Posted on 01/25/2015 8:57:51 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit. Over time, my beard will grow to the point where I’ll be indistinguishable from a medium-sized woodland creature. The villagers I’ll come to know during my rare visits to town will call me “the wolfman,” not least because I will communicate solely by howling and scratching out messages with my clawlike fingernails. For now, I live in a big city, where such unconventional grooming habits are frowned upon, but I make a point of using very little heat.
I’ve suffered for living the no-heat lifestyle.
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I thought you meant “purported”
Reminds me of the old 11 room house I was raised in. There was no heat upstairs, rather a floor grate which let the downstairs heat up thru to my sisters bedroom....where we all slept when it was really bitter cold....sometimes even the inside of the windows had frost on them!
We use to stand over that grate to warm our nighties up, then jump into bed fast laughing! LOLOL... Plenty of blankets to stay warn all night,... but nobody wanted to get out of bed in the morning!
We’d run downstairs to the floor furnance and stood over it to warm back up.
When I think of how we handled winters growing up...as opposed to today. It’s quite remarkable.
When storms came, my mom would make potatoe soup with dumplings...so of course even today I associate that as a “comfort” in winter and still make during storms.
Some nights the wind would be so powerful the windows would shake...of course the back of our house faced an open farmers field, (even though we were in town), so the winds just howled through.
My control freak father owned his thermostat. We were cold in winter and hot in summer.
I own MY thermostat. It’s set at 76, year round. Twice a year, I switch it from heat to cool, and vice versa. I’m an adult, I pay my utility bills, I couldn’t care less who approves or doesn’t.
Even in middle of winter, I'll occasionally turn the heat off for a bit and open all the windows to flush the stale ale out of the house. Of course, I'll leave the house when this flushing is going on and I'll crank the heat back up when I get back. I'm not completely stupid about it. But I do think getting fresh, cold air into a house from time to time is healthy. I almost never come down with the cold.
As for my thermostat, it's never above 68 during the day and it goes down to 59 at night. I do usually get a fire going in the living room and it gets rather toasty in there. Otherwise, you pretty much need to have a sweater on in my house all winter and you need to get under some quilts at night.
Keeps my heating oil bill down as well.
Democrat build no fire. He wait ‘til Conservative cut wood, split wood, stack wood, gather tinder and light fire... then Democrat kill Conservative, sit by fire, eat Conservative food and lay with Conservative women, Kemosabe.
I set my thermostat before bed at 63...yeah that’s cold in Georgia buy up North you easily get used to it. During the daytime it’s set at 67 when I’m home.
You can easily acclimate to these temperatures to the point that when it’s set at 68 or above you’re too hot.
Naturally, you where a sweater or a robe. But when I visit my Mom, in her 90s the house is like sweat box.
Then there are those of us who exercise because we want to and don't need to be so cold that it becomes a necessity to generate body heat...
Nice!!!
I am the exact opposite. I don’t keep my thermostat too high during the winter, usually keep it between 65 and 68; for one thing it is the cost (gas heat) and for another, I don’t like it stifling and stuffy hot and like wearing oversized heavy comfy sweaters and heavy socks when it’s cold. Fortunately I currently live in a 2nd floor apartment so I get some residual heat from the downstairs neighbor.
But I can’t stand being cold. I can’t think straight when I’m shivering and my nose and fingers are numb.
I don’t really like air conditioning so much but living in an apartment with no cross ventilation, it’s a necessity.
But when I lived in my old house in Maryland, my 90+ year old house had lots of windows on all sides, it sat halfway up a big hill with a lot of trees in back providing late day shade. The first floor had 12 foot ceilings and the interior doors had transom windows and every room had a ceiling fan. The second floor would get hot during the day but I had a big window fans on both sides of the 2d floor of house that during the day, was set to exhaust the hot air out and bring the cooler air from the first floor in and at night it ran the opposite.
Unless the humidity became unbearable, I found it very comfortable not to run the air conditioner. Plus I loved all the fresh air coming in and sleep better with a fan running – the feel of the air and the white noise helps me sleep.
Sometimes when I am cleaning during the winter, even in my apartment, I turn off the heat for a few hours and open up the windows and the sliding glass door and run a big fan to circulate the air. But as soon as I’m done cleaning, I close everything up and turn the heat up to 70.
The beard-growing part could be a clue. Then again, with those middle eastern women you never know...
Well, that completely explains what has happened to National Review.
I think you mean cold baths. You will get sick, very quickly, with cold showers.
Yep, they really are preparing us for their neo-feudalism.
What was the temperature that ‘bammers was keeping the living quarters where he was? 80’s in the winter or something?
The Left loves to undermine!
I’m in Montana now ... almost two decades since I bought the land.
I’ll take the snow and Ice any day over traffic. Any day.
What I read was about cold showers. Supposedly they boost the body’s immune system, among other benefits.
It may be quackery...I’m in no hurry to try it. But if I get as sick as I was the last time I had the flu, I most likely will.
This feels like a propaganda piece. Turn down the thermostat - it is good for you and the planet!
“There’s scientific data that cold showers can be healthy. I was planning to try it out ghe next time I get a bad cold or flu.”
Yeah, what the hell......get it OVER with.
That word perhaps would have worked better.
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