We are too used to Central heating..

[Dampclout]

Until the 1980s very few houses had central heating. Most people heated one room, had hot water bottles at bedtime and wore warm clothes. I can recall quickly going out of the warm front room and shutting the door behind me, if I wasn't quick enough there would be be the shout of ‘shut that door’
Nowadays I wear a tee shirt in winter and keep my house at 20c… I think I will be going back to my childhood ways this winter..

Why are ppl pissed off at 18 degrees? It’s room temp? If my heating goes above this I can’t breathe!

All the well off middle classes are going to downsize to smaller homes in the city and force the povvos into sharing 5 bed detatched properties in the Home Counties with 6 other families through market forces.

That or theres going to be a rush on getting in a brickie before the winter. Quick get on the blower NOW.

Why do people see a return to the Victorian Ages as a viable option rather than combat the greedy energy companies?

Surely I am not the only one here with no central heating?

Yes i coughed my way through my childhood with no central heating. Our neighbour who had terrible hearing used to hear my sister and i cough and cough!

Chat with your neighbours and see if they want to go halves in one of those double aspect wood burners!!

one with each neibour & it coukd be toasty 🤣🤣

It is when it's about choice. You choose to live like a Victorian, fine. But other people will be suffering unwillingly because they can't afford it.

Because some of us are aware it can be done. No demand no increases. This is the biggest protest we can actually do. What's your plan? Heat your house into debt? Goodluck with that!!

@Ragged

well you don't need to worry about food, that enormous chip on your shoulder should keep you fed,

The competitive coldness on this site kills me 😂 Why is heating always the first thing to cut back on, yet people wash their clothes/pyjamas/bedding/towels/uniform after one wear?! I shower every 2 days, wash my hair once a week, wash my clothes maybe every 10 wears, towels when they smell, bedding every 6 weeks and pyjamas every week. Never used a tumble dryer. Heating stays at 22 and our bills have always been cheap.

Maybe try cutting back on other things before freezing to death…

We used to have coal fires parrafin heaters and we were sick very sick most of my childhood i spent sick its ridiculous to think at 47 I've got to go back there with no coal fire to use as back up

It's quite widely acknowledged that current younger generations will be the first in history to have a poorer standard of living than their parents.

There's only so good life can get. At some point you run out of resources and space and kill the planet. Life can't keep getting better forever. We're going to have to adjust to a less comfortable life if we want to survive.

But it’s not most people who heat their houses to such an extent that they waft around in tshirt and nightwear all winter. A lot of people already heat their houses a minimal amount and are likely to be very cold this winter. If you can afford to pay for enough heat for it to be tshirt temperature you can turn the thermostat down a couple of degrees, wear a jumper and still be nice and warm!

Freezing to death 🤣🤣 I'm confident we'll be OK. Not happy with manky bedding. Bad hygiene and greasy hair. If I have a choice, the heating goes off!

Four Yorkshiremen Sketch. Just sayin 😂m.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZDB9h7BLY

@kc431 with you on all that. The obsessive washing thing is nuts . There are only 2 of us but I do bedding and towels every 3 to 4 weeks on average , wash my hair once a week etc - dishwasher every 3 days when it's full . My house is clean and tidy .

Lol, my hair is dry AF, bedding and clothes don’t smell at all. Everyone prioritises different things. IMO It’s utter bonkers to wash things so much yet be happy living in an oversizes blanket with a hot water bottle as your only heating.

Towels would smell after a few weeks of being used and not washed.
Bedsheets need changed less if you live alone and do not have sex on them.

(That was in response to the previous poster)

To be a proper mother you must be doubly incontinent after having had 11 kids and live in a house with two bedrooms. You and your hubby share with the 2 under 5 and the other 4 kip downstairs on the sofa bed they all share together. Hell, don't knock it, it saves on the laundry and they can't whinge about being cold. Your two lodgers have the luxury of the spare room. The other 5 kids are dead. 1 died of monkey pox. 1 died of malutrition. 1 died of polio. 1 died getting run over by a Tesla. And the other one you forget how they died cos you've got so many bloody kids and you've lost track. You hand wash all your clothes and dry them all around the computer tower which is kicking out a few extra degrees whilst you work from home. This helps saves you time and at least you can do the school run without too much trouble. In the evenings you go out to your other job. Being liberated woman you work by choice in the Managed Approach area of the city. Baths are every other sunday. You draw straws to decide the order of who goes in the bathwater first. Forget topping up the bath with the kettle. You've gone frugile and are using a one cup hot water dispenser to save money. You collect water off the walls to recycle for the bath and look forward to snow cos it makes the job a whole load easier. As for fluffy towels? MN would be horrified to learn that you no longer use the tumble dryer and instead have crunchy, scratchy line dried monsterities. You ration bog roll. One chicken lasts for the whole house for a week. You live the rest of the week off baked beans cooked on the embers of your ikea dining table.

THEN you are doing it properly.

22 degrees is very high. Wear a jumper.

I can’t decide how I feel about this post.

We got central heading in 1993.

Before that we relied on an electric bar heater and calor gas heaters. We had storage heaters but they were inefficient and cost so much to run.

My mum did everything she could to keep us warm - lots of warm duvets and blankets, fluffy sheets, hot water bottles etc

But I don’t want my children to be cold. I remember staying with a friend in the 90’s who didn’t have central heating. There was ice inside the windows and the house was freezing - genuinely freezing with lots of damp and mould.

I don’t want this for my children - I think there is a middle ground.

I also have the gene where you don’t get BO, so I’ve never washed clothes much, only pants/socks after 1 wear. Washing constantly is so wasteful and bad for the planet, but people happily turn a blind eye to this and harp on about heating - when the whole of Eastern Europe is heating their entire blocks of flats to about 30 degrees for 8 months solid

I DO wear a jumper, and thermal vests, and socks. But I feel the cold a lot and have bad circulation. 22 is room temp for me, 26+ would be “very high”.

best comment