"THE WATER BILL'S GOING TO BE OUTRAGEOUS!"

I guess people that live up north have to run their faucets all winter then? your pipes aint gonna freeze inside the house if you got the heater going. Especially if you got a concrete slab. If you got a 100 year old house with a crawl space underneath you might need to keep it flowing but not in a modern home.Now an outside hose bibb is a different story but they make those frost proof now the valve sits about 6 inches inside the wall intead of right under the handle. Old habits just die hard

Damn right!

Here in Tuscaloosa, every house I've lived in, including this one now, all have had crawl spaces with exposed copper pipe. Keep that water a-flowin is what I do.

Maggie, you, Brads wife and my wife are the only 3 women in the great state of Alabama apparently, that know to shut doors, leave the water dripping, turn the lights off, and turn the dog house door to the south in this weather.

My wife even LIKES the thermostat set at 61F in the winter and 75f in the summer. I'm a truly blessed man. As I was typing this, she told our daughter to turn off a light.

Add mine to that list.

I'd be damned if that chit would fly in my house. She'd be going back to her mothers. Thank God I got one of the few with common sense.

In full disclosure I have to fight with mine to let me keep the thermostat on 65 in the winter and I turn it down to 68 at night in the summer. This fat boy sleeps better when it's cool.

I�ve got lights that stay on 24/7/365 that would give some of y�all heart attacks I feel like

I went 100% LED a few years ago though, so they shouldn't be too bad.

How many of y'all leave on at least one light at night in the den or hall or somewhere when you go to bed?

I've seen houses that are pitch black at night and wonder how loudly someone curses when they step on a Lego or jam their toe in a chair getting up at 2:43 a.m. to get a drink of water.

We don't leave any overhead lights on but have a few "nightlights" in the halls and bathrooms.

If I had it to build again, I would have put a light switch beside my bed for the living room lights. That way if I heard a bump in the night I could turn on the LR lights from the BR, which would startle the crap out of a burgler and give me the upper hand.

Like a cave at my house. No Lego's these days and there has been enough fuss made in the past that chairs get pushed in as the table is cleared. All that said, We do keep a mini fridge in the bedroom with a few bottles of water so I don't have to trample through the rest of the house in the middle of the night.

X 20 bulbs X 365 days a year

Would buy a nice new rifle!

After so many times of telling one to shut up. Ask your friends if they want a b_tchin wife you had enough!

Yep; I am about ready to put motion sensors on all mine

Listnen to one very rude woman on her cell phone at the docs office...shes a redkneck and im bout ready to karate chop her

A friend of mine closed on a house last Friday (the 29th of December); he did have the heat running as freezing was an obvious concern and he hadn't moved in yet.
His wife went to show her mom the house on the 2nd and the whole thing was FLOODED.
The hot water heater had for some unknown reason been installed in the attic and the pipe had completely burst in two. Water pressure was strong enough that it had sprayed holes through the walls. Good thing he has insurance!!

Running the heat does NOT guarantee you won't have problems.

Is it common to put a water heater in the attic? Dang.

Not a perfect solution but you could look into some wifi enabled switches for lamps.

Seen it a couple of times.