So my wife and I get along in absolutely every aspect of our life together. Except for one.

She has some weird obsession with the thermostat. She would come home and set that bastard to max heat thinking that the house would heat up faster if the temp was set higher. During the summer she would turn the AC off when she left the house, not wanting to waste energy. You see AC systems are really good at maintaining a temperature and have a harder time trying to recover a temperature or in other words being the temperature down.

Oh the fights. We would argue about this just several times a week. So I proposed a compromise. I told her that I would go out and buy a fancy smart thermostat that she could control with her phone or at the wall. She agreed.

Last spring I went out and bought one. I had every intention of installing it properly until I realized on the other side of the wall was my office and over that particular section of wall was my wall mounted coat rack.

So basically I drilled a hole in the other side of the wall, pushed the wires through, installed the old programmable thermostat below the coat rack where the coats do a great job of hiding it and put in $300 dummy where the old one was.

She loves the new Thermostat. She fucks with it both at home and at work, 3 of her friends now have the same model. All the while our HVAC system runs on the old one that I programmed 10 years ago.

Getting that off my chest feels good.