I have three kids who are all teenagers.
As you can imagine, my home is regularly a mess & our schedule is crazy.
None of my kids are able to drive yet, so my fiance & I are always running them around from activity to activity. This past year has proven really difficult to stay on top of their shenanigans, because they got into a really bad habit of changing the thermostat settings. When my fiance & I told them that they weren’t allowed to change the temperature of our home without permission, they argued that their friends were able to do it at their houses. This seemed unlikely, but even so, my friend and I couldn’t’ afford to recklessly heat & cool our house. My friend and I had a smart thermostat that controlled the temperature for us so that our Heating, Ventilation & A/C system would run efficiently. When our kids proved that they were not capable of keeping their hands off the thermostat, my friend and I had no other option but to purchase a protective box to arena around the thermostat. One installed, it would prevent anyone from opening it up & changing the temperature without a key. My fiance & I hid the key in a secret location & my friend and I never shared the location around the kids. Once they know where it’s at, they’ll steal it to change the temperature. Our kids were furious at first, but my friend and I haven’t had any issues with the temperature changing since! My friend and I should’ve installed the box around our thermostat a long time ago.