To never ever put the heating on?

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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.

I’ve seen people on tv crying because they can’t afford to put the heating on and they want their home to be a comfortable temperature for their kids.

Then I’m reading this.

crazy.

@TinnedPearsForPudding 😅

I grew up in a house without central heating and it was ok. I do use mine now though!

We had a power cut back in December. For us, that meant no lighting, heating or cooling facilities (we contemplated getting the camping stove out for hot water bottles and tea, we took the kids to pizza hut for diiner). In those 8hrs, the temperature of the house dropped massively.

Our heating is relatively low, and we have it only on a few hours a day,but it's needed.

Sounds miserable.

When I was a child (and we’re talking in the 90s here) our house was always cold, I wasn’t allowed to turn the radiator up beyond a certain point. I had chilblains as a teenager and used to huddle against my radiator. I used to sneak the temperature of the electric heater up in the living room. I was always cold.

That’s how I remember my childhood, being cold. Now I have my own house I have the heating on because I can’t stand being cold.

I feel sorry for your kids

So good for you guys for going the whole hog if that works for you!

You think she doesn’t heat her home with three young kids for environmental reasons?

I pay £80 a month for gas & electric, have the heating on from 6.30am to 9.30pm full blast. There is being careful & then there is being tight, you are being tight, what a miserable existence, to come on here & brag about the fact you don't use your heating at all, not even in winter, your poor children. I'm sorry but I hope someone contacts social services, you shouldn't be allowed to have your children.

Sounds horrendous. Why would you do that? It’s nothing to be proud of unless you literally can not afford it.

Do you make your guests freeze if they come over?

we boil a kettle in the morning and keep it in the thermos so only one boil Why? You sound tight.

Have fun when your kids are teenagers and want to be warm and actually make a fresh cup of tea.

Oh and are you going to stop them having showers too?

Oh and I have storage heaters too. Fucking shite things and I can definitely turn mine off!! In fact and not through wanting too mine were off from October until December. I'd taken 2 weeks of my left over annual leave when I had my last miscarriage but a mix up meant I didn't get paid for it and my wages were £600 down. It meant that even though I was twice as cold as normal suppose through the shock of going into the scan and finding out Baby had died and from all the blood loss that followed for the next 5 weeks I just couldn't keep warm no matter what. It also meant I didn't eat or drink properly for 4 weeks because I was worried about money too.

I’d rather pay the money and have the heating. You can’t be that skint if you’ve chosen to have had 3 kids in quick succession! Heating isn’t something I’d be scrimping on and I don’t think it’s really anything to be proud of. If you invited me to your house and refused to heat it I’d decline the invite.

I gather that, from an environmental perspective, it would make a difference if everyone heated their homes a bit less. I’ve started to heat the house a bit less and wear a warmer jumper. So good for you guys for going the whole hog if that works for you!

If she cared about the environment that much, she wouldn't have had three kids

Most people had no central heating over 40 years ago and not all houses were full of damp. Its do-able...but I wouldnt want to go back to those days.

SIL and BIL rarely had the heating on, house was freezing and none of the kids slept through the night because they were cold.

We stayed for a few days, I’ve got a chronic illness so asked for the heating to be put on.

The nights we were there the kids slept through.

The heating went on more often after that.

" this is saving us about £30 a month in the winter months."
I think being warm is worth a lot more than that to me.

I grew up without central heating but the living room was heated by a gas fire, the oven was left with the door open in the kitchen and there was an electric fire on the wall in the bathroom. We also had hot water bottles and electric blankets. It was still cold and I do not think back on it with any sentimentality!

Also from memory once you start to take hot liquid out of a thermos the temperature starts to drop, am happy to be corrected here.

Christ! I spend £175 a month on eke

You're seeting your house up fir damp and mold.
Your frugle ways aren't really that frugal at £30 a month.
Only a wash in summer? Chances are you all smell and people are polite not saying anything.
Life is too short.

If you need to save the money fair enough. But if not, why do it? Your poor kids! I hate being cold and I'd definitely check with your kids if they are cold. Ask them.

At night it's OK to huddle under blankets, again, if it really is warm enough.

The "we only have a wash in the summer" I find a bit questionable. Why would you stop bathing because it's summer??

What a miserable existence for your children.

Fucking hell, what a miserable existence. I've just moved out of a rented flat with storage heaters (lived there for six years) so I know how expensive they are but I'd rather just pay it than be cold in my own home.

My parents are tight with the heating, I sit with freezing hands and feet when I visit them. I remember when I was a teenager, friends actually brought extra layers to wear when they visited because the house was so cold!

You shouldn't need to sit under layers of blankets drinking your miserable thermos of tea to stay warm in your own home!

We got a multi fuel stove,solved all our heating problems.We dont pay for heat anymore as dh can get the wood for free.I hate being cold.

Your kids are gonna be the smelly kids with damp smelling uniforms

Christ! I spend £175 a month on electricity and almost never have the heating on upstairs at all. We have a log burner too!

There's 2 oap's in our house and 2 under 3 too so we need it warm at least!

Not sure I'd cope in your house!