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Interesting article about people who choose not to heat their homes in winter:
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SERIOUS cold, Justen Ladda said, is when the sponge in the kitchen sink feels like wood or the toothpaste freezes or the refrigerator turns itself off, as it did one particularly frigid day last winter. Not that Mr. Ladda, a 56-year-old sculptor who has lived heat-free in his Lower East Side loft for three decades, is bothered by such extremes. “Winter comes and goes,” he’ll tell you blithely, adjusting his black wool scarf and watch cap. (Along with fingerless gloves, long underwear and felt slippers, they are part of Mr. Ladda’s at-home uniform when the mercury dips.)
Interesting... and frightening at the same time. (and I thought southern Australia and New Zealand was bad )
One person said they like a 20 F (-7 C) house because they find it liberating that their only concern is "getting warm."
Without heavy-excersize, my only concern is getting warm is when it's 63 F (17 C) or less indoors.
To save money on energy or for an exhilarating life-experience,
I would rather attempt living in a house that's perpetually uncooled to 90 F (32 C)... maybe 100 F (38 C) even.
Once I visited someone's apparentment without A/C and it was 89 F inside; a little gross, but overall "not bad."
Last edited by ColdCanadian; 01-24-2010 at 12:35 PM..
lol I can't stand it when it's 90 outside, 80 degrees indoors, and I'm trying to sleep. Because most of the houses in our area don't have A/C, its hard to get comfortable on hot summer days. Fortunately the heat never lasts too long
Read the article, and I can't stand the holier than thou type attitudes of such people, clearly thinking they are superior to everyone else, especially regarding comments such as "we didn't evolve site in a chair in a temperature controlled environment" and other such bull.
I couldn't care a whiz of the whys and the wherefores of living in frigid houses and never using heating, so if I ever want to rid myself of needing heating I would sooner bugger off to the tropics when I am rich enough.
To save money on energy or for an exhilarating life-experience,
I would rather attempt living in a house that's perpetually uncooled to 90 F (32 C)... maybe 100 F (38 C) even.
Once I visited someone's apparentment without A/C and it was 89 F inside; a little gross, but overall "not bad."
Man, I'd never be able to fall asleep in a house that warm! Not sure I could sleep in one that was 20F either, though.
Man, I'd never be able to fall asleep in a house that warm! Not sure I could sleep in one that was 20F either, though.
Dunno how I'd handle 90 F indoors all the time, but I slept easily under a comforter with 82 F and 82% humidity indoors.
If I'm even barely not breaking a sweat, I sleep soundly.
(perhaps because even sub-consciously I'm content with "not being cold" )
Thanks for sharing that article and I'll stop complaining about my house with 4" walls, no insulation and rather hard to heat when it is windy out! Fortunately, I don't like warm houses or I'd be in trouble!
I sleep with my house around 60 at night in the winter, and I'm lucky it doesn't get overly warm here in summer so I don't have to worry about my house being too warm to sleep.
I sleep with my house around 60 at night in the winter, and I'm lucky it doesn't get overly warm here in summer so I don't have to worry about my house being too warm to sleep.
^ Brrr...
A tropical-greenhouse would be my ideal living quarters,
though maybe with a tad less humidity so electronic items don't rust or apolstry go moldy.
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(and I thought southern Australia and New Zealand was bad 
