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kitty - 2010-01-24 14:51:31
In that NYT story, did you notice that so many of the people ostensibly living 'without heat' in fact heated with wood? I grew up in a historic home with a woodstove - when the fire was going, it would be quite warm in the den, but chilly in the rest of the house. When the fire was out, the house was cold. This seems normal to me, not at all noteworthy. Realizing that my husband believed it was normal to wear a t-shirt indoors in the winter was really bizarre.
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Poolie - 2010-01-24 15:50:32
And fortunately, nobody ever loved me for just my gas either. Sorry, but it was how you said it that made me howl!
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Stephanie - 2010-01-24 16:45:42
Ballroom dancing! What fun! And I'm so glad to hear that you and Mick are getting back on track. Hurray!
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purple chai - 2010-01-24 16:58:39
If my husband lived alone, I have no doubt that he would live without heat. Also furniture and electricity, if he could manage it, and also no car. He's not cheap (although he's frugal.) He doesn't want to "use resources", as he puts it. Ach.
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stepfordtart - 2010-01-24 17:47:22
pretty much everyone I know lived in a 'house without heat' when they were kids - even when I was first married to Shagnasty, our house had just one fireplace, on which we burned everything that we could put a match too. An electric blanket for the bed and learning to pee REAL quick were pretty much all we needed. That and thick socks! Having said that, it does seem a bit cheap nowadays. I had a boyfriend once who used to come to our house to take a poop. Maybe he was on a toilet paper economy drive!! DIS-GUS-TING!!! s x
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beanie - 2010-01-24 23:58:24
OK, so I live without heat, but it's not like it actually gets that cold here. Were I to have heat, I would likely only use it on days when it's rainy, just to get the dampness out of the house.
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dichroic - 2010-01-25 04:44:54
Oh, good. I did think you two had something fundamentally sound, and I'm glad to get that confirmed. Relationships are a sine wave, and sometimes all you can do is endure the down side. (Caveat: This applies only to non-abusive relationships where the upside is worth it. In abusive relationships the ups may be way up but the downs are too far down to be balanced by anything.)
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terri t - 2010-01-25 17:36:15
Glad to hear that you two are talking it through again. It takes two people willing to compromise...as you know so well. Sometimes it is hard for our old dogs (husbands) to learn new tricks... Congrats on the dancing lessons...bet you will be the talk of the dance floor too.
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Lorrie - 2010-01-25 19:27:26
purple chai, I'm not noble, just newly unemployed, and I'd happily cut our thermostat down to 50 and cancel cable, but I'd also cancel my husband living with me. So we compromise. All year we quietly tiptoe down the hall adjusting the thermostat to our particular tastes. I hope I secure my disability income by summer when the A/C battles get REALLY nasty. Y'see I grew up in South Carolina with no A/C and don't mind steaming heat and dh grew up in Michigan.
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