My grandparents are a lot different than me.
Obviously they come from a different generation, but they also have vastly different practices when it comes to their own home.
For one, I don’t wear my shoes in the house anymore. This is something I quit doing after I started renting my own studio apartment for the first time. After I started mopping my own floors with shoes being worn in the house, I realized how disgusting the mop water was just after a day of walking around. That’s in part why I quit doing that once I started to live on my own. But I also realized that I didn’t have to worry about my parents and my grandparents telling me I was wasting their electricity. For once I could pay my own electricity bill and worry about my own electricity usage. And this resulted in me taking ownership over my air conditioner use. I don’t feel bad about using the air conditioner when I’m hot or when there’s a heat wave outside. It’s my electricity bill at the end of the day and I’m happy to use the air conditioner even if it causes the bill to go up a little bit. I don’t have to worry about my parents or my grandparents complaining while they insist on never using the air conditioner themselves. My grandparents rarely use air conditioning at their house. But the funny thing about that is that both of my grandparents insist on using the furnace even when it’s not particularly cold outside. They’re kind of two-faced about HVAC use, where they bemoan using air conditioning on the one hand while insisting on abusing their heating system on the other.