To say ‘put a bloody jumper on’?

[Bookishnerd]

We have a wood burner, and twice this week I’ve come into the living room to find my DH has started a fire… but he’s wearing boxers or shorts or ‘summer clothes’.

We have quite a warm house and it gets roasting upstairs. We bought extra logs this winter to heat the downstairs only, as it doesn’t take much for heat to rise and it to get too hot.

It’s been chilly the last few days, and I’m not a miser - if he’s cold, put the fire on, no problem.

But put a jumper on first?! Get dressed?! Don’t waste energy and money?

When I mentioned it to him, he brushed me off with a shrug and a ‘meh’.

You’re not wrong. Fed up with TV reports of people bemoaning the cost of heating their homes whilst wearing vest tops and T-shirts, too.

I know someone who wears flip flops and t shirts and then has the heating on 27. I hate visiting

I feel your pain. I am surrounded by family walking around in boxers and t-shirts saying "bit of a nip in the air - we should turn the heat on for an hour".......while I am toasty in a dressing gown. It's only September. When we're still cold even when wrapped up well, that's when the heat should go in in my humble opinion i.e. December/January.

A jumper/other extra layer only works if the air around you is already warm. It won’t magically heat you up.

No. It traps your body heat

He's an absolute dick.

SecretVictoria · Today 10:12
A jumper/other extra layer only works if the air around you is already warm. It won’t magically heat you up.“

not correct. Layers trap air which is then warmed by body heat.

Yes it will. Layers will trap warm air.

Are you a heating on full whilst wearing flip flops kind of person?

But if the air isn’t already warm….

I used to rent a room off people like this. The house was freezing, they only put the heating on for an hour a day (big house, big rooms). However many layers I wore, I was never warm, as there was no warm air for the layers to trap!

A jumper/other extra layer only works if the air around you is already warm. It won’t magically heat you up.

It doesn’t need magic. Extra layers act as insulation. You feel/are warmer because you are losing less body heat

I can't warm up once I'm already cold. There are times when I've come home to a warm house after watching football and I've only warmed up once I've got undressed and changed my clothes.

I can feel the cold air coming away from me as I get undressed.

We have a log burner so we can keep energy bills down but also so we can dress how we like in the house.We prefer to be warm but wear t shirts etc

But if the air isn’t already warm….

Your body heats up the air around you, then the jumper will keep that warm air next to you, rather than have it dissipate into the atmosphere.

Are you being serious?

My ex used to do this he was a dick. They stink as well.

Your body makes the warmth

Your body generates its own heat. The jumpers etc trap that close to your skin instead of losing it to the air around you.

Our wood burner has been laid ready for lighting for a few days. I was half tempted to light it this morning with the DC home from school - now I’ve read this thread I’ve put a jumper on them each instead 😂.

When is the acceptable date to light the first fire? 🤔

😂right you are

Definitely warm socks and layers.

I'm trying to hold off using the oil I've about 250 litres and will need to refill it soon before Christmas. 😩

But if the air isn’t already warm….

Maybe a video will help…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoDs-Zkvo8

Yes exactly.

If layers only worked when there was warm air to trap, then there would be no point in wearing coats in winter

Nonsense.
No point in wrapping up and going outside into that cold air then when it’s frosty then!??

To quote Billy Connelly - there’s no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.

Layers work like a wetsuit. So they Layers trap air and then your body heat heats them to keep you warm.

Layers, in conjunction with making sure feet, hands and head are warm is very effective, it's nothing to do with the outside air being warm because otherwise there would be no point wearing a coat in cold dry weather.

Yes, I lived there for over a year and was constantly freezing. I would get up into a cold room, in a cold house and have to have a cold shower (they wouldn’t heat the water either 🙄). I just couldn’t get warm once I was already that cold.

Or I’d come in from work, to a freezing room in a freezing house. Again, however many layers, I’d never feel warm and comfortable. It’s horrible.