I don’t know how I ever lived in an age before smart thermostats, when I feel back to when I was a kid and all my wonderful friend and I had was the traditional dial thermostat, and then if my wonderful friend and I go back even further from that and talk about my parents’ generation when they didn’t even have heating and a/cs, it seems shocking that anyone would survive! But the truth is, that was just the way of life back then and when you don’t know what you are missing then you don’t miss anything, and i guess it’s funny how it continues throughout the generations because I feel my kids are entirely spoiled being so used to having a smart thermostat, and they’re just used to walking into the home and having the temperature being exactly what they wanted to be.
This is because I have our smart thermostat programmed, because it’s a programmable thermostat, to come on and set the indoor temperature of the home to their temperature preferences as soon as they come house from school, but however, on the other side, my Dad thinks I’m spoiled because I have grown up with air conditioning and boilers my entire life whereas she tells me stories about while in her childhood she didn’t even have a heating and A/C system.
If she was sizzling they had to use a fan, and if she was cold they used to fire a place or a boiler! Depending on the time and what year it was. I feel if anything that just shows how much HVAC technology has evolved over time.