Creative ways to stay warm on cold winter nights?

Question

It was so cold in our little cabin in Alaska tonite and we were to lazy to chop wood so we just burned boxes and paper plates you know.

Answer 1

Kitchen furniture works good too, as do boxes of cereal and fluffy, down-filled overcoats. After you've burned your shoes and boots, the moose head off the wall should provide for a few hours of toasty entertainment.

Of course, the more sensible thing to do is, get out there and chop wood, Lazy!

Answer 2

there used to be a thing called a log roller, essentially, it rolls up a newspaper tightly, you put some kind of wire on it to hold it, then it burns like logs. You can do it by hand, of course. Also you can wet the papers, roll them up and allow them to dry, when they dry you have a log again. You can also burn used motor oil, but make sure that you have a good chimney. a paper dipped in th oil and sticking out a bit works like a wick on a candle. same goes for used cooking grease. plan on cleaning the chimney often though. Seems to me, you should get the place insualted up better, and put one or more of the devices in that scavenge heat from the exhaust of the fire. always make sure you have a source of incoming air for the fire. The easiest way to do that is use the double walled metal chimney pipes that allow incoming air to be drawn to the fire through the outside of the pipe, while the exhaust gasses go up the center one. this has the benefit of warming the incoming air. But man, if you are going to stay there, fix up the cabin so it is well insulated and warm. the less heat you have to make, the better off you will be.

Answer 3

I know how it feels to not want to get more wood. My house is warmed by a wood burner too. The best solution I have found is to buy a little stand up oil filled room heater (about $30.) and keep it on constantly in the bedroom with the door closed. It doesn't use too much electricity and does the job.

Answer 4

First of all and with no vulgar intent, another 98.6 degree body, close, works wonders.

I have no clue if this is even legal, or if pelts are sold, but CARIBOU is the best animal fur, and above any FABRIC items for warmth in your area of farther North. Cairbou hair is cellular, (Air Pockets Kinda) in each strand and makes an excellent insulator for them certainly, and also when used by Inuits, etc, for blanket type bedding.

Steven Wolf

Answer 5

nicely... as an insomniac for the reason that approximately age a million, i've got not got any foolproof solutions, yet I did detect that as quickly as I bumped off ALL sugar and caffeine from my nutrition recurring, chilly turkey, it became into this variety of ask your self on my device that i began out to experience drained tremendously at as quickly as. and that i stumbled on that if i flow to sleep whilst the drain starts off to hit, I also have a much greater valuable danger of snoozing than if I positioned if off to a greater suited 'time' of nighttime. of direction, that did no longer mean I have been given to sleep all nighttime ... so i'm undecided it rather mattered interior the tip. when I get rather desperate, I grab some tylenol PM and tension the subject - yet I basically do this 2 or three times a year.

Answer 6

I'll vouch for the stone heaters to put in the foot of the bed - but lemme tell ya, its a real bear getting out of bed in the morning! Brrr!
In which case, a better question might be, what is a creative way to get your sleeping partner to warm it up in the morning.

Answer 7

i keep two old cashmere sweaters handy and a pair of knitted cashmere pants that are two sizes too big .... i put ona set of tights; my cashmere pants, and the two cashmere sweaters; and cuddle up under two comforters and am nice a toasty;
it was down to 19 degrees and i felt just great without the heater on.

Answer 8

Pick up a couple of soap stone warmers (You can find them on ebay)
After heating them over the fire, wrap them in cloth and keep it under the blankets with you. (These were used in wagons and coaches in the olden days) we heat ours on the woodstove and they hold the heat for most of the night!

Answer 9

Alaska???Brrrrrrrrrrrr...Here in Carolina...we...
Git buck nekkid...
git under them covers..
have a drink or 4..whatevers available works..
git that ol' warm and fuzzy feelin...

And i sure hope y'all do that in Alaska..

Answer 10

put rocks on your woodstove and then put them in your bed.. warms up you bed quite nicely.. I have done this. and I live in Yukon