and blanket and a comforter.

Then BAM, menopause. Thermostat is set on 62. I wear a tshirt year round. Sandals late into the fall. Sheet for me, while DH has sheet, blanket, bedspread, sweatshirt, etc. It is astounding to me how d@mn hot I get.

The 90 degree summer is torture for me. I live for cold weather. Don't know if this will change again as I get older or not. But as far as how I feel now, I would prefer to be too cold than too hot. You can always bundle up.

Hot -- no doubt.....the only thing that gets cold are my feet. My hands are so warm, people want me to warm up their hands by holding mine!! Hehe

Since my brain went haywire, the only part of me that gets cold is my right shoulder. The rest of me is pretty neutral year-round. My right hand is the only part of my body that can feel if the rest is either hot or cold on the surface. If someone with super cold hands, for instance, touches me anywhere on my body other than this hand, I can't tell.

Hot - which is why I would never live in the South.

Hot. It's finally cooling down here in Wisconsin and I love it. Others are wearing coats to work and I'm still wearing short sleeves. I leave my fan on during the night and at work.

Cold. Been cold all of my life. Anything below 75 degrees and I am cold. I'm very tiny with no "padding" so perhaps that is the reason. Hubby jokes and says I don't have any blood in my veins...it's all caffeine. LOL He is hot all the time while I am freezing. I guess opposites DO attract.

I'm with the seasons....hot when it's hot and cold when it's cold. Just no pleasin' me! I always want it to be what it's not.....

I'm with the seasons....hot when it's hot and cold when it's cold. Just no pleasin' me! I always want it to be what it's not.....

Hot
I also am a fan person. Gotta have air moving

I use to be HOT natured until menopause then the thermostat totally broke. I'm usually hot when I should be cold and cold when I should be hot, so I always have some kind of sweater or jacket handy and layer.

I lean to the hot side....barely. But, in the winter my feet stay cold when I'm inside. Go figure.

I'm so hot natured I didn't even know the difference when hot flashes started. :(

Sweating heavily and turning red has made me uncomfortable most of my life...no fun in public.

Oh man... sun loving, heat seeking, happiest when it's 90+ degrees and I'm outside enjoying it! By the time it drops into the 60's the heating blanket will be on the bed.

On the flip side? At night the windows are open, the ceiling fan is on and a box fan is blowing right on me. MAJOR fan addiction here!

I wear jackets year round because I love the cold and it makes me sleepy. In the winter I can handle wearing shorts and tank tops all the time, but I have to wear thick clothes in order to keep all my body heat and stay awake. I am hot natured. My boyfriend uses me as a heater when he is cold. Which I don't mind because it cools me down and we both fall asleep. Since I am warm natured I feel like I am cold all the time even though I am actually really warm to the touch. I love the cold. It is relaxing to me. Even though I am tiny so I get chill bumps. I don't start shivering unless I am in the south with wet cold air. Up north I can just sit in shorts and a shirt curled up reading. I don't know if I made any since with this rant, but my pint is I am happily warm-natured and love the cold.

Cold. Don't like being cold. Once cold I cannot get warm. Simply putting more clothes on does nothing for me. I don't tolerate high heat as well as I did in the past but I hate cold the most. I just went to get a breakfast sandwich. It's 59 degrees outside. I used my seat warmers in the car. No heat in the house but I am wearing bear paw uggs on my feet. I love temps in the mid 80s/low 90s.

I feel hot all the time since right before menopause. It used to be DH who was too warm while I was chilly, but as we have both gotten older, he's now cold while I'm too warm. We have always kept the thermostat low in the winter - like 64 or 65 - and we just wear appropriate clothes and slippers. But now I can't wear some of my sweaters because they are just too heavy.

Cold all the time. Even in the summer. I am under a blanket or have one close by. I wasn't always this way. I remember when I went through menopause that I would have those awful hot flashes and just be sweating all the time. Now that I am in my mid 70's I am always freezing. Socks on to sleep and the warmest gown I have. Love flannel sheets. Sweater too.

I am definitely on the hot blooded side. I start to fade when it gets above 75. HATE it when it gets 90 and above. We have been having a heat wave here of 90-100 for the last month. I can't do anything but sit in a LR chair with the ceiling fan going and all the shades pulled down. We don't have A/C here because we never before had much hot weather. And always got cool ocean breezes in the afternoon or fog overnight to cool things off. The weather has really changed in the last few years.

From childhood to 40's I use to be cold all the time. Always wore long sleeves and pants and even sweaters when others were in shorts and sleeveless shirts. Menopause changed all that and now my thermostat is stuck on hot.

I want to move north to Oregon or Washington to cooler weather and DH wants to move to Southern California to warmer weather. As he has got older he is feeling the cold more.

Cold, Cold, Cold!! My feet are usually cold, sometimes in summer too...I wear a sweatshirt to bed in the summer (window is open) husband can sleep in his underwear all year round, I am the opposite..In winter I wear an undershirt, sweatshirt, jogging pants and socks to bed.

Under the conditions you describe, I do not completely cover myself. I pull the corner of the blanket over my upper body and shoulders and let the rest 'hang out'. I do wear pajamas so my lower parts are not bare. Leaving my legs and feet uncovered regulates my body temperature well.

I love, and thrive, in the cold. If I'm ever really cold, I just enjoy it, and figure everyone else must be freezing to death. Heat is only to be endured - and we have long hot summers here in central Kansas. We were 1° cooler than the nations hot spot 2 days ago. But thankfully, that should be about the last of the temperatures 100° and over.....

We are the last people to turn the furnace on, and 80°F is about as hot as I can stand indoors without turning the AC on. In 2011 we never turned our furnace on at all, just used a Sun Cloud Infrared Heater to heat our home, when needed, and we have a solar panel to heat the house during the day.

I do the snow removal and hubby does the mowing (he can take the heat better than I can). Suits us both just fine ;-).

For those of you who are cold all the time.....have you had your thyroid checked? I am usually cold, but I do have a low performing thyroid.