Tips for keeping warm!

Heineken Helen

So what are your daily things you do to keep warm? I was surprised the other day at work... I said that I normally put my clothes on the radiator in the spare room the night before so that they're lovely and warm... and my gloves and scarf... it's soooooooooo luxurious then when I put it on the next morning. My workmates had never thought ofo it and now they're all doing it :shock: but they had some pretty simple ones too that I'd never thought of. If you have a shower in a bath, as soon as the water is hot, put the plug in so it keeps your feet extra warm.

Brisk.

Heineken Helen wrote:

So what are your daily things you do to keep warm? I was surprised the other day at work... I said that I normally put my clothes on the radiator in the spare room the night before so that they're lovely and warm... and my gloves and scarf... it's soooooooooo luxurious then when I put it on the next morning. My workmates had never thought ofo it and now they're all doing it :shock: but they had some pretty simple ones too that I'd never thought of. If you have a shower in a bath, as soon as the water is hot, put the plug in so it keeps your feet extra warm.

i used to do that with my school clothes when i had to get up at like 8am everyday.

i just make sure i wear lots of layers, i believe thats one thing i remember from skiing, i should maybe even put on my skiing thermals.

i started wearing a scarf this winter and it helps a bit but i dont understand my gloves, the ends of them are just like cold pockets :S they are £10 John Lewis ones as well!

nothing beats a nice long hot shower too!

my ears tend to get painfully cold so i may get a hat but i think it would just make me look very stupid also how do you keep your nose warm!?

Heineken Helen

Brisk. wrote:

i used to do that with my school clothes when i had to get up at like 8am everyday.

i just make sure i wear lots of layers, i believe thats one thing i remember from skiing, i should maybe even put on my skiing thermals.

i started wearing a scarf this winter and it helps a bit but i dont understand my gloves, the ends of them are just like cold pockets :S they are £10 John Lewis ones as well!

nothing beats a nice long hot shower too!

my ears tend to get painfully cold so i may get a hat but i think it would just make me look very stupid also how do you keep your nose warm!?

Yeh, layers are great, yesterday I had my coat, a big cardigan, a jumper and a vest top I had jeans, a pair of tights and two pairs of socks... I could barely even walk but I was soooooooo toastie lol . I've been wearing so many layers, my gloves are also doing a sorry job of keeping up another tip is to run your hands under warm water, dry them quickly and put them in the gloves. I find equally in the summer, running your hands and wrists under cold water really brings the body temperature down.

Lol, I haven't given into the hat thing either... I have one and I like it but I wasn't brought up with hats so I just feel silly but I put my hood up on really cold mornings.

Claireack

I definately wear hats in the winter. I have quite a few little knitted ones with crochet flowers on I really like and wear them a lot. It's so cold in my house I've even resorted to wearing them around the house.

The other thing that's nice to do is put your shoes/boots under the radiator, lovely and toasty when you put them on to go out.

The thermometer in our living room is currently reading 11 degrees, it's gone up slightly was 9 before. :thumbdown:

dcfaithful

I ride the bus to work usually everyday...seldomly I'll drive my car, but I mostly save that for school days. Anyways, right now in Utah it is unbelievably cold at times...18 degrees right now and it's 8:00 a.m. I usually wear a beanie, layer my torso with my PJ hoodie and then my north face jacket. I recently got some of those gloves that have the hole on the outside that you blow into and it heats up the entire inside of the glove...very nice...but sometimes my hands get too warm and sweat and then they just get even more cold. :x

Heineken Helen

Claireack wrote:

I definately wear hats in the winter. I have quite a few little knitted ones with crochet flowers on I really like and wear them a lot. It's so cold in my house I've even resorted to wearing them around the house.

The other thing that's nice to do is put your shoes/boots under the radiator, lovely and toasty when you put them on to go out.

The thermometer in our living room is currently reading 11 degrees, it's gone up slightly was 9 before. :thumbdown:

:shock: my god, you need to do something about that... have you enough duvets and stuff? Some candles can bring the temperature up a bit and also make it psychologically warmer.

Never thought of the shoes/boots under the radiator, sounds lovely.

