My sisters and I were overjoyed when my dad was transferred to the southwestern part of the country for his job! This would mean no more cold winters.
Our parents always kept the heating to a minimum.
So much, that we would all get sick all the time. They were real cheap skates! So believe me when I say, the move was like a miracle! All the way there my sisters and me were dreaming of how much fun the 3 of us were going to have in the sunshine, however it was still Winter season time when the 3 of us moved and the 3 of us were looking forward to escaping the chilly weather and the barely-used heating system. Our first few months in our new apartment down South were perfect, and the Winter season weather was lovely and the place was the perfect temperature with no furnace or gas furnace going! By the time the sizzling summer season rolled around, though, we all quickly found out that our parents were as frugal about running the a/c as they had been about running the gas furnace up north. The control device on the dial thermostat was kept at 86 degrees and the air conditioning unit and system just didn’t keep the place cool at all. My sisters as well as myself spent most of our summer seasons at the pool since none of us barely had the comfort of air conditioning in our apartment, however now that I’m an adult, I happily pay the extra money to run the air conditioning system ice-chilly cold all summer season and keep the furnace going full blast all Winter season long!