Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves

Yes, agree @PiP, it doesn't feel chilly enough to spaff actual funds on heating yet. I think we're still at the 'putting on an extra layer' stage atm, which is good from a bills perspective. We still have the summer duvet on the bed with a single blanket until the end of the month. Can't bear being too hot in bed. Mr F is like a central heating boiler in man-form.
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PennysIntoPounds

I tend to add more and more layers until I look like the Michelin Man and can't actually move properly before I contemplate giving any of our pounds to the grubby energy companies!
Mr PIP is also a man-radiator so the start of winter has officially arrived when he puts jeans on instead of shorts 😁
He's still in shorts, I have started wearing fingerless gloves if we're outside early evening 

amber03

Me and DH went out for a walk to the coast today, weather was beautiful blue skies and lovely and warm. Saw quite a few men still clinging on to wearing shorts. Whilst I had gone out with a scarf and hat in my rucksack in case it got too chilly.

kayannie

What is it about men? We live on the coast & holiday makers in particular walk along our lane. On a warm day, both sexes are often in shorts. On a cold or wet day, the women are dressed for the weather, but the men are usually still in their shorts, even if they are wearing a hat or waterproof jacket.
KA

daisy_1571

Always find shorts and jacket combo a bit weird lol

joedenise

kayannie said:

What is it about men? We live on the coast & holiday makers in particular walk along our lane. On a warm day, both sexes are often in shorts. On a cold or wet day, the women are dressed for the weather, but the men are usually still in their shorts, even if they are wearing a hat or waterproof jacket.
KA

My DH always says it's better and easier to dry his legs than sit around in wet trousers!

Cheery_Daff

We've got the heating on for a couple of hours in the evening some nights now. It was 12 degrees in our kitchen when I came home from work on Monday 😬 We didn't put the heating on that night, but when I got into bed (with 2 hot water bottles) it was like being a kid, the sheets were freezing and I didn't want to take my dressing gown off 🥶

I don't see a need for unnecessarily suffering if we can afford to pay, so when I came in yesterday and it was 12 degrees again, the heating went on. (We are an old farmhouse on top of an exposed hill so it's often more chilly than in a town up here!)

We only turn the thermostat to 16 degrees or Mr Cheery is too hot 🙄 so I've still usually got several layers and am surgically attached to a hot water bottle 😬 

We don't leave it on overnight though (an old habit, stemming from the fact that the boiler in our old house didn't have a thermostat 😂) so it's usually quite chilly getting up in the morning 🥶

rtandon27

We've not yet put on the central heating, but as the laundry is now being finished off inside, we do have the dehu running for quite a few hours at a time which warms the air in the coldest part of the house.  We also have a space heater which has been on two evenings in a row in the main room.  This is enough to keep the bedroom at a decent temp, but it still gets too warm by 3-4 am and I end up popping the window open to cool it down!  Guess it's time to book the annual boiler service!

badmemory

Are you sure the men wearing shorts in winter aren't postmen.  That way they get easy to dry off legs rather than being in wet trousers.

EssexHebridean

MrEH will be one of the non-postmen wearing shorts in all weathers! He agrees about it being easier to dry legs! 

I'm resisting putting on heating at the moment too - but note it was the end of September last year, and as we've had two frosts already, we may be on for a repeat of that!