Heineken Helen

dcfaithful wrote:

I ride the bus to work usually everyday...seldomly I'll drive my car, but I mostly save that for school days. Anyways, right now in Utah it is unbelievably cold at times...18 degrees right now and it's 8:00 a.m. I usually wear a beanie, layer my torso with my PJ hoodie and then my north face jacket. I recently got some of those gloves that have the hole on the outside that you blow into and it heats up the entire inside of the glove...very nice...but sometimes my hands get too warm and sweat and then they just get even more cold. :x

don't know those gloves but they sound like a great idea.

Claireack

Heineken Helen wrote:

my god, you need to do something about that... have you enough duvets and stuff? Some candles can bring the temperature up a bit and also make it psychologically warmer

We're trying to save energy/money, heating will go on in about an hour - Hurrah!! If it get's too bad I hide on the sofa under a nice fleecy blanket. But I think I need some fingerless gloves for when I'm on the computer

Oh another nice thing for when it's really cold are those handwarmers that you can microwave then put them in your gloves before you go out.

Brisk.

We have the heating on full and pretty much all day except i turn it off when we go to bed. Our sudent house has worst insulation ever, only type of insulation is single panel glass in a crappy wooden frame so areas like kitchen and hallway are freezing. Luckily the rooms arn't so bad.

Also Helen, good tip for keeping warm is BED! My bed is soooooo dam nice and cosy! I dont even need to wear socks sometimes but i regret it in the morning though.

I need to try out what i look like in a beanie! :oops:

Heineken Helen

Claireack wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

my god, you need to do something about that... have you enough duvets and stuff? Some candles can bring the temperature up a bit and also make it psychologically warmer

We're trying to save energy/money, heating will go on in about an hour - Hurrah!! If it get's too bad I hide on the sofa under a nice fleecy blanket. But I think I need some fingerless gloves for when I'm on the computer

Oh another nice thing for when it's really cold are those handwarmers that you can microwave then put them in your gloves before you go out.

hmm... I must try those handwarmers. Tbh, I think heating is unnecessary if you can simply wrap up inside and a good idea... I'd rather put another layer on than put the heating on. But we've generally had a heater on in the sitting room :oops:

Brisk, one thing that worries me, I generally don't like wearing stuff in bed.. but ya think, the covers can fall off in the middle of the night and the temperature can fall to god knows what while you're fast asleep and unaware and you freeze in your sleep :shock: so yep, PJ's for me :?

Brisk.

Heineken Helen wrote:

Claireack wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

my god, you need to do something about that... have you enough duvets and stuff? Some candles can bring the temperature up a bit and also make it psychologically warmer

We're trying to save energy/money, heating will go on in about an hour - Hurrah!! If it get's too bad I hide on the sofa under a nice fleecy blanket. But I think I need some fingerless gloves for when I'm on the computer

Oh another nice thing for when it's really cold are those handwarmers that you can microwave then put them in your gloves before you go out.

hmm... I must try those handwarmers. Tbh, I think heating is unnecessary if you can simply wrap up inside and a good idea... I'd rather put another layer on than put the heating on. But we've generally had a heater on in the sitting room :oops:

Brisk, one thing that worries me, I generally don't like wearing stuff in bed.. but ya think, the covers can fall off in the middle of the night and the temperature can fall to god knows what while you're fast asleep and unaware and you freeze in your sleep :shock: so yep, PJ's for me :?

Yeah im about to bleed all he radiators just to make sure they are working good too. Well i'm living with 5 other people and 2 of them have no sense and walk about in t-shirts all day so they turn it on :(

You sleep naked normally!?

I got a 3/4 double bed for myself so no chances of anything falling off, though i think the majority of the time when i have my blanket as well its on the opposite site of the bed in the morning. But yeah socks is a must i think, especially if we turn off heating at night as it just gets freezing and then i cant get out of bed. But when term starts i'll start settings for heating to come on at 8am for a bit so i can at least go to my lectures.

Heineken Helen

Brisk. wrote:

Yeah im about to bleed all he radiators just to make sure they are working good too. Well i'm living with 5 other people and 2 of them have no sense and walk about in t-shirts all day so they turn it on :(

You sleep naked normally!?

