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Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:25 pm  |
Hubby wants the thermostat kept at 73F (84F in the summer. But, that's another story). I am absolutely freeeeezing! We have a small gas space heater in the kitchen that I go and stand over when I can't take it anymore. Last night he turned it off 'cause he.....get this......doesn't "want the gas bill to go up."
I think the man is trying to slowly kill me, I swear!
Ari |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:52 pm |
 Ari, get some nice, thick,porridge colour thermals. A long sleeve vest and leggings. And keep them on ALL the time. Literally.
A little knitted hat worn in bed helps a lot too.
If that doesnt make him turn up the thermostat double fast, tell your husband about how back in the day, people would wrap themselves all around with brown paper, under their clothes, at the start of the season, and not take it off - AT ALL - till the spring came. And tell him this is a good way to make sure the gas bill doesnt go up.
Failing this, my thoughts would be turning to Brandy and hot water. 
brrrr. I sympathise. I'm like a cat by the fire all winter. |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:22 pm |
Hi Ari,
I'm afraid I'm not going to be of much help. I'm the one who is always turning down the thermostat around our house. 
I can't take the house heat higher than 72 degrees F ... any warmer and it will trigger a migraine.  During the day when I'm home and doing the dreaded housework, I keep the temperature at 69 F ... but if I'm doing a lot of sitting, I will turn it up a degree ... or put on a sweater.
I didn't used to be this way ... I used to feel the cold more than I do now that I'm 55 ... and have gone through "the change"
Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you ...
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:34 pm |
| Great idea, catski!! DH never complains to me about the thermostat because he knows if our apartment is warm he has a greater chance of seeing a silky nightgown. If the apartment is cold, the sexy sleepwear gets put away until Spring! |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:40 pm |
| hpjrt wrote: |
Hi Ari,
I'm afraid I'm not going to be of much help. I'm the one who is always turning down the thermostat around our house.
I can't take the house heat higher than 72 degrees F ... any warmer and it will trigger a migraine. During the day when I'm home and doing the dreaded housework, I keep the temperature at 69 F ... but if I'm doing a lot of sitting, I will turn it up a degree ... or put on a sweater.
I didn't used to be this way ... I used to feel the cold more than I do now that I'm 55 ... and have gone through "the change"
Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you ...
Mary |
Dahling, I'm a tad older and I cannot TAKE the cold. I'm always cold except when I'm outside in the summer.
catski & liz, hubby wouldn't care if I wore a sweatsuit to bed. He'd think I'm being practical. HE finds practical sexy.  |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:59 pm |
| Oh, how I can relate to this topic! Except I have the same issue Mary has. I'm the one turning down the thermostat. I've always liked to sleep in a cold room, but I swear DH could sleep in sauna. So he turns it up to 75 or higher, and then I come behind him and turn it down to 70 (I'd rather have it at 65 at night, but that starts too many arguments) and crack my bedroom window a bit, except on nights like last night - wind was blowing hard & it got down to 15. I've preferred the cold my whole life (I HATE to sweat!) - even more so now that I have night sweats sometimes, and hot flashes during the day occassionally. |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:08 pm |
| In the winter our thermostat is set at 68 degrees. Been doing this since President Jimmy Carter urged all Americans to turn down the heat due to the oil shortage crisis in the late 70's. I wonder if this is why we rarely get sick - it's too cold for germs to live here. |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:32 pm |
My boyfriend won't let me touch the thermostat any longer and he's right! I have no "middle ground" ... I'm always putting it up or down to the extreme. If I'm cold, I'll crank it way up and then it will get too hot and vice versa. I have no restraint! Whereas he always seem to set it just right.  |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:22 pm |
I can't stand being in a room where you can feel a chill, but I also can't stand sleeping in a room that's too hot, because I'll wake up with stuffed sinuses and a headache.
I personally throw off A LOT of heat, my hands and feet are always hot to the touch. On super cold nights, if my guy is staying over, he likes me to get in bed first - he says its like back in the "olden days" when people would put hot rocks in bed to warm it up (first of all, I don't know if this was actually done, and second, he'd never know what the "olden days" were like anyhow! Sheesh!  ).
