AIBU to leave bedroom windows open at night?

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DD's bedroom is like a sauna, it's awful, she frequently wakes up feeling sick, which I don't doubt for a second it's all the heat. Her bedroom is at the front of the house. She has a floor fan, which is very powerful, but she has it going on Number 3 all night! All it's doing is causing that hot air to move around more. I opened her window one night, including all ours and we weren't murdered in our sleep.

DD loves a lot of these crime shows and was annoyed about the Windows being open, claiming she's going to be killed.

So I'm curious whether you leave your windows open?

I can't sleep without a window open, I find the room too stuffy.

I really want to sleep with the window open menopausal heat but don't the birds all wake you up at 5am?

Windows always open what ever the weather. I couldn't sleep otherwise.

I live in Sweden. The bedroom window has been open at -27 before. :)

always always open.

We had a bedroom downstairs for a bit (house share) and some thief stuck his hand through the window with a torch once at night time! Gave me a heck of a shock - the bed was just under the window, I was on my own and the windows open up wide enough that you could easily climb through if you were tall enough.

After that I kept a hammer on the nightstand, because it was summer and too hot with the window closed. I did think about keeping some handcuffs there too so I could apprehend anyone who tried it again, but we decided that angering any potentially violent criminals was a bad idea.

Doesn't your window have the safety catch you need to push in order to open the window fully? Perhaps explain this to her and it will abate her fears?

No, ours don't have one of those. They are new and plastic... They didn't come with a latch.

Thank all for the advice

OP, if they are new, they might have the way of leaving them open a crack - if you open them a little and then pull down the handle as if to shut them, then it will lock them with a small gap. I thought all modern windows had to have that feature

always used to have the window open a snick! But since we moved here, not so much.

the windows are tilt/turn so they are open really quite wide so I have got used to just having the trickle vents open.

house is pretty old and draughty, and we do not have the radiators on at all in our room.

also, we are in the middle of a cow farm...those dairy cows like to wake up early and let you know alllllllllllll about it. Plus the birds that like to nest build and twitter away and the cat that likes to try and catch them by flappin his paws wildly through any gap
And we are one very small field away from the North Sea....so on the 3,8 evenings per year that it is not blowing a hoolie it's admittedly very pleasant to hear the sea, with the waves gently caressing the beach, but mostly the howling winds and crashing waves on the foreshore are better shut out!

I'm surprised new windows dont have that feature

I only have mine open right now cause I currently have a ferret in my room!

I hate having it open, it's an attic window on a busy street. Ambulances with their blues and twos come past often, people walk past all the time and the birds wake me up in the morning.

I hate the smell of the ferret more than the noise though. He won't smell for long , he was intact and in rut but has just been altered and I need to keep an eye on him for a bit.

i dont because i get moths coming in or sometimes wasp