I got a 3/4 double bed for myself so no chances of anything falling off, though i think the majority of the time when i have my blanket as well its on the opposite site of the bed in the morning. But yeah socks is a must i think, especially if we turn off heating at night as it just gets freezing and then i cant get out of bed. But when term starts i'll start settings for heating to come on at 8am for a bit so i can at least go to my lectures.

Yeh, I hate wearing anything in bed... if there's one tiny little crease under me, I have to toss and turn for ages to get comfy and it drives me nuts :oops: I just feel restricted in PJ's or anything.

Lol, well I share a bed so I'm thinking of him rolling over and bringing the duvet with him completely innocently and then waking up in the morning and I'm frozen :shock: perhaps I overthink things a little

We have the heating set for about 6am or an hour... but in the current weather, we've started turning on the heater in the bedroom at that time (when the alarms start to go off) so when I get up at 6.30 it's really easy to get out of bed cos it's so cosy... not so easy to leave the room though :oops:

Brisk.

Heineken Helen wrote:

Brisk. wrote:

Yeah im about to bleed all he radiators just to make sure they are working good too. Well i'm living with 5 other people and 2 of them have no sense and walk about in t-shirts all day so they turn it on :(

You sleep naked normally!?

I got a 3/4 double bed for myself so no chances of anything falling off, though i think the majority of the time when i have my blanket as well its on the opposite site of the bed in the morning. But yeah socks is a must i think, especially if we turn off heating at night as it just gets freezing and then i cant get out of bed. But when term starts i'll start settings for heating to come on at 8am for a bit so i can at least go to my lectures.

Yeh, I hate wearing anything in bed... if there's one tiny little crease under me, I have to toss and turn for ages to get comfy and it drives me nuts :oops: I just feel restricted in PJ's or anything.

Lol, well I share a bed so I'm thinking of him rolling over and bringing the duvet with him completely innocently and then waking up in the morning and I'm frozen :shock: perhaps I overthink things a little

We have the heating set for about 6am or an hour... but in the current weather, we've started turning on the heater in the bedroom at that time (when the alarms start to go off) so when I get up at 6.30 it's really easy to get out of bed cos it's so cosy... not so easy to leave the room though :oops:

sleeping naked would just be too weird imo!

ah yeah i have that experience before, she did it like several times so i had to keep waking her up which wasn't the bes idea.

2 of my flatmates have bought those heaters you plug in the wall, i think they drain the hell out of your electricity and so are really expensive? dont know if thats true.

dcfaithful

Brisk. wrote:

sleeping naked would just be too weird imo!

So comfortable.

Heineken Helen

Brisk. wrote:

sleeping naked would just be too weird imo!

ah yeah i have that experience before, she did it like several times so i had to keep waking her up which wasn't the bes idea.

2 of my flatmates have bought those heaters you plug in the wall, i think they drain the hell out of your electricity and so are really expensive? dont know if thats true.

Yeh, I'm not lookin forward to the bill :oops: and have no idea how much it will be. We have it on as little and as low as possible... but in these extreme temps that's still a lot. Our central heating has to be on for hours to actually warm up the house these days :oops:

Heineken Helen

dcfaithful wrote:

Brisk. wrote:

sleeping naked would just be too weird imo!

So comfortable.

Agreed... you can move around and not worry about your pj's not moving with you and getting tangled up and all creased and annoying. It's quite a bit of freedom really

Jennytree

I have a scarf with a hood like this. It's the cosiest thing EVER! I found it in a bargain basket in A-Wear years ago but it has done the job since. It has all the warmth of a hat, scarf and I wrap it around the front of my face too to keep my cheeks cosy. I usually don't like wearing hats cos my head starts to sweat and my hair gets all icky (shallow I know :roll: ), but if my head gets too warm in this, I can just push it back a little and let my head breathe.

A proper coat always helps too!

Remember to keep yer skin in check too - chapped skin not only feels colder but mucho pain too. Invest in some proper hand cream, moisturiser and lip balm (Lush stuff all the way for me).

