Answering “maybe” in response to “Is it not for financial reasons?” does not, in any way, clarify that’s she’s talking specifically about people with arbitrary principles.
But that’s not the only type of person that exists. You can have enough money to pay for it, but not want to out of principle that arose from finances.
Only if you don’t understand what a principle is. Which you don’t seem to.
In any event, I have to go now, so take this participation trophy and be proud.
I’m clarifying it now, and in the OP I thought I made it clear that I meant people that turn the heat or AC on based on the calendar. That’s why I thought your responses were so bizarre, because I clearly wasn’t talking about people that didn’t turn the heat on because they couldn’t afford it.
My apartment building doesn’t turn on the heat until the 15th. It’s been a cold couple of days!
Personally, I hate the AC. In very hot weather, it’s nice to cool down for a few minutes when I come inside. But i dislike spending any amount of time in a chilled room. Supermarkets in the summer are my enemy.
My response was based on your calendar remarks. Why can’t that still be financially driven, as you even agreed might be possible?
And you don’t seem to realize that principle’s generally aren’t formed out of thin air
And you plan it for not just when you think it will get cold, but when it will stay cold. Because at the same time as I get my furnace cleaned, I am also taking the air conditioners out of the windows etc. If I do it too early (like the end of September) , then I’m likely to end up with a week where I want the air conditioning, not heat. If I wait until late October, that’s not likely to happen. And the same thing in reverse in the spring. It could be 80 degrees for a week in March, and I’m still not turning the heat off and putting the air conditioners in until May, because it will get cold again
But I wouldn’t start a thread asking people why they don’t turn they heat on when they can’t afford it.
That’s right, you didn’t, which is why I offered it as possible answer to your question, which you seemed to accept as a possibility.
then you plant yourself in the yard naked on a lawn chair under a lawn sprinkler.
Ok, I lied. I’m still here.
The reason the expression is “It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing” is because the accepted idea we humans have of principles is that they are divorced from economic realities.
Why is this so hard? Why am I wasting my time on it? Why did the Jets get Tebow if they were not going to use him in their running game?
This pie chart will hopefully clarify things for you.
There are no words, but I’ll try anyway.
If you were familiar with a concept called “humor”, you would realize that your link proves my point.
And if you understood this strange “humor” concept as much as you purport to, you would realize “humor” is often “humorous” because it’s based in truth.
I have as much chance of enlightening you as I do of teaching my cat to play “Rule Britannia” on a xylophone, but I’ll take on one more windmill.
Yes, people say it is the principle when it is really money, but that is because they are LYING. If it is really the principle, it has nothing to do with money. People lying do not change the meaning of words.
So when someone says it is the principle of the thing, they may be lying (gasp, clutch the pearls!), but I am still free to take their statement at face value, which would be IT’S NOT THE MONEY!
Even if you can, when it comes down to it, afford it, you may feel like you’d rather spend your cash on hookers and blow than heating.
This is the first thing you’ve said that I agree with.
I suspect we would differ on the reason for it, however.
I thought your OP was completely clear.
I live in an apartment. My heat isn’t thermostatically controlled (baseboard). I don’t turn it on until chilly weather is forcast for the next whole week. Otherwise, it gets waaaayyyy too warm whenever the sun comes out to give us a glorious 70-75 degree day. For AC in the spring, the heat has to be off at least a week (I cool with box fans then) before I relent to turning it on. Once on, it usually stays on for the season.
