NEW GUIDE UP 🥶 (subtitle: please please please be careful if you use a space heater, and for the love of god have a functioning carbon monoxide alarm if you have to use your stove for heat)
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Hot water bottles are so deeply underrated. You can also put a skillet dutch/oven (dense cast iron) into the oven to heat, then wrap it in a towel and stick it (and you) under blankets. Down duvets especially.
Do you have an English grand/parent who was issued a ration book? They know this stuff.
…between the passive ceramic humidifiers and this, I sound like I was born in Dickensian England, but it’s the influence of a ration-book relative.
Also wear 100% wool if you have it.
Thrift stores have good wool sweaters. And drink tea. Cosplay as an English peasant and you’re halfway there.
Oh also! Electric blankets! You don’t even need the full-sized ones, just get the smaller heating pad ones meant for sore muscles. Put it across your core and cover up with actual blankets and you get very toasty.
Great advice.
I’d add that using any natural gas appliance that doesn’t have a dedicated vent pipe (which means stoves, gas logs, etc) requires having a carbon monoxide detector to avoid exposure to dangerous levels.
Even “self-venting” appliances produce CO.
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Do you have an English grand/parent who was issued a ration book? They know this stuff.
Also wear 100% wool if you have it.
Thrift stores have good wool sweaters. And drink tea. Cosplay as an English peasant and you’re halfway there.
I’d add that using any natural gas appliance that doesn’t have a dedicated vent pipe (which means stoves, gas logs, etc) requires having a carbon monoxide detector to avoid exposure to dangerous levels.
Even “self-venting” appliances produce CO.