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How to keep a hat on at night?

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Snowbored · 08/01/2021 06:09

Woke up again with a colder than freezing cold draught over my head. I start the night wearing a beanie, I have a pillow upright against the end of the bed but I always wake with a cold head and my hat keeping the pillow warm. Is there a trick? A better suited style of hat?

OP posts:
inquietant · 09/01/2021 06:31

What do you mean by Dh is an arse when it comes to sleep, but he's even more of an arse when he doesn't sleep so I don't interfere with his sleeping foibles?

I really don't understand why you can't just shut the window, that's the obvious solution.

Soutiner · 09/01/2021 07:01

@inquietant

What do you mean by Dh is an arse when it comes to sleep, but he's even more of an arse when he doesn't sleep so I don't interfere with his sleeping foibles?

I really don't understand why you can't just shut the window, that's the obvious solution.

Personally, I’d be placing his ‘foibles’ in the window before slamming it shut!!
amusedbush · 09/01/2021 08:21

@pooopypants

-10? Are you in the Arctic?

I can't decide if you 1) are a blatant troll, 2) just got bored / drunk / high, 3) are SO oblivious to your DH being a massive, selfish prick or 4) think this kind of one sided 'agreement' (read: him TELLING you) is actually normal behaviour

Stop making excuses and sleep somewhere else. Or kick his ice cube of an arse out. Or close the fucking window and stay warm, like you should be, in your own damn bed

Fuck that for a game of soldiers

I’m in Glasgow and it was -9 this morning when I drove DH to work. Not quite the Arctic but still cold as balls!
Ginfordinner · 09/01/2021 08:27

No, no curtains. And I don’t know anyone of my generation who does have them. Just my parents, godparents and aunts and uncles!

I don't know anyone who doesn't have curtains or blinds.

We have them because:

  1. In winter it makes the room a lot warmer
  2. I feel vulnerable because people can see in
  3. It makes the room lighter. They are light cooured and reflect the light back into the room. A gaping black hole when it is dark outside makes the room feel colder and darker
  4. In summer I don't want to wake up at 3 am (we live quite far north)
Wannabegreenfingers · 09/01/2021 08:50

This is weird. Everyone I know of all generations has curtains, blinds, window coverings. It sounds like you don't want to resolve the issue??

Bluntness100 · 09/01/2021 08:50

This is one of these threads where you read it and it’s so batshit you hope it isn’t real.

Seriously op you go to bed with a hat on becayse your husband sleeps with the window open and you don’t know anyone who has curtains or blinds in their bedroom?

sashh · 09/01/2021 09:16

Get a sleeping bag, one that has a drawstring so you can pull it round your head.

Or buy an electric heat pad - like a mini heated blanket and use it as a pillow.

Buy or make a bed canopy.

Soutiner · 09/01/2021 10:03

@Bluntness100

This is one of these threads where you read it and it’s so batshit you hope it isn’t real.

Seriously op you go to bed with a hat on becayse your husband sleeps with the window open and you don’t know anyone who has curtains or blinds in their bedroom?

You forgot to add the op must also be nearly 7 foot tall as her feet overhang the bed if she lays out straight!!

The average bed is 6’3” in length!

EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/01/2021 10:27

@Bluntness100

This is one of these threads where you read it and it’s so batshit you hope it isn’t real.

Seriously op you go to bed with a hat on becayse your husband sleeps with the window open and you don’t know anyone who has curtains or blinds in their bedroom?

I don't think it is real so reported it.
EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/01/2021 10:30

sorry, posted too soon

and MN replied to say they had no reason to think it wasn't genuine

Tehmina23 · 09/01/2021 11:58

I'm so glad I'm single.

frazzledasarock · 09/01/2021 12:05

Switch places with your husband and if he wakes each time you go to the DC when they wake well that’s tough, he wants the window open.

Suspect he won’t want the window open when he’s sleeping with the window directly above his own head anyway.

Soutiner · 09/01/2021 12:26

Get a glazier to fit a sealed window pane on the outside to surround/enclose your bedroom window so that when he opens the window from the inside no draught will come in but he may be too stupid to notice.

YouBoughtMeAWall · 09/01/2021 12:31

What a stupid thread. Shut the window, put up blinds and curtains. Tell the husband to lump it or sleep elsewhere.

inquietant · 09/01/2021 12:31

@Soutiner

Get a glazier to fit a sealed window pane on the outside to surround/enclose your bedroom window so that when he opens the window from the inside no draught will come in but he may be too stupid to notice.
Grin
violetbunny · 09/01/2021 16:45

@Snowbored

Late 30's. All the people I know have Dc aged 8 +/- a couple of years. Yes, Dh is an arse when it comes to sleep, but he's even more of an arse when he doesn't sleep so I don't interfere with his sleeping foibles. It doesn't get to -10 all that often, no, so it's really not worth causing a fuss. For the few days that it's a problem, a hat that would stay on would be the solution! It's forecast -6 for the rest of the week and then should get a bit warmer before getting colder again. He's never got up with the Dc (I'm a SAHM) so it's easier for me to be in the bed by the door.

Has never once gotten up? Wow, he's sounding like more and more of a catch with every postHmm

He sounds like a selfish controlling prick. And you sound like you're being bullied into dancing to his tune, otherwise he punishes you by getting in a mood Confused

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