Consider Plan B during the cold season

Consider Plan B during the cold season

       Plan A is just to turn up the thermostat to heat your abode to your satisfaction. That idea includes setting  the hot water thermostat, too. 

            Years ago I read that about 30% of our energy costs go to heating our water to make us happy when bathing, and even food cleaning some, too.

            Plan B is just to put on more clothes to keep warm, and then add more or remove more as makes sense to get through the day, or really whatever time period and circumstance, like just doing physical work, or going to an office.  Like what is wrong with sleeping bags, for example?  Even I know how to phoo phoo them up with aromas, like lavender, an idea used as recently as WWI. Of course, adjusting one's standards helps in many cases, too.

            I'll always remember a student at Georgia Tech in the 1980's complaining about her Boston father telling his kids to put on more clothes to keep warm as he sought to pay the cold season energy bills, and keep the pipes from freezing, too. She did not like it.

            I'll always also remember talking to a gal from Cabela's years ago. She and her Family lived in Nebraska on a farm type place. Anyway, her daughter had to go out to the barn at least once a day to chop the frozen water in the horse water trough (electrically heated to boot). Usually the kid had to deal with like up to 12 inches (30 Cm) of ice. Of course, this was the cold season speaking.

            Even in my time in my own past, I have lived in many places where warmth in water and abode were luxuries to be appreciated during the cold season, especially.  This even applied to my time in Istanbul, for example.  And this example was decades ago. There's nothing like a luke-cold bidet spray on one's bottom to provide an attitude adjustment, at least it did for me. And his was in a hotel, like the number three hotel in the city, to boot.