Do you???

My maternal grandma had an old fashioned range on one wall of her quite small kitchen and when we stayed with her she warmed my clothes on the oven door.

When my own children were small their clothes were warmed each day on the fireguard in front of the woodstove in the morning and then PJs in the evening.
Hot water bottles in the beds before they went up.
When it was very, very cold we put an oil filled radiator upstairs in their room for an hour or two in which case the PJs went on that.

My mother used to air my clothes in front of the fire, but I think it was also to avoid damp.
How we forget these things.

Same here, shoes were lined up and Dad cleaned all the shoes to a good forces standard final polish with an old corduroy skirt of mine. So did my granddads in their houses.

My Mum also used to warm my undergarments in front of the fire when it was cold, bless her.

PJs on radiator. Even with heat on, I put a fan heater on top of the chest of drawers and dry in front of it after showering. It warms my back so much. Lovely.

My heating isn't on so putting clothes on the radiator would be pointless.

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benhamslc

I always put my PJ's on the radiator before bed time to warm up

So do I. Even with the heating on I feel so cold when I undress and it’s so nice to put on lovely warm pJs. Hot water bottle in the bed too.
I must get myself an electric blanket. Could someone recommend one please.

My daughter-in-law gave me her spare electric blanket last year. It is from Tesco and is warm and cosy. I always used a hot water bottle in the past.

My mother used to put my clothes to warm in front of the fire as well. We don't have central heating now but the cold doesn't bother me so straight on with the clothes.

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

Yes, same here 😠🤣

Mum used to put our school clothes on a clothes horse in front of open oven door….as the one coal fire wasn’t lit till the evening as everybody was either at school or work ! And I’m evenin I remember mum filling out 4 hot water bottles and tucking them in our 4 beds ….while we were eating the crumpets and drinking cocoa from our ‘ovalteenies ‘ mugs! Couldn’t affor ovaltine to out in the mugs ….but we were all members of the ‘Ovalteeny’ gang!

benhamslc

I always put my PJ's on the radiator before bed time to warm up

So do I. Even with the heating on I feel so cold when I undress and it’s so nice to put on lovely warm pJs. Hot water bottle in the bed too.
I must get myself an electric blanket. Could someone recommend one please.

I don't think radiators had reached Cumbrerland when I was little. Rayburns and Agas yes, but we didn't have one we were "modern" with an all-night burner fire that went out and the gas poker had to be stuck in to revive it, the house smelt like a gas chamber. Breakfast in front of the fire, milk that had to have the ice broken on the top for cereals.
Clothes warmed on the fire guard ,vest, liberty bodice, knickers with a pocket that had tight elastic in the legs that nearly stopped your blood supply, petticoat, home knitted twin set and those awful brown woolly knee socks held up with garters.
I liked my dad to dress me he was less rough than my mum.
I wasn't a very good child and decided one morning when he wasn't there I wasn't going to school. I sat with my feet in the back of a chair and as I was pulling my socks on I fell off and broke my collarbone. My father had to be brought and he carried me to the Dr's.
My mum was in trouble because a few months earlier I got under the Belfast sink to avoid school and as she pulled me out I split my head open on the brackets. When asked at the hospital I told the truth. Today I think I might have been put on the "At risk ", register when really it was my stubborn will against my mothers.

I was another see to myself child. The kitchen was an ice box and if I was feeling particularly daring, I would light the gas ring on the stove to warm my hands.

I don't have the central heating on before I leave for work so no cosy clothes for me. Cosy kitchen though with my kickboard heater.

Dressed next to the Aga as a child.
Mum or Dad put my school clothes over the rail every morning till I was way too old for it!

PJs went over the rail in the evening too.

I was very lucky.
Happy days.

No home comforts for me in my childhood, and parents so dis-interested in their children, we had to sort ourselves out. I remember one particularly cold winter, inches of snow, me dithering in short socks, summer shoes and barely-there coat, being sent back home by the milk-man!! I was blue with cold and could barely speak, my brother hardly much better, so back home we went.... to sit round a 2-bar electric fire!

No radiators in my house, so no I don’t but getting dressed after I get out of a hot shower is fine

My mum brought me a cup of tea in bed and passed me my clothes, to warm in the bed, then get dressed in bed! It was a cold house - the ‘heat’ in my room was supposed to come up from the living room below. I remember frost patterns inside the windows.

I put my husband s tee shirt on the Aga for him before he goes to bed But he never returns the favour for me. So wrapped up in himself and thinks of nobody.!!!!!

Our clothes were warmed on the fireguard round the Rayburn too - the ironing was aired there as well, and my sister's nappies dried there and on the clothes line strung along the high mantelshelf above the Rayburn.

I had a pure white cat when I was little - she slept alongside the Rayburn squeezing past the coal buckets to do so, and one cold winter singed her fur so she had a yellow patch down one flank!

I keep my cycling gloves on the wash-kitchen radiator and dry shoes there too, and the heating is assuredly on, and the log-burner lit at 2 in the afternoon in these damp raw days.

I don't know about putting on cold clothes I hate sitting on a cold loo seat! My downstairs loo is in an unheated part of the house and if i've left it a bit late to climb the stairs to a warmer loo (and seat) I dread my b*m reaching the freezing seat!!

When I was a little girl, there was no central heating at all, but there was a range in the kitchen with a side oven and a metal rail in the front. We used to rush down in our dressing gowns after a very hasty trip to the bathroom with ice feathers on the INSIDE of the windows. Then sat down having our breakfast, usually porridge in the winter, followed by putting on our clothes that had been warming on the rail, and of course our well polished with Cherry Blossom shoe polish, shoes to keep the water out of our sox etc. I think I have told the tale, never to be forgotten of the occasion when my mother had done all the ironing and put the clothes in the airing cupboard the night before, so that day when I came down no knickers on the rail, but she said get dressed and I will go and get them in a minute. So when I set off to school, in charge of younger sister , once I realized I had forgotten to get the clean pants I was stuck between going to school without any, or being late and making my sister late. I went to school and prayed that we wouldnt go out to do any games or gymn in the playground!! survived the day ok but it was never forgotten in the family. Can remember the feeling more than 70 years ago!! What could beat arriving home on a horrid wet dark afternoon, to get wet things off and to sit toasting our face and hand as well as the pikelets round the fire. Hot pikelets with a lot of butter on and lovely home grown celery with salt. Often with the smell of either ironing, or baking which my mother would have done all afternoon. Safety and warmth and childrens hour on the radio at 5 o clock. Ah a long time ago

When I was a child I used to sleep with my underwear and socks under my pillow to keep them warm. Now I leave next day's underwear and clothes hanging in the airing cupboard overnight. Before I go to bed I wrap my nightie round my hot water bottle. Can't bear putting on cold clothes.

Same here x

I always put my PJ's on the radiator before bed time to warm up