Inspired by the "Thermostat Simulator" in the humor thread
When I was growing up, it was always too cold or too hot in our house (to me). If it was too cold in the winter, my mom would say "Put a sweater on!" and if it was too hot she'd say "Go outside!" I never understood that one. It's like 80 in the house but it's 90 outside, so I guess I'll stay inside. We were all about saving money on heating and cooling. My dad even got one of those fancy programmable thermostats so it would change the temp at night vs during the day. That way it could always be too cold or too hot in our house, automatically!
Now I have my own place, and we did the same thing for a while, always being careful about the thermostat to save money. Then one day I remembered one other thing my mom used to say. "When you pay the bills, you can set it however you want." That's right! So now I make it as cool as I want in the summer, or as warm and cozy as I want in the winter. My heating bill is higher in the winter and my electric bill is higher in the summer, but I don't care. That's the cost of doing business. I'll pay an extra $30 a month or whatever to be comfortable in my own home.
That's a benefit of being a homeowner.