So, who has put their heating on?

I don't have great insulation, but I'm in a bungalow with low ceilings so maybe that's just as well. Heating half a house probably helps a lot.

I moved in September. I share a flat with my friend now. It's amazingly insulated. Without heating temperature in my room is still between 21 and 23 Celcius

I'm on modest earnings too, and should be a bit more sensible. 

We’ve always lived on a low-ish income unfortunately - so most of these ‘cost of living crisis issues’ are not new to us. 

That's very disciplined! And probably helps a lot financially. I just couldn't stick to such a rule though. If it's a freezing day in August, the radiatiors go on. If it's a warm-ish day in November, they might stay off. 

We never put the central heating on until 1st December. We have a small fan heater that we sometimes put on for a few minutes to take the edge off. In the evening if I’m watching tv I make a hot water bottle and that really keeps me warm. 

Haha it is probably something I got from my Dad and then him from his parents, my dad tells me about when they would wake up to ice on the inside of the windows etc. so sounds like your Grandad!

Last winter I realised I should put heating on when I had 'dragon breath' visible when I breathed out in my downstairs hall in about January...my cats of course have their heated electric pads and all their comforts , and I have bought myself an electric throw thing this year, but I am just a very stressed person when it comes to the environment, so just create myself cosy nest zones in every room and put off switching on the gas until I think I could get sick

Sounds like my Grandad. He refused to put the heating on until it was cold enough and not before. He always said it was cold enough for heating when the windows and ground iced over and wouldn't do until then. I remember me and my sisters sitting with him shivering and then he would say people our age were too soft and pampered lol.

No, but I am constantly freezing hah. I just refuse to put it on until it is 'cold cold' (maybe like icy cold and I can't avoid it) for the cost and environment, but is stressing me out not being able to get clothes dry -- looking into washer driers for the odd times I cant put washing out on the line to dry -- cannot deal with the smell of not properly dry clothes :'( for now I just wear so many layers and wrap blankets around myself so I have to shuffle from room to room...graceful

My heatings been on for a while now. I feel the cold badly so I need it on most of the time. I keep myself wrapped up in jumpers and blankets as well and that helps.

Things are so expensive though, nearly out of oil and I don't know how I'll afford more yet.

'The manopause' - That made me chuckle. I guess that means you won't be shivering if your wife insists on throwing the windows wide open during the cold winter months?  

Depending on what your diet is like, then it's possible that it might be a contributing factor. As a child, I was an incredibly fussy and faddy eater, and I'm no different now. Sometimes I struggle to eat because I just don't feel hungry, or else can't decide what I do fancy eating. I'm also a slow eater too. My build can best be described as androgynous, so I think that goes some way to explaining why I often felt so cold prior to becoming post-menopausal. 

I am going through what I call ‘The manopause, I’m very rarely cold. We have a wood burner which I have lit a couple of times lately, but my wife is also at a stage in her life where she is often very warm as well, she seems to get very angry at times. Obviously I’m never the cause of her anger!

That’s interesting. I have always been cold, and after I started the peri menopause about 8 years ago, I noticed I no longer needed the huge thick winter coats and hats that I required, nor the extra warm winter duvet. However, I am still very cold compared to others. I do wonder if my diet is also to blame. 

The weather is exceedingly mild. I did have the heating on occasionally in October, but this last week it hasn't been on, and in fact, I've had the windows open.

Pure Baltic!

Catlover - You sound similar to how I used to be, right up until I became menopausal. Even when it was sunny, I was the person who would spend most of the year wrapped up, with the heating on, and complaining about how cold it was. The only exception was when there was a heatwave. If I had visitors, they would often end up feeling like they were in a sauna within seconds of entering my home. For them, the heat was often unbearable and headache-inducing. It wasn't just the fact that I'd have the heating on, but that the thermostat would often be turned up as high as it would go.

Since I became menopausal, I seem to have gone the other way. Having said that, I did decide a few weeks ago that the time had come to start putting the heating on again, as there were times during the day when my son and I were noticing that it was getting decidedly chilly. It has to be said that my thermostat is the bane of my life. In order for the heating to come on (and stay on), the thermostat has to be set to 20°C or higher.

I've had mine on for weeks. I am home all the time so it is on from just before I wake up until around when I go to sleep, but on thermostat at about 20c (although due to the location of the thermostat I think it is actually lower than that, but that's the number I set). I have arthritis and can't deal with being cold. Also I did hear it takes more fuel to raise the temp than cold to warm than to maintain, but I'm not sure if that can be true, probably depends on how well insulated it is. I would rather spend money on being comfortable than on other luxuries especially as being too cold makes me painful.

I bought oil in Sept and it’s nearly all gone. I heat the place about two to three hours per day. I work from home two days in five and being cold hits the concentration badly. Which is why my office days are so bad for focus. My colleagues like the window open and it’s like Siberia, plus the roof machinery is very noisy (to my ears anyway). That’s democracy for you! 

I always feel the cold more than most. Last person to take theor jumper off. Luckily, I'm living in a new house that's very well insulated and it makes so much difference. We've only had to put the heating on  this last week.