to think sleeping with open windows in January is only Right And Proper?

[RevoltingPeasant]

Seriously, surely this is normal? DH just made his 'pained face' when I popped up to air the bedroom prior to retiring. Over Christmas I opened all the windows in my mum's and PILs' insanely overheated windows before going to sleep. I almost always have open windows to get fresh air whilst we sleep.

I don't know how anyone can sleep in a stuffy room with the windows shut all day and all night! DH keeps saying 'But it's December'. Apart from the fact that it's now January, isn't he BU??

I live in a ground floor flat, my bedroom window is spitting distance away from a bus stop no way could I sleep with the windows open.

I do open them every morning, that's all windows not just bedrooms and dc bedroom window is open till I go to bed as their room seems stuffy all the time.

I don't like going to bed cold I like fresh air but not at night when I'm in bed. Why would you want to be cold for?

It must be only in very quiet areas you could keep the window open at night!

I live in a ghetto! I think you just get used to the noises

YABU and your poor DH has my sympathy.

You should buy him a dual-control kingsize electric blanket before he digs a hole under the patio.

Yabu!

I can only sleep in a hot room, usually keep it at 22 overnight. Fleece + thermal PJ's and mahoosive winter duvet. Even cool air against my face wakes me up and keeps me up for ages. Yes, I'm a lightweight.

How has this issue just arisen? Did you marry yesterday?

We don't need to open windows to get a cool, well ventilated house (Edwardian single glazing achieves that) and have to put extra heating on to keep dd's room at 16c at night. Doing something that would raise our heating bills further, as air flow means our room is not isolated, is not a choice I'm going to make.

How do you lot makes yourselves get out of bed in the morning? I would hate to get up in a freezing room and go from snugly warm to shivery in a few seconds. That's why my windows stay shut that and my fear of a break in

I always open the bedroom windows first thing in the morning to air them. Also we never sleep with the bedroom door closed unless we have guests, or with the heating on overnight unless it is exceptionally cold (then we would only have it ticking over to prevent the pipes from freezing)

I can't sleep with the windows open as the noise keeps me awake and at this time of year it is just too cold.

So I don't understand why everyone else's bedroom is hot and stuffy.

YANBU.i throw open the big windows every night even in snow, do not heat bedroom, have a summer duvet all year etc. I get boiling at night and panic about not having fresh air whilst sleeping. I wondered whether this is because I have asthma? Do the rest of you with open windows have asthma too?
In the summer I also need a fan directed right at me so I can feel like I can breathe.

DH has resigned himself to this way of living but has been caught in the act of closing the windows a fraction before and paid the price. :-D

I dread to think what I'll be like when I hit menopause, I already get hot and sweaty far too easily.

My neighbours always comment that we sleep with windows open but are glad we do as I preventing two car thefts by hearing people fiddling with locks and also regularly yell at drunk people to move along rather than chat outside our house (we live in a quiet area and I'm a light sleeper so I don't think I'd cope anywhere noisier or I'd be awake all the time).

Heating comes on half an hour before we get up and I. Warm my clothes on the radiator!

YANBU. We have to have our bedroom window open overnight or we wake up feeling stuffy and fuzzy.

Before we get in bed one or other of us checks if the window is open.

we have a medium tog duvet on, an electric under blanket if we are very chilly, and we sleep starkers. The heating also goes off on timer about 8.30/9pm, and comes on 15 minutes before we get up at 5.45.

We don't freeze.

If you are a paid up member of the fresh air brigade look away now, what you are about to see may horrify you.

During the winter, we not only don't open the windows. We don't even open the shutters. And sometimes not even the curtains.

i would love to join you in the fresh air brigade, but an unhealthy paranoia about home security runs through DH's family, and he can't sleep with open windows for worrying. so i have to run up and open a window an hour before bed, which he shuts later.

Why do people who like to be cold feel as if they have some sort of moral superiority over those that like to be warm ? ?

And all of you that have your windows open and the heating on, you do realise that your heating costs are going literally out of the window ?

Do the window openers have heating on at night? That hadn't occurred to me.

We would never have heating on overnight, except now dd is here, when it's very cold I set it for an hour from 2am to stop her room dropping to 13 or 14c.

Thing is, having windows open would mean the heating that comes on for a bit in the morning would not be so effective, so we'd either have to put it on for longer or have a colder house during the day.

No we don't have the heating on at night.

No, no heating on from 8.30/9 pm til 5.45/6am

Yanbu. I can't bear stale air I open the windows all the time if the room has even the slightest odour. Euw to windows closed all the time.

people dont have heating on over night do they? even if the windows are closed? that is madness

We all have bedroom widows cracked open here. It's much healthier.

i cant sleep unless a window is open, no matter how cold or noisy it is outside. on the rare occastions where my dh has closed it, i wake all the time, get a headache, my nose gets blocked, i get a sore throat, and i snore really bad.

he does complain about the cold, but im a warm bodied person (more so than most people, im rarely cold) so he snuggles till he gets too hot

I have the windows closed and heating on overnight. If I'm not moving I get cold, no matter how many layers I wear.

When I go for a run in the winter I just wear a t-shirt as my body heats up, as soon as I'm back inside in warm clothes but not moving fast then I get cold.