My grandparents used to be extremely uptight back in the day.
My dad said that he would snack on raw potatoes when there was no other food available as his mother didn’t believe in having snacks in the house.
They would eat at meal time and that was it. When they watched my sister and I when we were young, my mother would sneak snack food into my backpack so we’d have something to eat while we were there. It wasn’t just snacks that they were stingy with, they were also really selective on what they would feed guests for meals and usually gave out the smallest portion sizes. I couldn’t really figure out their modus operandi as a kid, especially when it came to indoor climate control. Despite what one might assume, my grandparents were not poor or struggling financially. My grandfather sold his business at 65 and was sitting on a comfortable nest egg. Regardless of their access to capital, neither would budge on their adamant refusal to use air conditioning of any kind. In their minds, even window air conditioners are a sin for self-reliance. They relentlessly held the position that people should live as close as they did back 200 years ago when indoor electricity wasn’t even a far off dream in someone’s mind. Despite the discomfort it brings them, my grandparents just will not get an air conditioner. I could prove to them that they would be much more comfortable, but it still wouldn’t help to change their mindsets grading air conditioners. They see people who use air conditioning as weak, yet they have no problem with indoor heating systems. I’d venture to guess they have the opposite feeling about furnaces and heat.