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When I lived in Europe as a kid we had no air conditioning - I did not really notice, so no big deal.
Now that I live in Texas, heat is not necessary, but air conditioning is a prerequisite for continued existence.
Until I reached junior high age, 12, 13, we did not have air conditioning. I didn't notice it much, but then my mom made me nap each day when it was hottest. Otherwise, I was put out of the house and told to stay out there until I was called. In high school, I lived in Germany--no A/C there. The years I was there were the hottest in 50 years there, but I didn't notice. I've had a/c since then.
I've lived without both. We never had a/c growing up-but we had a lake out the front door. We used that when we got too hot. I try not to use air conditioning if I can and now that I have moved further north, won't be using as I did in the formerly occupied desert area.
I lived in a house out in the country once with a stodgy furnace on it's good days and electricity that was sometimes infrequent due to storms. So, we didn't rely on the furnace, but boy, I loved that wood stove and a good stack of wood.
We did not have air conditioning in Oklahoma when I was a kid and when it was extremely hot we slept in the yard on our blankies and watched the stars til we feel asleep. Sometimes we slept on our Grandma's big ole screened-in porch and giggled half the night away.
I do not remember noticing the heat but we were not allowed to play outside until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We would turn on the water hose and play in the water when we were released from the house. Great fun.
We did a lot of reading, painting, drawing, sewing, crafts and home schooling during the heat of the day. My oldest cousin was our teacher and a great one, too. I do not know how she tolerated all the brats.
As the youngest brat I was always crying because I could not read. LOL Everyone was relieved when I started school and could read on my own and stopped begging them to read to me.
It was a wonderful life.
We did not have airconditioning in my earliest childhood in Florida. It was hot and humid of course but then I would venture to say most of everyone's memories of houses without airconditioning were designed and built long before A/C became standard in homes. Which means the houses had porches, long roof overhangs, and were designed for cross-ventilation, often being built up on pilings so that air could circulate under the house. These features along with shade trees did a lot to ensure comfort in those hot, humid summers. All of these features have pretty much been stripped from modern track housing in favor of THE BOX, cause its easy and cheap to build. Stick in a HVAC unit which both heats and cools the house but doesn't do both very well and you have the modern track home. By the way the reason the HVAC unit doesnt only one thing well has to do with the placement of the duct work. Mostly in the south, the ducts are on the ceiling so that cool air falls, but it only sends enough heat down in the winter to suffocate your face, keep your toes nice and frozen. The same application in the northern climes has duct work on the floors, you get the idea. I'll step down off of my very well engineered, architectural resplendent soapbox now.
NEVER LIVED IN A HOUSE WITHOUT HEAT
THOUGH IN THE DEPRESSION [30'S] WE
CLOSED OFF PART OF THE HOUSE. IOWA
AIR CONDITIONING IS RATHER NEW. THE
APT. I LIVE IN NOW [1980 TO DATE]
HAS AC BUT SELDOM USED TILL THE EMPHYSEMA STARTED RULING THE ROOST.
NOW IT IS ON 24HRS. WHEN THE HUMIDITY IS UP.
BETTER OR WORSE?? HEAT WAS ALWAYS NEEDED @20 BELOW. STILL WOULDN'T
NEED AC IF THE HEALTH WAS BETTER.
WINE FAIRIE IT IS JUST AS I HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN TAUGHT, WOMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BEHIND MAN'S PROBLEMS
SINCE "THE APPLE" EPISODE.
ARE YOU TELLING ME NOW THAT MY DEAR
OL' PAPPY WAS WRONG???????????
GUMDROP
Didn't have central heat or A/C growing up in England, nor when we had all our babies there.
I remember checking the kids every hour or so in the winter to make sure their hands and feet were safely ensconced UNDER the blankets (or they turned a delightful shade of blue!).
If we had a hot summer (rarely)...it was down to the beach for the day.....and all windows open at night..
Life wasn't better or worse (IMHO)....Just different.
I have never lived in a house with HVAC but both sets of grandparents had those old fashioned water cooled window units... grrrrgggrrrrgggrrrgrrrr (boy they were loud) I remember them constantly telling me to NOT sit directly in front of the vents or else I could die of phenomena or consumption. (They were into scaring kids with horrible life threatening things aka "You'll shoot your eye out, kid")
It was miserable but memorable....East Texas Humid Summer heat with a water cooled mold distributor.... yes sir'ee
Did I mention I would not want to live in any other time than NOW!!!!
Okay, how do yo edit this? sorry, it should have said
I have never lived in a house with"OUT" HVAC ....
I grew up in a home without A/C at all and no heat in the upstairs where our bedrooms were. And this was in Northern Illinois ... gets a tad cold in the winter up there.
We all had electric blankets for the beds during the winter ... but even now, I prefer to sleep in a COLD bedroom.
In the summer we all had box fans in our bedroom windows ... and there was usually a breeze ... hot, humid. windless days were the worst. My grandmother had a in-ground pool about a mile away ... and we had creeks running through our land ... and a garden hose was always nearby ...
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