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.

Ack, come on everybody! We clearly have a Billy Bullshitter in our midst and you're probably just making her little attention seeking heart flutter.

No one can fuel 2 adults and five hot water bottles off one kettle boil. Nope. Nada.

She's that annoying colleague who out does everything you say, "Did you enjoy Tenerife? Did I tell you about the time I went to Elevenarife!?" leave her to it!

My family home is an ancient house, several hundred years old. We had these huge cast iron radiators in every room which never ever worked as my dad didn’t really think we needed heating. It was bloody bitter in winter, a PP mentioned having chilblains-me too. My nose was always ice cold when I was in bed. We were only allowed electric blankets when we were teenagers for some weird (controlling I presume) reason.

The windows weren’t double-glazed, they were those crittall (sp?) windows with metal frames, ice on the inside etc.

Parents weren’t poor, they were just not used to having heat themselves I suppose!

I remember doing my homework in my room in fingerless gloves and a scarf. It was a bit grim. I thought it was normal until I started going to other children’s houses which were warm and had -gasp- deep pile wall-to-wall carpets and the like (we had wooden floors and rugs).

Anyway, I bloody love heating. I definitely don’t want my dc to recall being cold.

You’d hate me OP, we all went out on Saturday at around 9am and I forgot to turn the heating off, got home at 8pm to a very toasty house. Oops!

Why don’t you shower in the summer?

Smelly kids have a hard time of it, Chillicheese. Being middle class won’t save them.

*"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*

Actually, that's not entirely true @TabbyMumz. Cold viruses thrive in a cold nose. Not so much in a warm nose. Cold noses are not as effective at fighting odd a cold virus.

I think young children would be at serious risk of getting chest Infections and colds TBH. Homes need heating or mould and damp will take over .If you cant afford heating then maybe best to see if there are any benefits you can claim ? I think as PP said HV would be concerned about this kind of heating deficit

Fighting off not odd

@PeppermintPasty did you grow up in Hill House ?!

Only in Britain.

Fuck that shit

I've got a friend like you, when we go to her house dd won't take her coat off because it bloody freezing.

I hate having the central heating on, it makes me feel stifled. I have it on though because DP feels the cold and wants it on. When he's not here I leave the door wide open! Not at night obviously.

quickest way to promote mould and damp in the house and air. Also illness as your immune system takes a hit doing this.

Surely you’d wash more in the summer than in winter

Also wondering where you live that was warm yesterday.

Do you warn visitors coming to your home? Especially your DC friends? My parents ended up using heating more when I started keeping my coat on after school.

Sounds miserable. Fuck that.
I grew up in a freezing cold house because we were on the bones of our arse poor and when the boiler broke it was 2 years before we could afford to have it repaired. I was horrendous and I was too embarrassed to have friends over.

It was warm here in London yesterday. I went out in a cardigan.

You leave your Windows open while you're out?!

Wouldn't fancy doing that round here! Well ok sometimes I leave one open a little and they have those catch things but only if I'm going out for not too long...

If you get burgled I don't think your insurance will be valid.

I know someone who is like this. It's almost a bit weird and boastful - they can well afford it but seem to like being freezing. Bizarre.

If you need to use many blankets and copious amounts of tea and water bottles to endure being home, then you and DC are not exactly used to it and happy to live in a freezing house, are you?

I still remember how miserable I was as a child, waking up in a cold room and getting dressed under covers, because it was just too cold otherwise. Washing was something to be endured, shivering and covered in goosebumps, not the pleasant experience my own DC have.

All this to save 30 quid per month?

I hate being cold. Much more fuel efficiency to have central heating on a low setting and maintain house temperature

@Chillicheese123 lol, pretty much yes. The ghosts were friendlier though, one who used to appear to my mum and dad in the bedroom from time to time, and another one who’d wander about the garden.

We were probably hallucinating because of the cold

I lived in a cold house growing up and now I keep the temp up so I don't have to wear 6 jumpers and a sleeping bag to bed. I don't know why you wouldn't put it on unless you're struggling financially. All over £30 which is £1 a day!

“ Washing was something to be endured”

I still remember my first rental being like this because it was all I could afford. When I moved out, I was really embarrassed to find that clothes which hadn’t been worn a while smelled of damp.

Up to you but it sounds bloody miiserable.

I don't heat my house so it's like a sauna, but neither do I want to be sitting around under blankets.

There's nothing virtuous about living in a cold house.

Oh dear, who boils a kettle and then decants into a flask? What is the wholly headed point? I mean how may flasks are there?

This thread might have credibility if the money saving ideas weren’t so daft. Not bathing in summer, boiling kettles to fill flasks (inefficiency at its best), leaving windows open for burglars and using hot water bottles instead of radiators for a family. Clue OP, one localises heat at a high cost and the other radiates heat around a room, efficiently and cheaply. That’s why they were invented.

To be fair the Household smell probably deters burglars. Unless they are flask burglars.