Aunt Ari, I asked if I could bring my cats when I move in. You might want to reconsider, even if the dog might try to eat them. They are SIMPLY AMAZING at keeping you warm during the night! I gauge how low the temperature gets by how many cats I have crammed into my armpits when I wake up in the morning - one cat under each armpit means it was a very cold night!   |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:59 pm |
| MermaidGirl wrote: |
| Aunt Ari, I asked if I could bring my cats when I move in. You might want to reconsider, even if the dog might try to eat them. They are SIMPLY AMAZING at keeping you warm during the night! I gauge how low the temperature gets by how many cats I have crammed into my armpits when I wake up in the morning - one cat under each armpit means it was a very cold night! |
mmmmm...wonder if I could ship the dogs off somewhere for the winter. Let me think about this a little more...... |
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:25 pm |
| Arielle wrote: |
| ... mmmmm...wonder if I could ship the dogs off somewhere for the winter. Let me think about this a little more...... |
Just THINK how ticked off they'd be when they come home in Spring time and smell CAT everywhere! They may never speak to you again! |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:43 am |
Hi MermaidGirl,
Actually your boyfriend is almost right ... except it was usually hot bricks. They would put the bricks next to the fire ... and then wrap it in a "piece of flannel" and put it in the bed. [I guess the hot water bottle hadn't been invented yet ... or hot water was too precious to waste on a bottle in the bed! ]
There was also, in the homes of the very rich, things called "bed warmers" ... which was a large-ish "flip top" brass pan with a very long wooden handle.
Hot coals would be put into the pan, the lid [which had holes or slits in it] would be left down ... and the pan would be passed between the sheets until those sheets were warmed. Servants did this ... naturally.
Of course, in those days, there was no such thing as central heating ... nor did the warmth from the fire always heat the entire room! Chances are, there were only scatter mats on the floor ... if that ... and the insulation of the house was poor ... at best!
So ... as you say ... your boyfriend wouldn't really know the "olden days" ... since he was born after all those inadequacies had been rectified!
Mary |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:56 am |
At my parents house they keep the heat set at 62. Yes, that's in the winter. So, I've really become used to cold temperatures. I've also quite a collection of big sweaters, sweatshirts, and fleeces. I don't like it higher than 70 degrees.
My boyfriend jokes I'm coldblooded (or the new one, Eskimo) but he's probably not wrong. WHenever I go to the doctor I'm always below 98.6! |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:13 am |
| Arielle wrote: |
Dahling, I'm a tad older and I cannot TAKE the cold. I'm always cold except when I'm outside in the summer.
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Same for me too! I am much younger but I can not take the cold either. My hands and feet are always too cold.  |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:13 am |
| tidieu wrote: |
| Arielle wrote: |
Dahling, I'm a tad older and I cannot TAKE the cold. I'm always cold except when I'm outside in the summer.
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Same for me too! I am much younger but I can not take the cold either. My hands and feet are always too cold. |
the same for me too. the man always feel heater than the woman. |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:58 pm |
| well, maybe you should give him more of cold drink so he will feel the chill and you take more of the warm drink.... |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:57 pm |
| fishzebby wrote: |
| well, maybe you should give him more of cold drink so he will feel the chill and you take more of the warm drink.... |
Oh, he already feels the "chill". |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:42 pm |
We might we the weird ones here. We normally don't turn on the heat unless it gets in the low 60's or lower in the house. We normally use the electric blanket in the family room when we are watching tv or surfing on the internet. We do turn off the heat at night when we sleep.
We know if it is a cold night when the cat wanted to be under the covers |
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:00 pm |
| mtview wrote: |
We might we the weird ones here. We normally don't turn on the heat unless it gets in the low 60's or lower in the house. We normally use the electric blanket in the family room when we are watching tv or surfing on the internet. We do turn off the heat at night when we sleep.
We know if it is a cold night when the cat wanted to be under the covers |
Same at my house! When the cat is under the covers with me, I know it's time to turn up the heat a bit. |
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:44 am |
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| Same at my house! When the cat is under the covers with me, I know it's time to turn up the heat a bit. |
My Devon Rex feels the cold more than I do, she's the only cat I know that happily sits in front of a fan heater! |
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:06 pm |
| My bf and I fight about this too. Right now the thermostat is set at 64 and it is about 62 in the living room. So I wear pants and slipper socks and a thick robe and sit under a comforter when watching tv. And in the summer (we live in texas!) it's set at 86. He just can't stand to spend money on the electric bill. But there are plenty of other things he'll waste it on! very frustrating! |
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