Attn: homeowners in colder climatesFollow

The question with a thousand answers !

my guess : Just take what you need each morning , and shove the rest back inside the chicken.

Thanks!

I'm all for the sweater option actually, but things are a little different when you don't want to wake up to a Hannah Popscicle on a cold morning.

Nexa

You could always go REALLY old school and heat a brick up and leave it at the foot of the bed!

Or buy one of those timers for your heat. Set temp/time so heat is low while you are sleeping or at work but goes up a couple degrees before you wake or get home. Cuts the bills and makes sure you aren't walking on ice cold floors when you wake up.

Must be the red hair.

hahahaha...I adore you. If I closed up two thirds of my house, I'd have a bathroom left I think.

Nexa

Not when I was in college, but now, yes.

Mostly I need to make the house warmer for Hannah. I have no attic, it's a cape, I have a dirt floor unfinished basement, so that's not living space so much (and also only accessable from the outside. For actual rooms, I have a eat-in kitchen, living room, laundry room, bathroom, and an office on the first floor, and then the two bedrooms on the second floor. No real space that can be closed off.

Nexa

haha..well that's peanuts compared to the student loans...can I do that one instead?

Nexa

Good grief, who doesn't know that chickens lay one egg each every day of their lives?

I saw a segment once about police officers caring for their dogs, and when they fed them, they cracked a raw egg into the bowl to go with their other food.

Perhaps you could feed eggs to the dogs/puppies, BT?

I would really look into ceiling insulation. It cost me $200 to put woollen insulation into my roof. It comes treated with chemicals to keep the insects out of it. Perhaps you can afford fibreglss, or if you are feeling poor, maybe you can buy one or two bats of ceiling insulation a year and put it up there yourself progressively.

Don't underestimate the power of a hot-water bottle, wrapped in a small towel for safety for Hannah. Having a toasty warm bed at the start of the night can make a cold morning much more tolerable, because you haven't cooled down as much overnight.

As a small child, I remember well that having some really thick fluffy soft pajamas made a huge difference to getting up into a cold house, compared with wearing thin cotton pajamas. Being given big thick warm slippers and a woollen dressing gown were really important to me too.

Woolen clothing and woolen stockings turned cold weather from a misery to a pleasure. I would say "I'm cold" and Mum would tell me to go put on woolen socks and a woolen jumper, and I would whinge and complain because I didn't want to make the effort, I just wanted the heater on. And I would go reluctantly put on the warm woolies, and sit back down and be snug and warm and happy in two minutes.

I can't imagine the leaves would do anything besides look funny.

Definitely check all the windows for drafts and use weather stripping in places where there is none. Also check lighting fixtures on the wall and ceiling for drafts, they can be sealed up easily.


When I was in College, I lived in a studio apartment. The landlord was your typical "slumlord" and didn't care much about the property. There was no thermostat in my apartment, it was in my neighbors apartment. Most of the winters I heated the place with my electric oven. Ghetto as hell, yes, but I didn't pay the electric and it worked very well. I don't recommend it, its extremely dangerous especially with a toddler.

I pay over time and have the price capped. I pay the capped price or the going rate, whichever is cheaper.

Nexa