Being cheap with air conditioning can result in dangerous indoor climate conditions
My brother is the cheapest person I have ever met.
He once drove a car on no oil for 200 miles before his engine nearly exploded on the side of the interstate.
Needless to say, it was totaled after that little experience and he had to get another used car to abuse following his trip to the dump. All he needed to do was either check the oil once in a while himself and add some if need be, or have the oil changed by a reputable mechanic of some kind. Either way, being cheap and lazy got my brother nowhere in life but through a path of pain and misery. I have two children that I’m struggling to raise on my own and I hate to admit that I use their uncle as a model of a person they do not want to emulate at any cost. It goes even farther than the episode with his car. He does it with his house too. Despite how he comes across, my brother has a good job as the head of maintenance at a university in our county. He makes fairly good money at what he does everyday, so it’s not like he lacks the funds to pay for necessities in life. Why he thought that he could simply go without using indoor climate control in the summer is beyond me. He knows that we have a lot of mold problems in this area and that letting indoor humidity go unabated is a recipe for disaster. I have an air conditioner running for most hours of the day. If I neglected using an air conditioner, I would have poor indoor air quality in my house. It’s one thing to do this to myself, but I have two young children in this house with me.