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Old 12-13-2009, 08:05 PM   #12 (permalink)
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If I lived on my own, I'd just put more clothes on. Unfortunately for my heating bills (which I don't pay), I life with my wife, who's a 70 or nothing girl, and my Son, who's only 6 months old. I *have* to keep the temps high enough to maintain his body temp, at least.

I turn the heat down any time we're gone for more than a couple hours, though.

I lived though the winter in a crappy old travel trailer in my dad's yard... I had a kerosene heater that I had to learn to P&G the heat from. I used to heat my pillow up on top of it, heat the area under the bed, and heat up water jugs that were filled with salt and had just enough water to make it fluid.

Put the water jugs in bed with you, cover up nice and tight, and turn the heater off.

I made it all winter on around 15 gallons of kerosene.
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