If anyone needs boxes for packing or shipping, we have a garage full of them. Long before I even suspected any AD, DH was beginning to save every cardboard box that came through the door--shoe boxes, cartons from small appliances and electonics, shipping boxes from online purchases. He has also got coffee cans, peanut cans, baby wipe containers, you name it. I sneak some out when I can, but can't do a massive toss out without a war starting. He even started stacking them in our downstairs den until our grownup kids backed me on leaving room for family space. On the other hand, he is also obsessive about keeping the trash cans (kitchen, bath, etc.) empty. He will scoop up whatever is in the kitchen one (YUCK), transfer it to as grocery bag, and take it to the outside bin. This also started several years ago and I just thought he was getting more and more eccentric. He is still pretty much still stage 3. Can't wait (hah!) to see what's next.
He came home from his walk and he locked everything up. It is about 77 or 78 outside and if he had left the doors open there would have been a nice breeze going through the house. I've given up and turned on the air conditioner because it is so damp out there that once the house has been closed up, there is nothing else you can do.
I was changing sheets and folding stuff when he closed the house up. I'm felling so hot it is hard to deal with it. And the air conditioner won't turn on because it isn't quite warm enough inside for that to happen.
Starling, our thermostat has a "fan" setting and an "on" switch as well, so I can have the fan circulating the air if it is not hot enough to trigger the AC.
A fan is a big help. I feel like I am smothering in a area that is closed up unless it is cool or a fan is moving air around. I keep a ceiling fan all the time in most of our rooms. Keep them as slow as they will go.
We put ceiling fans in most of the rooms. I use them in the room I'm in a lot of the time just to get air moving, but he will complain that they make him cold. And yes, that is almost certainly the disease.
Starling, there is a way to position the blades so they push the air upward instead of downward and that is the setting I use all the time because I can't stand the air blowing on me either. Tell him the electric company said you had to have them on and that is the law. Orders from people of authority carry a lot of weight here, more than from me. One time I told my Mom we would be arrested if we didn't do such and such. Works pretty good here but might not for you. You might do the blinds the same way if it helps. I know I couldn't stand the closed up business.
LOL on Ol Don's post! I guess no matter when you read it (2 days later for me) it is STILL a belly laugh!! So so funny & I too needed that! The "jet trails" used to be something my DH focused on obsessively when we were out & about, but now, doesn't even notice them :( Sad. He used to say "there go our guys", which I thought was really sweet! My daughter had a photographer friend take a picture of one for Father's Day last year & framed it & gave it to him as a gift...He loved it! It's the "little things". No "bed making" in this house unless I do it, however, LOTS & LOTS of things moved around constantly. Chair cushions onto the floor, chairs turned upside down, chairs pulled out from tables, bed pillows pulled away from headboard, and any "fringe" on pillows becomes pulled off as well. No buttons left on my daughter's Pottery Barn linen comforter...all were pulled off or "broken" off and brought to me in pieces...oh well...guess one day we'll replace that. I have put up a "kiddie gate" in the hallway leading to the 2 back bedrooms to avoid the TV being "put" or "pulled" onto the floor a 4th time...Wonder why it took me so long to do this?? You'd think I'd have learned!! LOL ;)