When I talk to people they often ask me why I haven’t chosen to have kids.
- I think that this is a very rude question and I’m not sure why anybody would utter that phrase from their mouths.
It is shocking that people would pry into your personal decisions that way. To be fair, I am a middle-aged, successful professional who seems like they have everything together. From the outside it probably looks like I have life all figured out and I am a good candidate for bringing new functional humans into this world. However, the truth is that I would much rather have my mental and physical health than children. This is applicable all the way down to my indoor air quality control devices. If you aren’t aware, indoor air quality control is not cheap. If you are running a central heating and cooling system on a regular basis, it is rather expensive. This is true whether you have one person in the house or a massive family that is demanding advanced air temperature control from a single thermostat. I’ve always wondered how air conditioning units and forced air furnaces were able to keep up with the chaos of modern families. According to my heating and cooling technician, they can’t. It turns out, many of the heating and cooling system failures that modern families contend with are caused by their abuse of the air conditioning unit and forced air furnace. Having children amplifies the number of times that you will alter your thermostat and neglect your heating and cooling system maintenance. In my eyes, it’s more valuable to have energy efficient and well-maintained heating and cooling equipment than to bring more HVAC abusers into this world.