It’s sort of hard for the younger set to understand that our standard of living hasn’t always been an on demand smorgasbord.
This is something I run into quite a bit and I try to deal with this mindset in an informative and patient way.
The fact of the matter is that I’m of the age where I had to hang up the phone on the wall. And it had a cord attached to it. We also had to actually start a fire in our house for heating during the winter. My parents were not well off at all and inherited an old farm house. There was no such thing in that house that could be described as residential HVAC. I can remember when I was like in 6th grade, my dad brought home an air conditioner. Air conditioning in the summer for us was one window unit air conditioner. But the HVAC cooling that came out of it was like heaven. That’s how air conditioning feels when you don’t have it. These days, I can hardly imagine living in this region without the aid of modern HVAC technology. Yet, I have a really hard time convincing my grown children that we don’t need to set the thermostat in the 70’s when it’s nearly a hundred degrees outside. That just comes with the summer in our house. Sure the HVAC equipment is super efficient and I could probably afford to crank out more HVAC cooling. However, that just doesn’t make much sense to me and seems more like a waste than anything else. I remember what it was like when HVAC cooling was simply a gift.