NO MORE COLD MUMSNETTERS!

Brilliant thread, I wish I'd known about the bubble wrap earlier too.

Amazon have microwaveable slippers, I'm going to get DW a pair.

Skully, really? I'm just outside Shrewsbury.

This is a great thread. I really feel the cold and love this advice. I get Raynards in the cold aisle at the supermarket.

On colder nights I recommend a small DC in bed with you

Get a dog. When my (large) Labrador is on my lap I'm less comfortable much warmer.
It's definitely worth getting up and doing something- preferably outside. Whenever I do that, coming in feels warmer. Even 5 minutes of leaf raking/ hedge trimming (with choppers, not electric) star jumps / log sawing warns me up.

I dislike being cold- I remember crying from cold at my parents house once because it was around 6 degrees inside.

Leave the washing up water in the bowl to release heat into the house not sewer.
Set timers on dishwashers/ tumble driers/ washing machines so they are finishing just before you get up- that way they'll have raised the temp of the kitchen by a degree or 2.

Part of my house currently has no roof/ceiling- just a tarpaulin so we're feeling the chills!

soild use a pair of stocking or tights just tie the end up after stuffing

Skully, really? I'm just outside Shrewsbury.

I cut up and sewed together an old coat that was just LONG past refurbishing. Used a needle too, you don't need a sewing machine. Anything, really, in your wardrobe that you know will never be worn again.

One of my indoor-door curtains is a patchwork of old bits of material badly sewn together, but it looks quite sweet, surprisingly.

OK, read the how to claim bit. It says its automatically paid and gives you the opportunity to check if your area is entitled on it too. So if your entitled then you can check when your het a payment.

I made a draught excluder from a jeans leg stuff with straw and small bags of sand to give it some stability. Though I used those items because they were what I had.

Fantastic thread - it's making me feel warm

I just looked at the link for Warm front grant. There was a link to cold weather payments on there.

Just going to look at claiming now as although I work so don't get income support and get universal credit but employed - it does say if your child gets DLA you may be entitled whether your employed or not.

I'm going to look at curtains in charity shops - that's a fab idea. Also going to look at getting one to put up in bathroom, inside, over the door as that is the room where window will be open (even in winter!) after shower/ bath. It may keep the cold in there only and help keep it warmer/warm up quicker after.

Um, get pregnant! Im roasting half the time it feels like I have my own central heating, rarely put the heating on and living in t-shirts and cotton/ linen clothes. (Obviously I'm joking, but I really do not feel the cold right now at 35 weeks pregnant and I loathe visiting other people's houses that have them so hot!)

I don't have any draught excluders and no sewing machine. What do you all use to make them? I have an old sheet to stuff it with

No oil this year for me either - but things I know are:

Forget heating the house - heat you. So in the morning I run a small electric heater in the bathroom for five minutes while I have a shower. When I'm warm I dress in as many merino/wool/cashmere things as appropriate (all old or from charity shops) and keep drinking hot drinks (one herbal tea bag lasts me all day, but by about 5 p.m. it doesn't really taste of anything anymore... ).

In the evening I'm fortunate enough to have a woodburner in the sitting room and have that going for a couple of hours - scrumped wood on the way to and from work is a great contribution, and I spend maybe £5 a week on coal to supplement it. I have curtains over every downstairs doorway so it's quite comfortable just sitting for the evening as long as you're right in front of the fire.

I've never had a heated bedroom so that's not an issue, but last year I bought a small electric blanket and it's a revelation! 1/2 hour before bedtime and it's just gorgeous.

If I tried to heat this leaky 300 year old house I'd have to spend a stupid amount of money (that I don't have). So I don't bother, I just heat me.

My house has really bad condensation. I wizz round with the Karcher window vac in the morning. Takes about 2 minutes. Then I open the windows for about an hour. Bbbrrrr!

Not much to add - but I agree that tights and leggings are ridiculously warm when you're outside, and in general.

Another issue is condensation - I think because it can be so damp here, it makes it feel colder. There's all sorts of dehumidifiers (including "eggs" that you can reset in your microwave) on amazon, which aren't too expensive and can help dry the air out a bit.

I use the gas fire in the lounge and one if the hob burners to heat the kitchen.
The heating only goes on for a couple if hrs at night for kids bath and bed.

slipper socks sound good, anyone know where you can get cheap second hand curtains from, we have massive bay window with no curtains, the charity shops are empty wish i had not thrown away moldy blinds in the spring thinking i would have a job by now.

Mattress toppers make your bed warmer, but they are expensive and an old duvet under the bottom sheet works just as well. Flannelette sheets are really cosy, or a cheapie fleecy blanket on acold sheet can make all the difference and as someone else said a hotwater bottle is lovely. Put hotty in bed with pjs wrapped round it, then they are warm to put on and bed will be too, and hotty not scalding hot by then. Possibly cheaper than using hairdryer

Excellent, thank you x

I've got to tell you all at out my new socks!

I bought some slipper socks from Primark at the weekend, pushed the boat out and spent £4 on a pair. I've just got them out and they are fur lined!

Guess where I'm going again this weekend? They'd make ideal Christmas Pressies for older girls/teens/women.