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Know how you feel! My Mum heated my school clothes on a clothes horse around the fire. She also put our shoes on the hearth to warm.

Looks like our Mums all had the same idea - were ' nt we lucky!?

I was often ill as a child and often had a paraffin heater in my room. I signed several vests before it was removed, warming them on the top! ( Not sure how healthy a paraffin heater would have been!)

we didn't have central heating when I was young so my dad would lay out a fire before going to bed. Then light it in the morning whilst mum made us a full breakfast including porridge.. such caring parents.. most of us have it so easy now

Just done that very thing for DGD who slept at ours last night. She was off to netball at 9.00am and I'd put her hoodie on the radiator. She was thrilled and said it was like getting in a sauna 😄
I have memories of running in from school and standing in front of the coal fire, lifting up my school skirt to warm my freezing legs, first at the front then turning round to do the back of my legs. That house was blummin' freezing, thank God for central heating 🙄

Me too Curly but on Mondays it was impossible to get near the fire, for a three sided clothes horse full of drying laundry?

No radiators on yet so no warming clothes.

My grandchildren love it when I warm their towels on the heated bathroom rail to wrap themselves in after a bath or shower. Small, cosy pleasures.

My mother did it too and this morning so did I!

Never have heating on in the morning

DH puts his pants on the radiator , but me …no

The radiator is very rarely on in the bedroom. The bath towels are on a heated towel rail, though.

Yes, my Mum used to warm my clothes on the fire guard and I used to do it for the DC

What lovely memories this thread evokes, travelsfar

Primrose53

Know how you feel! My Mum heated my school clothes on a clothes horse around the fire. She also put our shoes on the hearth to warm.

My Dad used to polish my shoes and fill a hot water bottle for me.

I was most surprised when I got married and realised not all men cleaned the family's shoes 🤔

We didnt have central heating at home when was a child. But we did have a coal fire with little doors. A Rayburn? And that kept the sitting room very hot and a small coal fire in the kitchen. On the kitchen fire guard we would hang our clothes to warm and I suppose we got dressed in the kitchen. A dear little liberty bodice kept me warm. Long socks and a wool tunic and thick cotton blouse with a wool cardi or jumper. Our 4 classrooms at our junior school all had open fires. I don't think anyone got burnt. We were used to open fires and took care.

What a lovely thing to say about your parents Pascal.

My mum used to put the oven on and hang our clothes over the oven door in the morning.
I can still remember the smell of our hot water bottles when the hot water was poured in at night. We had a lovely mum and always felt loved

No central heating on yet but I do dress quickly in front of a fan heater straight after shower. Lovely.

My Mum had three female Siamese cats who took turns to get pregnant. The kitchen had a long fireguard round a Rayburn range. On cold days the fireguard was festooned with sleepy kittens warming their tummies.

Bless your heart. My mum used to do the same for me and my sister, it was, as you say, so good to put on lovely warm clothes! I miss my mum too, but thank you for this lovely memory.

My mum would never have dreamt of doing that! I basically looked after myself.

I remember we had an airing Cupboard, clothes put in night before, toasty and warm next morning as much as we hated them a warm liberty bodice was lovely, toasty, then out into the sometimes freezing rain, snow whatever, no trousers allowed for girls we wore knee high socks albeit woolly ones, laceup shoes, cold knees and thighs, and the ubiquitous unisex navy gaberdine raincoats, they were warmm but not very flattering, had no hood so we had school hats. lol

My mum used to warm our clothes in front of the fire, she also used to warm out pyjamas but I hated warm pjs so I used to take them to the bedroom and flap them out the window before I put them on.

Gosh. You all had kind mothers. It wouldn't have occurred to mine to do such a thing.

Same here! Fernhillnana

Lovely to have childhood memories awakened. Pyjamas warmed on the fireguard, in winter vest, blouse etc placed between blankets and eiderdown so they were warm enough to put on (in unheated bedroom of course). We were obviously little Spartans.