That’s terrible. Glad we have our fireplace insert and plenty of wood. If we had to we could sleep in front of it and be plenty warm.
You don’t have a sterno stove? You could have as much coffee, soup or whatever when ever you need it. Just takes a few minutes to get the water hot enough.
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If it was me I would set up the tent in the living room that will keep ya 10 to 15 degrees warmer. Short of that drape blankets over the table to the floor with blankets and sleeping bags on the floor. It’s amazing how warm that will stay. Not even mentioning the amount of coziness that can be achieved with my wife sharing the under the table fort with me.
:: the under the table fort ::
A survival skill passed down through generations of Upper Great Lakes families.
Icy cold and snow have no harbor under the table.
Another trick which I still see in use today is piling existing snow against the wind-ward side of the house in preparation for the next storm.
It insulates rather well...from the outside.
My wife being from Japan we have a Kotatsu. It’s a small table with a heating bulb mounted underneath the frame. You place a thick quilt or blanket over the frame and then put the table top on top of that. We usually end up keeping it off when more then one of us are sitting there because it becomes so toasty underneath.
We only have a small one now because the girls are off. When they were younger I took an old living room table to make a frame and mounted a heater under that then used an old kitchen table for the top. We’d all sit in the living room (no chairs just had blankets and futons on the floor to lounge on) with Tv or Movie playing, room enough for homework, computers, books, crafts. I was bummed when the wife downsized but I have secret plans to rebuild :)
Since the fireplace with the insert keep the living room at 80 degrees or more, I don’t think a tent is needed if we decided to sleep there.
And the bedrooms are cooler, which is the way we like it for sleeping.
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