Yeah people who blanket are not cool...(sarcasm*). This article talks about benefits of lower temps. Im filing this for when I argue about office temps being too high. 50-60 would be just right. I used to ask people for a year.... Would you rather be too hot or too cold? most people said too hot until I got them thinking about it. From article: He does not turn on the heat in his Alabama home until the coldest days of winter, which at times means letting the indoor temperature dip into the 50s. And he has—most amazing, to me—trained himself to sleep without blankets. When he talks about the practice, he uses blanket as a verb, as in: People used to blanket because bedrooms had no heat. Now we heat bedrooms and we blanket. Even on the hottest nights, I feel like I need the weight of a blanket, or at least a sheet, to sleep. But like eating sweets or turning up the heat, he sees sheeting and blanketing as acquired habits that can be changed. He was able to wean himself from blankets gradually, by learning to sleep with them first folded down partway, and then folded further, and then, eventually, all the way down to his feet. Cold really isn’t that miserable, he insists, once you’ve gone through withdrawal and adapted to it. theatlantic/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/?single_page=true
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:07:02 +0000
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