Cheap ways to feel a bit warmer, add yours.

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It's cold, dull and rainy here. So I've got a video of a real fire playing on YouTube through the telly. It is all glowing and crackling and I haven't had to buy the logs or clean it out. Try it.

I have heat holder socks on over normal socks and my feet are too hot!

Matalan sell them, I'm wearing the children's tonight as they fit very nicely.

Off to bed hot water bottle has warmed it for me.

Fleecy pyjamas , socks and dressing gowns from Primark. I also like thermal vests when it's cold. I put my dressing gown on as soon as I get in, over my clothes.
Where is everyone, by the way? It's not cold at all here (in the southeast).

Co sleeping. A small cuddly hot water bottle which sometimes strokes your face and says Mama when you get in.

I've recently bought a dressing gown and slippets for my dd, and a massive fluffy fleece thing for our bed, spend £20 on the lot.. Heating still isn't on this year [smug face] let's ignore the flat I'm in a first floor flat and benefit from everyone else having the heaters on!

I find doing something, anything, makes me warmer, or at least lets me forget about being cold!!

Taking the dogs for a walk followed by the ironing.

Or... try starting the menopause

base layer, woollies, lots of layers, warm neck. (scarf snood polo) warm feet, (lots of socks, and slippers) cheap fleece throws from asda or tesco or wherever they are doing them now. hat if really cold.

draught excluders at doors. lined curtains. (old sheets, old curtains from the charity shop)

no heating here yet either. man downstairs has been putting his heating on and I have been benefitting! I also only have one outside wall

I'm in NE Scotland. It's freezing here tonight and there's been a frost the last few mornings. Time to turn on the Youtube virtual fire light the fire, I think!

This year I've bough fleece-lined leggings and fleece-lined tights. Currently wearing them one at a time, with furry boots, but next month will be fleece tights under fleece leggings, and fleece socks in the furry boots! If only I could type wearing double-fleeced gloves, I'd be sorted.

Maybe I should market enormous keyboards just for winters in the UK?

Socks don't work for me, they seem to isolate my feet from any heat.

Best bet is cats. But you need more than one per family member as they are fickle creatures and will go on to another lap at the drop of a hat. Really it's best to evict all other humans and then lie down. I've found that with careful balancing you can get three cats on you that way.

An electric blanket and Double glazing film over the windows, or the Perspex ones which you can take off over the spring and summer months. furry slipper boots, fleece lined leggings and wrist warmers, and blankets on your lap on the sofa.
I think I'll give that flower pot heater a go too!

Definitely layers. I tend to wear a vest top (long stretchy one with spaghetti straps from Hennes) under everything-it helps you feel warm around the middle!

I also tend to wear a scarf (not a knitted one!) nearly all of the time too-I think that really helps me keep warm.

Drinking lots of warm drinks helps as well as having cats :)

If you have a tiled floor in the kitchen, a wee washable mat in front of the sink or cooker, helps insulate your feet while washing up or cooking.

Walking socks. I have them on now and my feet are actually a little too warm. Warm feet warm body, lovely

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I still have the husky lay on me. I mean you have to walk several million miles a day (keeps you warm and fit) and then they lie on you while you pour with sweat. Win win
The downside is the cat isn't impressed

Wear fluffy socks with your slippers, wear a long skirt over your tights or pants it makes a huge difference, wear a singlet under your shirt and a cape, serape or poncho over the top, a hat or a hoodie and gloves/mittens and your should be toasty, I can't afford to run a heater so I am an expert on conserving heat, running about will actually dispel your body heat, use cotton blankets or polar fleece & put a blanket UNDER your bottom sheet on the bed it is much warmer.

Yy to CallieG and another pp, I have a single duvet under my double brushed cotton sheet. So toasty.

Get on a busy rush hour train...
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Not having the heating in isn't an option usually here; it gets so cold. We got eight inches of snow yesterday and it's -7 your temp.

I have mindees three days a week and have to keep it fairly warm for them, but the rest of the time I'd like to save a bit of money and keep it cooler. This thread is great! :)

Those of you who do have central heating, what temperature do you usually set it at?

Also how old do DC have to be before they can use a hot water bottle?

Now yank, here on the uk we happily flit between metric and imperial depending on the thing being measured.

For example, I buy milk in pints but butter in grams. Ask me how tall a person is and I'll tell you in feet and inches. Ask me to measure a piece of wood and I'll do it in metres.
Therefore a hot day is measured in F and a cold day in C.
So are you saying -7 in C?

Not sure if anyone has said this but when I lived in a flat with no heating other than little electric plug in heater I got a flanelette sheet and hung it over the door.
It stopped all the draft and kept the heat in.

Can you still get flanelette sheets?

Yes. :o -7 C, which is about 19 F I think. Not bad for November, but with the snow it just has such a damp chill to the air.