• Getting Ready For Winter - a How to Guide
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[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/2ljkcx4.jpg[/IMG] Tuesday's coming -- did you bring your coat? ------------------------------------------- Soon, the leaves will turn completely and fall from the branches like, well... leaves. The trees will be bare and the ground will be covered in snow, and I can almost gaurantee YOU (yes you) will be caught out in the cold without ample winter gear. You will be uncomfortable, numb, and it will be hard for you to concentrate, talk, or stand still for that matter (as you will be shivering violently). The obvious solution is to buy winter gear. However, who the hell has money for shit like that these days? You could just throw on more clothes, but any more than two t-shirts and a sweater and you risk looking like an idiot (and cutting off blood circulation if you're skinny like me.. Yes, it happens.) So what the hell can you do? I have answer to this. Perception condition. Change your perception of the cold. People in Russia sure don't bundle up when it's 50 degrees outside, but they're human beings just like us. How is this possible? Well, they're used to it, so this is what you're going to do (now I'm commanding you, don't you feel like a sheep.) Take the time to do this now, while the weather is still halfway decent, and it's not fucking snowing on your ass. Get yourself used to, and hardened to the cold, so you won't have to waste extra money on clothes and thermal pads, and you'll actually feel like going outside to do stuff. I'll break it down into stages, because some of the stuff is kind of extreme. Stage 1: Force yourself to go outside and do stuff Keep your house at 64 degrees, rather than what is comfortable. Wear light summer clothing indoors. Stage 2: Go outside with one less degree of warm gear. Say if you need a coat, wear a sweater, if you need a sweater, wear a hoodie, and so on and so forth. Turn off your heating completely. Continue to wear light summer clothing indoors. Stage 3: Wear light summer clothes, with maybe a hoodie outside. Don't wear clothing, or just faff about in your underwear indoors. Stage 4: (This is where it gets hard, but you should be ready by now) Walk around outside without a shirt on (if you can pull it off) Walk around outside barefoot. Get your body used to feeling numb. Stage 5: (When it actually snows) Try to see how long you can walk around barefoot in the snow. Trust me, you'll build up an endurance. Lay down in the snow, see how long you can do that (surprisingly long, actually) Any other ideas?
Thanks for this, I'll be sure to try this out. I might have some problems with the "Force yourself to go outside and do stuff" step though.
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[QUOTE=Thomo;18259049]Get leather gloves not wool for snow, because snow sticks to the wool and it eventually gets soaked.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, no brainer there. People forget that wool is a good -liner- for gloves. Leather's not very good at insulation, but it does keep your hands waterproof and wind resistant.
[QUOTE=Subhazardman;18259019] However, who the hell has money for shit like that these days?[/QUOTE] Or, you know, you can just be not a retard and use the winter clothes you had before.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;18259242]Or, you know, you can just be not a retard and use the winter clothes you had before.[/QUOTE] I don't hold on to material possessions very well. I lose things.
I just wear jeans, t-shirt and a trechcoat no matter what the weather and my body tempreture never seems to change. I's cool like that.
Do people really need instructions for winter? I mean isn't it pretty natural? Here snowed this week and winter is literally on my door. Also 1 really good tip. When it's really cold don't stand around do something to generate heat.
[QUOTE=Deadollie;18259284]I just wear jeans, t-shirt and a trechcoat no matter what the weather and my body tempreture never seems to change. I's cool like that.[/QUOTE] Are you a crocodile?
If you don't turn on your heating you pipes WILL freeze.
Tee-shirt, shirt, double hoodies, coat Lost pressure in our central heating on friday, brr
I don't need this i hibernate during the winter, thanks anyway.
Since when did people need a guide for the winter?
I will be running late at night in just a shirt
[QUOTE=j-richardson;18259538]I will be running late at night in just a shirt[/QUOTE] have fun with your public indecency charge.
Too bad I have Raynaud's disease, my extremities have very little blood flow when it is near enough freezing point. So I have to wear gloves etc.
I love winter. Whilst everyone else around me is complaining, I'm going: "CRY SOM MOAR".
[QUOTE=AwpersAreBad;18259060][img]http://www.n2overstock.com/recipes/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Hot-Cocoa.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3840/batmanq.png[/img] [editline]09:59AM[/editline] yummy
me and my brother always of contests in the winter to see who can lie down in the snow the longest with shorts and a t-shirt on only... and, we're going away, so it's one less month of snow for me :) and i live in canada, so it's fucking cold up here in the winter
How to make it through the winter alive: - Change to winter tyres on the car. [editline]woop[/editline] "Tyres" isn't a misspelling.
Winter and fall are the easiest times for me, i'm just used to the cold. Oh, these are just dumb ideas that will leave you sick for the holidays.
Winter is by far the best season.
I went out in a t-shirt and shorts (Of course shoes as well) It was kinda cold, but I got used to it, then it was awesome walking around town covered in snow looking at the reactions of people in full on winter gear. here's a tip: BREATHE THROUGH YOUR NOSE , If you do, the incoming air is warmed by the blood vessels in your nose.
[QUOTE=Subhazardman;18259019]Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3: Stage 4: (This is where it gets hard, but you should be ready by now) Stage 5: (When it actually snows)[/QUOTE] Nice how-to suffer and possiblty get small frostbites on your feet guide. The best way to get ready for the winter is simply don't wear hot clothes when you're cold, THAT'S it. Time will do its thing (mostly your "internal body time")
Too bad I am on the south hemisphere. Otherwise.... ehmmm.... Good guide?
Stop de-railing the thread.
Why the hell would anyone want to walk in snow barefoot? That shit's dangerous...
It's been winter here for a month. Rated late.
What happens in summer? Strip naked whilst in the house?
[QUOTE=Jonnerz3D;18260495]What happens in summer? Strip naked whilst in the house?[/QUOTE] no thats when you build tolerance for the heat by wearing as much clothing as you can without suffocating
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