To never ever put the heating on?

[Awayawaywe]

In the last 2 years we have had the heating on a maximum of 10 days. We use hot water bottles at night and blankets and copius amounts of tea to keep warm. This means our electricity bill is the same in the summer as it is in winter (although we do bathe more in winter as in summer we mostly just have a wash)
We have 3dc all five and under and now when I visit other peoples houses I am sweltering! I end up in a vest sweating my head off!
Are we the only ones?!!!!

Ps this is saving us about £30 a month in the winter months.

Your house must be damp. Your call. But you probably also whiff and then go out and honk other people out.

I hope OP comes back.

"This is an odd thing to write. Before central heating people had other heat sources, generally open fires. They did not live in unheated homes as you’re trying to imply you actually think."
She hasnt indicated she hasnt got another heat sources Most homes have fires in the sitting room. If someone says "I havent switched the heating on yet etccc", I never presume they havent been having the fire on. Our heating is only on a few months of the year and then only on for an hour or two in the day, usually when we get up and in the evening. Otherwise we have the fire on. As most people do.

The other crap thing about central heating is what it does to family set-ups.
In years gone by, you all sat in the one room with the fire going, because it was cosy.
None of this all sodding off to your own toasty rooms and hardly seeing anyone..

@AutumnRose1, she's drinking that copious tea

"But you probably also whiff and then go out and honk other people out."
Why would she whiff if she is washing? She hasnt said she isnt washing, she is washing, just not having a bath.

Ok tabby, so you think she says they drink tea, use hot water bottles and blankets to stay warm and neglected to tell us she’s an open fire to heat the house.

"The other crap thing about central heating is what it does to family set-ups.
In years gone by, you all sat in the one room with the fire going, because it was cosy.

None of this all sodding off to your own toasty rooms and hardly seeing anyone.."
I agree. You all sat in the living room together.

If you can’t wash regularly or dry your clothes efficiently, your clothes and your house smells of damp.

Of course she could be putting them in front of all the fires she’s having...

"bet your kids are the ones in nursery who always have red runny noses and bright pink cheeks. And thick itchy woolly jumpers with snottery sleeves."

What a horrible thing to say. Colds are viruses you dont get them from being cold. And why would you think they are in woolly jumpers?

Well that's not strictly true. Being cold suppresses the immune system, so they are more likely to catch things.

Ah, yes, the good ol' days or being damp and filthy.

Yeah, I have quite a few friends from Norway and Sweden and none of them are sitting wrapped in blankets with flasks of tea in their own home. They use heating They also love saunas! What is this weird myth and where did it come from?!

I don't think it's very good for the house to not ever really have the heating on.

"Ok tabby, so you think she says they drink tea, use hot water bottles and blankets to stay warm and neglected to tell us she’s an open fire to heat the house."

Yesssssss. We had a fire and sat with an extra cardi on or a blanket on our knees if cold. We also took hot water bottles up to bed. A gas fire in the sitting room doesnt heat the bedrooms

Op did say she had storage heaters. Which rooms are they in, op, and why do you still need to huddle under blankets?

"don't think it's very good for the house to not ever really have the heating on."
Do you have yours on all year?

Well why wouldn't you put the heating on? Especially with young children, I really hope it isn't to save money. Nice of you to keep warm drinking ample tea, surely your children are not drinking tea, so how are they keeping extra warm. Hot water bottles can be very dangerous, I certainly would not allow my young children to go bed with it. Do you live in a flat? I can't fathom how you don't turn the heating on

"Op did say she had storage heaters. Which rooms are they in, op, and why do you still need to huddle under blankets?"
Is a storage heater the same as a hot water emerson? If so, these are usually in a cupboard in the bedroom. We used to put clothes on there to dry and warm.

I admit I don’t actually know what they are, Tabby 😆

I’m with you. I’m very rarely cold enough to want the heating on - I like snuggling up with blankets to keep warm at night. Other people seem to have the heating on as default and I’m always counting down the hours til I can disappear back to my nice cool house lol

We have friends like this. Hate visiting their home and only do so as a last resort. So cheap, can't see how it's worth it when everyone's sat there shivering

No a storage heater is not the same as a hot water Immersion heater.

I have visited Norway often and they have the best heated, cosiest homes I’ve ever come across.

It can cause damp and frozen pipes during the winter months so it’s actually better to use it even if you have it consistently at a lower level.

With young DC’s at home I think YABU, having a cold home is no fun at all.

*There is if you cant afford it. And it does show that it was perfectly do-able to live without central heating.

OP hasn't indicated that she can't afford it.

And nobody is arguing that it's not doable - of course it is, but why on earth would you choose it if you had a choice?

Go back 100 years and lots of people didn't have indoor toilets, or electricity, or running water, or washing machines. The fact that people managed to live a certain way 40 years ago isn't an argument for doing so today.