How are you coping with this cold snap?

I hated the fact that when I moved I could only have electric, but wherever I looked houses or flats for older people they seem to think we were incapable of sorting things out for ourselves despite having lived longer than most of them already!

So stuck with electric - which now has gone up in price even more. I chose to have individual electric radiators rather than central heating. This has allowed me to set them up individually and so I save as much money as I can by setting them up for each room I use. My bedroom I only have on for an hour before I usually go to bed, the hall one on much more as that is where the outside door is and the colder area etc. My bathroom radiator I close the door and put it on before I go for a shower to warm the room up. So keep it down as much as possible, but have a draught excluder against the outside door, keep curtains shut in the bedroom for most of the time at the moment, the lounge curtains only open once the day has warmed up. I wear my polar long johns under my trousers and my very old but still warm cashmere jumpers and put a fleece blanket round my legs when sitting around.

Due to my problems with back and legs I cant walk anywhere near as much as I used to be able to so feel the cold a lot more. I have a hefty polar jacket with a hood that I use when out on the yellow peril, but even with good warm trousers and long johns I do tend to feel the cold in my legs and feet as I am sat on the buggy, and cant walk quickly enough these days to get warm.

So bit of a beggar these days, and I try to do two or three things on one trip, go to a meeting and get bread and vegetables on the way back, and then stay in and not have to g o out for a couple of days. So any time we get a reasonable day at this time of year, I leave any nonessential tasks and get out while I can, and make the most of it. Then choose to do jobs that keep me warm , so yesterday got quite a lot of ironing done , so killing two birds with one stone. Clean and ironed things to wear and got quite warm doing the ironing!

Certainly a very cold snap heating has been running all day so house kept warm. Had to go out this morning my car will usually clear ice pretty quickly if I leave it running a while but extra effort to clear snow of first.
We have a beautiful new porcelain patio which is very smooth and can be a mini ice rink so having to be careful on that, told DH to keep off it I am much more agile than him

When I bought this place from the Housing Association I had an extra radiator installed in the living room which had always been insufficiently heated. I keep the heating bill manageable by wearing multiple layers and directing the heating to the living room during the day. The rest of the house is unheated during the day (except if I am having a bath when I put the bathroom radiator on). If it is sub zero and especially if I am poorly like I am now, I put the bedroom radiator on an hour before I go to bed and fix the timer to give heat a couple of times during the early hours to stop it dropping too low in the bedroom.

I have pretty good windows with good curtains and make them better by sticking bubble wrap inside the glass during the colder months. I am always careful with power useage so can "splash out" when necessary in the winter without worrying. Mind you, the unheated North facing kitchen and toilet can be a nasty shock to the system when I leave my warm living room nest!

I like to grab a blanket whenever I sit down too. Such a cosy feeling when you can see the garden silvered in frost. I don't like a warm bedroom though, so have taken to wearing a hoody when sat reading in bed, may need fingerless gloves tonight!

Heating on except at night when the electric blanket goes on. But we live in an old cold house and we still sit with blankets and hot water bottles.

I have a heated throw. My DH doesn't feel the cold as much as I so I use it when we are watching tv.

House toasty thanks to underfloor heating.

Did an hours route march around the village it was cold, dry and exhilarating.

I've come to bed with the electric blanket on. It's very cold here

First off, we have the heating on as we need it on. I budget for it by putting money in a separate bank account all year round. We keep doors closed and wear warm layers. I get cold easily as I can’t move about to warm myself up.