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One leg in one leg out is a sound strategy to cool down in bed?

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Mouldyfoodhelp · 06/06/2024 18:09

You get into bed you're hot, you take the cover off you're cold. Natural solution half in half out right?

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chattyness · 07/06/2024 08:26

Mouldyfoodhelp · 07/06/2024 00:17

Now that's bed time blasphemy

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I have to, because if I don't the sole of my foot and then that horrible skin soreness radiates right round my whole body and lasts for a few days, it's really vile even my hair hurts, stopped happening after I put wee socks on☺️

saltinesandcoffeecups · 07/06/2024 00:23

My inner thermometer has been broken my entire life so I think I have this down to science.

Winter:
Start with a heating pad on my feet so they are toasty and warm
Add a cat or two
kick one foot out of the covers when I get hot
kick 2 feet out when one doesn’t get the job done
swear and roll several cats off of me hrmphh roll over and flip all the covers off
sigh sweet relief
get a bit chilly pull sheet over me (we do top sheets were I live)
wait awhile… get chilly pull comforter (duvet equivalent) over me
have one or two cats come back to lay on random body parts
feel just a bit chillier and pull the last blanket over me and cats

Now that is if I haven’t said eff it and gotten up to walk outside at midnight in -23 weather to reset my borked thermometer.

Summer:
Is largely the same with less blankets and no heating pad and sticking my head in the freezer because outside is hot.

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Mouldyfoodhelp · 07/06/2024 00:17

chattyness · 06/06/2024 22:54

One foot out but have to have a sock on

Now that's bed time blasphemy

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bluesatin · 06/06/2024 23:19

I loathe duvets, I wake up constantly in the night being too hot or cold. At home I have traditional sheets and blankets and sleep soundly all night. Also there isn't the tussle over a double duvet if you are sharing a bed. Sheets and blankets don't wander because they are tucked in.

Sahara123 · 06/06/2024 22:55

I do this! Works a treat.

VestaTilley · 06/06/2024 22:55

I do this! One foot out and above the covers. Both feet if I’m really hot. Highly recommend it.

chattyness · 06/06/2024 22:54

One foot out but have to have a sock on

ProvincialLady2024 · 06/06/2024 22:51

YANBU

It's absolutely the right thing to do.

Also, if afraid of ghosts - cover entire self with duvet and they disappear.

Bluevelvetsofa · 06/06/2024 22:37

I haven’t yet discarded bed socks it’s so cold here.

Isitisit · 06/06/2024 22:33

Feet out is the only way!

Tinks15 · 06/06/2024 22:30

Yes always do this & I always have to have a cold pillow

RaininSummer · 06/06/2024 22:30

Once you get menopausal, the actual temperature is pretty irrelevant. Legs out legs in, duvet on, duvet off, flip flop from cool side to cool side and cooling pillow mat thing is my method.

Sev3nWonders · 06/06/2024 22:30

This is my method too but I have Raynauds so have to time it just right or my feet end up too cold and I have to start the Hokey Cokey all over again even in the summer 🕺

I never thought about the monsters until now tbh and as I lay here I’m nervous of a claw or finger creeping up over the bottom of the bed grabbing my toes 😱 thanks for that @sparepantsandtoothbrush !!

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 06/06/2024 22:26

How hot is it over there, that you're having this conversation? I'm forecast 6 degrees tonight!

Snappers3 · 06/06/2024 22:25

Feet peeking out does a lovely cooling job here.

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 06/06/2024 22:23

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 06/06/2024 18:17

But what about the monsters under the bed? They only grab what isn't under the duvet!

I was gunna say!!

sarahc336 · 06/06/2024 22:21

My preferred method for hot nights too 😁

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 06/06/2024 22:20

Not when you have a cat!

Roryhon · 06/06/2024 22:18

The best way is to simply push your partner completely out of the bed, then you can roll from the cool side to the hot side whenever it suits.

SauvignonBlonk · 06/06/2024 22:14

I’m a two duvets and pyjamas during the summer person, extra blankets in the winter person. Too hot doesn’t apply.
I feel left out :-)

justasking111 · 06/06/2024 22:12

I push the duvet aside put a throw over me with my feet and lower legs sticking out, cool down very quickly. Then one leg under duvet. I wake up in the morning covered up and can't recall when I did that ever

BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 06/06/2024 22:08

Ponderingwindow · 06/06/2024 18:56

It cools a person down, but I can’t actually sleep that way. I need weight on my entire body evenly distributed

this is why I have cooling sheets, an open weave cooling weighted blanket, cooling pajamas, and a small fan that blows directly on me while I sleep.

OMG, you have it all totally sorted!

Onelifeonly · 06/06/2024 21:58

Yes I do that but a bit later I get cold again so cover up. Sometimes cycle through that a few times in one night......

WoollyRosebud · 06/06/2024 21:57

buffyslayer · 06/06/2024 19:09

Cat agrees one leg is best

Legs or any other bare flesh peeping out from under the bedclothes are an invitation to my cats to attack it. I don't need monsters under the bed with them around

BuggeryBumFlaps · 06/06/2024 21:51

I can't sleep without something covering me, so I'm a half in half out but with a sheet. But I also have to have a quilt to rest my leg on.

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