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’.

Agreed, but putting a (first) jumper and a (first) pair of bloody socks on is 0p an hour, though. (Which is even more important if you have a tendency to go out and leave them on). If she is still cold with actual clothes on, she’s welcome to the power. I’m not asking her not to use it, just to put something other than a pair of summer pjs on first.

Sadly, we are that hard up, to. I have not had a penny to spare over the summer and have had to keep my grocery bill under £20 a week for two of us. The thought of having to make it work with heating and drying laundry as well is filling me with dread. Not her fault and a new situation for us, but still how it is. I’m dealing with it, but it’s taking longer than I’d like.

Exactly

I don’t think it’s meant that her body literally can’t generate heat, but just that she doesn’t warm up.
Im the same, I’ll wear three layers plus a fluffy dressing gown, socks, scarves etc and still bagel freezing until I have a heat source eg heating, hot bath.
Even a hot water bottle doesn’t work, as everything else will be cold except the part of my body the water bottles on.
No need to be nasty, everyone’s different

I still maintain that the cold people need to get shifting more

The best place to position a hot water bottle by the way is in the small of your back while sitting on the sofa wrapped up

I think what you are talking about is that when you get cold you don't heat up quickly with just layers, not that you don't heat up at all!!

Best way to heat up quickly once you have layers on is move. Run around a bit (or jump on the spot) and your body heat will warm up the layers and you'll feel warmer much quicker.

Otherwise yes, you can feel cold for quite a long time before the body heat gets trapped in the jumpers. (And not all jumpers are equal - some cheap fashion jumpers are pretty useless at actually keeping you warm.)

I’ll give that a go at some point.
Sometimes I will slather some deep heat/tiger balm all over my back, then put on the layers, that helps

One of my teens said he was a bit chilly. He was in a Tshirt, shorts and no socks!
ILs are the same. They have all the internal doors open to 'spread the heat' which I don't understand!

I mean, I’ve never measured with a thermometer, maybe I’m heating up a bit, but there’s this feeling I get.
It’s hard to describe it, but it feels like it’s in my bones, especially in my back. Even once my hands etc have warmed up, that chill will still be there. As I’ve said, it feels like the cold is inside me.

When it’s really bad I’ll have a hot bath, I might even be sweating because of the stream etc, but still feel that chill.
I suppose hard to understand if you’ve never had that feeling.

As said earlier, I struggle to understand people being to hot, and not being able to cool down, because it doesn’t happen to me. I just think more people seem to run ‘hot’ than those of us who run ‘cold’

Really? You don't understand this obvious reasoning?

I keep all my radiators turned off and just flick a radiator on in the room I am using - heats up very quickly - efficient combi-boiler. I also wear lots of layers.

Put your jumper on, turn the heating off and soon, they will learn to adapt. We did it in the 80s, they can do it now. X

Can't believe there are people who think putting a jumper on doesn't make you feel any warmer than not putting a jumper on 😆

Then there are the people who always say "you won't feel the benefit" if you put your coat on any time not immediately before stepping out into the cold. I'll actually be a bit warmer, thanks for contributing.

that’s ridiculous- he should be in trousers; jumper: socks and slippers. We sit under a blanket in the evening. Rarely have heating on, much better things to spend money on!

Your body is naturally warm, a jumper keeps the heat in. Someone didn't pay attention in physics 😅

No. Surely you close doors to keep heat in when central heating is on.

If I am really cold, putting a jumper on doesn't help me much either. I feel the cold and have an underactive thyroid.

Putting a jumper on does very little to warm me up if I'm already feeling really cold. I completely understand the cold to the bone feeling, where putting on a jumper is going to do very little to make you feel warmer.

I remember being outside in the cold last winter for a while and coming home so bloody cold that I was still feeling freezing, despite laying under blankets and layering up. I guess people are lucky if they don't get it. I find it much harder to warm up than I do to cool down.

And there is this.

I would have to wear a hat, scarf and gloves. Not something I am willing to do at home.

I'm sure I post this yearly but for cold to the bone (I get it, horsey person!)

Make a brew
Put your feet in a bowl/bucket with hot but comfortable temp water and mustard powder while you drink the brew
I don't know how it works but it's something my Nan would do and I'm usually sweating within 5 minutes. Apparently you can also buy mustard bath stuff but I haven't been brave enough yet

I’m another one who can’t heat up when cold.. put a jumper on just doesn’t work for me! I need a hot shower or bath and then the layers. I don’t think it’s that unusual

Of course it will heat you up - unless you're a lizard.

And it's not magic.

For all those saying once you get cold you can't warm up with layers/jumper, surely even so you wouldn't put the heating on while in short sleeves?

I don't put the heating on unless I'm really cold with jumpers etc. on. But I do get the posts about being cold to the bone. I have Reynaulds and once I'm cold I really find it difficult to warm up. I can be in bed at night under a winter duvet, thick blanket and fresh after a hot shower and still be shivering and struggling to warm up. We're all different and have different tolerances for cold/heat.

In comparison, even when we have heatwaves I usually feel very comfortable and can cope with heat very easily wile the rest of my family are complaining, sweating and fed up of the heat. I'm clearly designed to live in a hot country rather than the UK!

It's always made me feel warmer. It retains body heat.

So what do you do when you don't have access to a shower or bath?

You would have to have a really weird metabolism not to warm up if you wrap up properly. If you want to speed up the warming effect, try a little exercise.