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euphemia your parents having locked windows makes me nervous, what would happen in a fire?

Lord knows, but in my parents' view, at least they wouldn't get burgled again.

YADNBU. Windows open all year in our bedroom. It's taken 14 years but DH has come round to my way of thinking. We had to use the spare duvet last week which is warmer than ours and DH was too warm

Fresh air is good.

open window here as well, if i thik DH will complain because it is too cold outside i do it after he is asleep. Never wakes him up at the time or later that night.

Hate hot hotels rooms where the window only opens half an inch too.

My mil opens all the windows and doors. I find it a tad annoying, as it can get bloody freezing, and then I have to find a coat to wear. She used to do it at our house when we lived in the UK, she can't do it to us when she visits us in Oz, or she'll let in all the creepy crawlies <shudders>

Windows have to be open, anything else makes me feel bleh.

I must have the window open all night, even in freezing weather.

Otherwise the room smells like a skunk's armpit in the morning. (Because of DH, I hasten to add, not me, I'm a little flower)

He would rather it was warm, no matter how stuffy it gets.

However, I win.

Rhubarb I am having a panic attack on your behalf for now, for real. How in hell do you manage with non-opening windows? For me that is like being in a car underwater.

I am sure that made you feel loads better

Always have the window open - unless it is really stormy and the noise is keeping me awake. Hate being too hot in bed. Love being able to snuggle down with just the fresh air on my face.

Oh ho! - DH says 'It is because you MN lot don't understand our windows'. Natch! We are not talking little windows at the top, but full-pane windows iyswim.

I say it makes no difference.

YANBU - I dont care if its blowing a hooley, lashing it down, snowing, hailing - windows are always wide open .... I cannot abide stuffy, over heated houses.

Lots of weirdy fresh air brigade on this thread. In my view, we have spent millenia developing well-insulated housing and heating so that we do not have to suffer sleeping in freezing cold houses. Why you would want to is beyond me.

You people are crazy.

Heat your homes less if they feel too hot.

I sleep with my window open all night, i cant bare sleeping in a hot bedroom.

Cote DH was not allowed to have the heating on till end of the first week in Nov. He is very hard done by, and would like to be adopted by a more sympathetic wife.

Cote I can have my heating off for days but my bedroom is always hot, its not even south facing.

We don't have the radiator switched on in our bedroom either - so doubly chilled!

sometimes I open the window and sometimes I have it closed.There are no rules.

Tell Mr Peasant that we have the big windows open. We haven't got little windows.

We don't have the house very warm btw for those commenting. Our bills are quite low compared to average

I have to have the window open else I feel that I'm suffocating. Also have to sleep nearest to the window.

How can you tell another adult what they are allowed to do?

We don't use the heating and we still open the windows

You can never have too much money or too much fresh air imo.

Window open here to, bedroom lovely and chilly We both sleep naked as well - can't abide being hot and stuffy in bed. To the poster that hasn't opened their Windows since 2000, don't you roast in the summer?

Open them windows! Its so unhealthy breathing in that same shitty air all the time and the germs breed like crazy when its hot and stuffy!

I air my house for half an hour a day but keep them shut otherwise.

Our windows are massive and open outwards. We are saving up for window locks to lock tnem open but unattended, open, upstairs windows are an absolute no-no for us in a house with small children (and i consider us being fast asleep to constitute the windows being unattended)