The real cause of global warming.

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Women.

Yup.

I have been monitoring all of the electricity use over the winter.

Main causes of use are:

Washing Machine
Tumble Dryer
Hair Dryer
Iron
Dishwasher
Hair Straighteners
Vacuum Cleaner

All of these things she is using regularly.

Shes now sitting down there with the electric underfloor heating pulling 3kw.

There is also a contant battle with the thermostat, I down it down to 18c, she turns it back to 21c etc

Yes my PC pulls maybe 400w, the TV far less, a drop in the ocean compared to the above.

So that's it, basically the root cause for the destruction of our planet = Women.

 

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Essay incoming I'm afraid.

My exp with this is mainly around heating, as the other elements are things I wouldn't want to challenge a woman on or are genuinely good uses of electricity vs time spent on the alternative (washing machine, dishwasher).

This is gonna sound like a meme but it's kinda serious, women are just generally softer creatures and are more inclined to seek a remedy at a lower discomfort level. Unless the woman in your life isn't soft + feminine/you want this to change for some reason, it's up to you as the man to make sure this does not get out of control, as she almost certainly doesn't feel like her usage is unreasonable. You are, as the harder, more discomfort tolerant individual, more able to identify unreasonable usage and therefore it is arguably your duty to intervene if you genuinely take issue with it. Of course you need to offer realistic alternatives, making sure to explain why you believe the usage is unreasonable and your alternative is better doing so in a "one team", non confrontational manner. If she is unwilling to engage in this sort of conversation or agrees but then does not act as such (after repeated bouts), just start taking some of this stuff away like you would a child. I think with the right approach it should never get to that point.

I made a point of repeatedly challenging the wife on what I considered to be unreasonable heating use and ended up at a nice compromise. It took repeated bouts of explaining the way they operate (why most women tend to believe - even after multiple explanations - that a higher setting will heat quicker is beyond me), the difference between radiant heat and air temperature as well as the cost implications of setting it too high and then opening bloody windows when it's inevitably too hot.. . but we seem good now.


The compromise is: I set the thermostat schedule (ever so slightly higher than I would like, but lower than she would end up putting things at, historically), she let's me know if she is not happy with the setting, and moves it only half a degree at a time, waiting at least 30 minutes between adjustments. I very rarely get uncomfortable now, and her "number on thermostat lower than I am used to" anxiety has been dealt with through her own experience of the effect of radiant heat presence.

Legend.

 

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Probably should mention.......

She pays the electricity bill.

 

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Does it make any difference? Even without details of the legal status of the relationship I think it's fair to say you're living together you're invested enough that, realistically, what's hers is yours and vice versa

Well indeed.

Then moans about the electric bill....


Like walking into a sauna and complaining it's too hot.