Why do people think being cold is automatically more an issue than being too hot?

[MotorGreenGrass]

I started a thread about the heating and my lodger.

Automatically people state they can’t be cold…. At the same time, neither can I be too hot?

So surely a consensus can be meet?

@RampantIvy, yes!! She's still freezing!
She always brings an extra cardigan too. And we're all sat down as well?

@Macaroni46, honestly, our house is warm. The only place she doesn't moan about being cold is when she's on holiday and it's about 35 degrees!!

I'd much rather be too cold than too hot. I love being cosy and I love making sure that my DC are cosy and comfy but I hate having the central heating on!

So we wrap up, wear layers, use hot water bottles and hot drinks to stay warm.

During the day when I'm home alone (WFH) the thermostat is set at 16°. It changes to 18 or 19° when others are home, but not for long. Our house is well insulated so it doesn't take much to warm up.

Hot air makes my allergy worse and then I can't breathe properly. I think DH has acclimatised!

Hot Scottish summers are too much for me!

OP I have a cooling towel. You soak it in cold water, wring it out, then 'snap' it. I wrap it round my neck or wrists when I'm too hot.

I think it's easier to warm up than it is to cool down.

I'm obviously made for cooler climates. I love it when it's cold outside! I love being able to wrap up, go for a walk and not overheat.

I too get a cold, runny nose but that's ok. Easy to sort.

Ooh I love being too hot! I am always cold. I am wfh today. I have the heating on and am wearing down trousers, two jumpers, a gilet with a battery in to heat it up and a small down jacket, as well as my slippers. My feet are like ice and I still feel freezing.

Hot Scottish summers are too much for me

What are these hot Scottish summers of which you speak?! Are you in some hidden corner of this country that gets hot summers? ‘Cos we’re lucky if we go beyond 22 degrees for a few days of the year.

It's one of these things that everyone feels differently.

I don't feel cold easily. No heating on in the bedrooms and bedroom windows open most of the year.

House thermostat is set to18 degrees, which is warm enough for us most of the time. Thankfully though we all feel the same in our house.

At work it's more of an issue. Half like it very warm and the other half like it much cooler. Not easy there to get a compromise.

@SirChenjins

Hot Scottish summers are too much for me

What are these hot Scottish summers of which you speak?! Are you in some hidden corner of this country that gets hot summers? ‘Cos we’re lucky if we go beyond 22 degrees for a few days of the year.

It's always too hot for me in Scotland in Summer!

But then I do walk to the train station in winter (10 minute walk) in a T-shirt, carrying my heavy winter jacket.

Everyone else on the platform is wrapped up in jackets, scarves, hats, gloves and I'm peeling off layer after layer!

When I was a teenager I got heat stroke in Yorkshire. I'd done a march to the ranges but passed out on the range (cadet camp).

Bog standard sunny day for everyone else!

I think the best compromise is to pick a temperature that's middle of the road say 19° or 20° and then adapt to that. So a cold person does what they can to warm up and a hot person does what they can to cool down.

I am in awe I genuinely wish I felt warm or hot most of the time - trying to move around normally or to work when you’re laden down with layers and wearing fingerless gloves just so you can use your laptop is miserable. We have a team building day this week (oh joy…) in a hotel conference room and I know that it will be freezing - the air con will no doubt be on despite it not even being in double figures outside and I’ll spend the day shivering and not being able to concentrate. I’ll have to plan what I wear very carefully so I’m still looking professional whilst being warm, which won’t be possible.

It's always too hot for me in Scotland in Summer!

I hear you! We are in NE Scotland and I found the spring lockdown really hard because of the heat and not being able to get to the beach.

Some like it hot, some like it cold
Some freeze while others smother
And by some fiendish fatal plot
They marry one another...

I have poor circulation (not quite Reynauds but similar). DH has set the thermostat for my benefit rather than his. I still find it too cold at 22 degrees but I don't say anything, just add more clothes or blankets. I don't like stale air so I do open the windows a lot, the bedroom ones are always open even though it does make the rooms cooler. I suppose it just means our heating comes on more often.

We always go abroad for summer holidays so at least I can enjoy getting really, properly hot. It's been 40 degrees in Corfu and I LOVED IT. It's like being lovingly cuddled, unlike being cold which is like being bitten all over by rats. There's nothing nicer in knowing that you can dress for warm weather and it will stay like that, even if it gets cloudy it's still a lovely 30 degrees. Bliss!

The only time I felt comfortable wearing just a vest top in the UK - no cardigan! - was when I was pregnant, it was glorious although I felt a bit sad to realise that this temporary state was how other people felt all the time...

People who feel the cold easily and who hate being cold aren’t sitting around in t-shirts all year round
I am usually in a million layers, if the weather’s cold I’ll have a vest, two layers of long and short sleeve t-shirt, two layers of jumper usually a hoodie with the hood up and a fleece on top, beanie, one pair normal socks, one pair thick slipper socks. I will still be freezing and need the heating on. The one time a short sleeved t-shirt is broken out would be the height of summer on our few very hot days.

I agree thenoodles nothing better than lying in the blazing sun and you know a freezing cold breeze isn’t coming, it’s like getting in a hot bath. One of my favourite things is getting in the car when the sun’s been out in summer and it’s boiling hot.

Do you know what I’ve realised is in the U.K. you rarely get just jumper and jeans weather! It seems to flip from coat to t-shirt and vice visa with barely any days inbetween

You are correct @ClemFandangoo. I will drink a "Toast" to that

One of my favourite things is getting in the car when the sun’s been out in summer and it’s boiling hot.

Mine too.