Brisk.

Jennytree wrote:

I have a scarf with a hood like this. It's the cosiest thing EVER! I found it in a bargain basket in A-Wear years ago but it has done the job since. It has all the warmth of a hat, scarf and I wrap it around the front of my face too to keep my cheeks cosy. I usually don't like wearing hats cos my head starts to sweat and my hair gets all icky (shallow I know :roll: ), but if my head gets too warm in this, I can just push it back a little and let my head breathe.

A proper coat always helps too!

Remember to keep yer skin in check too - chapped skin not only feels colder but mucho pain too. Invest in some proper hand cream, moisturiser and lip balm (Lush stuff all the way for me).

that looks cool!

i like to wear my hood up with my hoodies but yes it totally ruins my hair!

yeah i always make sure i got my carmex on before i go out!

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

I have a scarf with a hood like this. It's the cosiest thing EVER! I found it in a bargain basket in A-Wear years ago but it has done the job since. It has all the warmth of a hat, scarf and I wrap it around the front of my face too to keep my cheeks cosy. I usually don't like wearing hats cos my head starts to sweat and my hair gets all icky (shallow I know :roll: ), but if my head gets too warm in this, I can just push it back a little and let my head breathe.

A proper coat always helps too!

Remember to keep yer skin in check too - chapped skin not only feels colder but mucho pain too. Invest in some proper hand cream, moisturiser and lip balm (Lush stuff all the way for me).

I want one of those :oops: . Same reason here for not being a big hat person

I have a great coat I bought in next years ago... so cosy and padded.

My skin tends to like the cold weather like this though... I've found myself feeling my cheeks most days and thinking 'oooooohhh' I'm just a cold weather person I think... I loves it

Jennytree

I can't sleep well when it's cold, so I had two heaters on in my room last night and I slept for 12 hours.

When I move from a warm part to cold part of the bed I wake up, so electric blanket helps that too. Tbh, life is too short to be fuckin' freezing - I had enough of cold times when in college. I wear big fluffy socks too, but I always kick them off during the night. If it's REALLY bad I'll wear my cosy dressing gown thing too.

I also keep an oil-filled heater on half way during the weekday night so that I can wake up in the morning. Sometimes I have to be up before 7 and the heating doesn't start till then and there is nothing worse than getting out of a warm bed into a cold room and I often find myself sleeping in cos of procrastination. The worst part is literally the first five minutes after getting out of bed. After I'm dressed I'm grand.

I still love this weather too - I HATE January with a passion, and usually find it horribly depressing. I just can't see all the grey now under the snow and it's awesome! The crunchy sound of walking on snow is awesome too especially when wearing boots and ye know that yer feet aren't gonna get wet or cold

i_lov_it

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol :P

Claireack

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol

Can you send us tickets please?

dottles

fluffy socks, gotta be loving the fluffy socks!
I've also been doing the layering thing, girls in the office thought I was mad with the tights underneath trousers layer so glad others are doing it too.

I have a big heavy quilt on my bed and brushed cotton bottom sheet, old fashioned but lovely and warm.
Snuggly blanket on the sofa as well.
My friends have bought slankets - http://www.theslanket.com/

I'm not a hat lover, I look awful in them and have small hands so end up looking daft in adult gloves with only half the fingers filled (I now have fingerless ones with a mitten bit that can be pulled over, or 'youths' ski gloves!). Got a Columbia ski jacket that I've had for a few years but it is soo warm.

I love PJs, I have loads of pairs and I'd wear them all day if I could, love, love love 'em.

I am a 'cold' person too, I love the chill in the air and the colours of the countryside, sea and rivers on the way to work are amazing with a sort of golden glow.

Brisk.

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol :P

you people know what snow is?

dottles

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol :P

My friend is living there at the minute, when I spoke to him ove Xmas it was something daft like 36 degrees. He was saying it was so hot he was avoiding doing anything outside.

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

I can't sleep well when it's cold, so I had two heaters on in my room last night and I slept for 12 hours.

