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Oh, I've been wrapping myself in a huge grey diaper and reading.

Yay, it's the Slanket! I'm wrapped up in my makeshift Slanket with a heating pad and an IKEA fleece blanket I bought "for the cats."

Canadian... -20C today (-4F) with wind chill...

Been staying warm with a pot o tea, slippers and a lap cat. The classic hot water bottle works, too.

Baking bread does wonders for a chilly day.

close the windows, close the blinds, put on some thick socks and have some tea! :) it does the trick for me.

oh, another thing is if you turn on the lights it also psychologically warms things up a bit

In my uninsulated PNW house, it's all about the family bed.

A couple months ago, I finally succeeded in getting my 4 year old to sleep in his own bed consistently, all night long.

Then it got real cold.

I can't undo all that hard work and let him back in my bed... so I joined him. Now it's the 2 of us snuggled up in his twin loft bed, with the dog underneath. Pretty hilarious, but this way I only have to heat one room at night, and it's the room with the fewest windows and exterior walls.

Also, my big xmas gift was the heated area rug, which I learned about here on AT. It is a godsend on my freezing laminate floor!

I wear a knit hat, like, all day. Indoors and out. It's not doing anything for my hair, but it keeps me warm. And slippers. Must have slippers.

Heated tables! A Japanese friend of mine gave me a kotatsu, which is a low table with a small heater underneath. Drape a blanket on top and its snugly warm leg time. For bedtime its an electric blanket. And maybe next year we'll install a heater. I never realized how spoiled I was with central heating growing up (I live in Southern California).

I put the "sleeping pill" on my bed. This is a wool throw from Norway that every time I cover myself with it, I fall asleep. I learned about this from my sister who bought a mohair one when she was in Scandinavia and then gave it to our mom. Every time we used it at mom's we zonked out. So I had to get one--mine's not as fluffy, but works just as well. Comfy!

Lands' End's HeatComfort Mattress Pad has made cold nights exponentially more comfortable for me...haven't climbed into a cold bed in more than a year.

And it makes rainy afternoon naps almost impossible to wake up from!