There are times when we are reading the history books that I often wonder “how did they do it?” I have become so accustomed to the luxuries of life in the modern age that I wonder how our ancestors survived without the simple things I take for granted everyday!
Things such as indoor heating!
I know it seems silly but there are days when it is so blistering cold that I wonder how anyone could survive without heat, but somehow they did. In fact, I was so curious as to how they did it I had to find out.
The things I found out were, interesting to say the least. So Check out these 8 ways that they managed to stay warm on the next page.
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Non of those are odd, heard of all done a few.. also head bricks and wrap in wool patches and line your bed with them along your body under the blankets
These are all practical and smart, not odd.
Cut open a tauntaun
Common sense is rare these days it would seem
Nothing weird about this, Another click and bate story. I should’ve read the comments first.
I”m 66 years old and my mom did these very things to keep me and my sisters from freezing when we were babies and toddlers. We are all still alive and never had inside heat in our home when we were young.
I remember putting old magazines on the woodstove, then putting them between the sheets before bedtime.
My goals are to live like my great great grandparents! I’m well on my way! Debt free, organic and nonGMO, mostly self sufficient. So simple, so blessed.
Wow- I do some of these!
I agree, used those techniques in my Grandmothers house in the country with only wood burning stoves. My mother says they used the brick routine nightly!
I agree, used those techniques in my Grandmothers house in the country with only wood burning stoves. My mother says they used the brick routine nightly!
None of those sounded wired to me. My grandmother mentioned putting hot bricks in the bed.
Nothing odd… minus the lack of grammar and spell check.
Not so weird.
Barbara Davis
Before my time
1. The “grate.” Homeowners would cut a hole between the first and second floor and insert a grate that would allow the hot air from below to rise into the second floor.
2. The hot-bed pan. Another solution was to take hot coals from the fire and insert them into a covered pan on the end of a long wooden handle and rub it over a mattress before sleeping.
3. The “nightcap.” If you’ve ever slept in a cold tent during winter, then you know the need for a “nightcap.” This was a head covering that could be a knitted cap or, in Artic climates, a fur cap.
4. Layers on layers of insulation. Layering is a common concept for anyone in winter, and layers of sheets, blankets and quilts made a sleeping arrangement warm and warmer.
#5 ever hear of “3 dog night” ya, its a rock band but first it was an old Alaskan saying to describe how cold it was.
We would have so many quilts on us, that we could barely turn over..also mother would take the round lid from the wood cook stove ,and wrap in newspapers and put it in bed with us..sure felt good..
Nothing unusual here.
stupid article
Interesting facts. Thanks you.
Very interesting
Family bed was extremely popular. .. some houses were built on stilts and closed off to the elements at the base, and then the farm animals were kept “under” the house (cow, horse, sheep, goat, etc.. ) their radiant body heat would help warm the floor, and the house.
Missing one very effective way — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oven
Elizabeth Fry
When I was a child in the 70s my dad cut a hole in the floor to allow more heat from the fire upstairs. That didn’t seem weird to me.
They also used to heat bricks and place them underneath the covers at the foot of the bed.