When I move from a warm part to cold part of the bed I wake up, so electric blanket helps that too. Tbh, life is too short to be fuckin' freezing - I had enough of cold times when in college. I wear big fluffy socks too, but I always kick them off during the night. If it's REALLY bad I'll wear my cosy dressing gown thing too.

I also keep an oil-filled heater on half way during the weekday night so that I can wake up in the morning. Sometimes I have to be up before 7 and the heating doesn't start till then and there is nothing worse than getting out of a warm bed into a cold room and I often find myself sleeping in cos of procrastination. The worst part is literally the first five minutes after getting out of bed. After I'm dressed I'm grand.

I still love this weather too - I HATE January with a passion, and usually find it horribly depressing. I just can't see all the grey now under the snow and it's awesome! The crunchy sound of walking on snow is awesome too especially when wearing boots and ye know that yer feet aren't gonna get wet or cold

Awww... I can't sleep in hot weather :oops: or one evening I fell asleep on the couch with the heater on and woke up a couple of hours later sweating and in a seriously foul mood . I agree with there being nothing worse than getting up to a cold room too... I'm also find after I'm dressed but til then I walk around the house being grumpy

At least this HAS taken some of the monotony out of January indeed most people do love it. Even Tuesday (when I Ieft work at 11) a major part of me was thinking how pretty and exciting it was... and a tiny part was saying to myself 'but how the fuck am I gonna make it home?', the other part just kept replying 'fuck it, I don't care, do you? Look at how pretty it is' . This conversation went on for half an hour in my head til people started leaving and then I got to go

i_lov_it

Brisk. wrote:

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol :P

you people know what snow is?

Well...I've never seen Snow!...lol

Brisk.

i_lov_it wrote:

Brisk. wrote:

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol :P

you people know what snow is?

Well...I've never seen Snow!...lol

always found that funny, its kinda bizzare over here we are lucky i guess if we even get to wake up one morning and its just beautiful pure white everywhere.. but after 3/4 weeks of it im fucking sick of it now haha sub zero temps arn't cool.

Heineken Helen

dottles wrote:

fluffy socks, gotta be loving the fluffy socks!
I've also been doing the layering thing, girls in the office thought I was mad with the tights underneath trousers layer so glad others are doing it too.

I have a big heavy quilt on my bed and brushed cotton bottom sheet, old fashioned but lovely and warm.
Snuggly blanket on the sofa as well.
My friends have bought slankets - http://www.theslanket.com/

I'm not a hat lover, I look awful in them and have small hands so end up looking daft in adult gloves with only half the fingers filled (I now have fingerless ones with a mitten bit that can be pulled over, or 'youths' ski gloves!). Got a Columbia ski jacket that I've had for a few years but it is soo warm.

I love PJs, I have loads of pairs and I'd wear them all day if I could, love, love love 'em.

I am a 'cold' person too, I love the chill in the air and the colours of the countryside, sea and rivers on the way to work are amazing with a sort of golden glow.

I thought everyone did the tights under the jeans thing :shock: even the weather lady the other day said people shouldn't go out without them hahahaha... my hands look silly in gloves too... my boyfriend keeps making fun of me cos it's like I got no little finger at all

We were talking about the slanket's before christmas... I really want one of those too.

i_lov_it

Claireack wrote:

i_lov_it wrote:

Come to PERTH that's a Good TIP!...Warm here! lol

Can you send us tickets please?

Gladly...After I WIN Lotto!!! lol... :P

chime

Our boiler was broken from Monday to Friday :shock: we had a few electric heaters but were also turning the grill on in the kitchen and leaving it open :P

Primark do £2 fleece blankets that are great for an extra layer in bed or curling up on the sofa.

With gloves layers work as well. Buying gloves with more than one layer helps. I had Thinsulate ones ... they had a fleece layer inside the wool layer.

Ed keeping your nose warm ... when buying a scarf get a long and WIDE one then when you wrap it around you can pull it up over your nose. If you don't want to walk around like that you can just pull it up occasionally and a few breaths inside the scarf will warm you up.

... and Helen you know I like to rock a hat

I have been wearing fluffy socks with my wellies but can't do socks in bed.