My DS says I'm old and eccentric

Baggs

I think my response to such a son comment would be along the lines of, well you're young and silly.

Couldn't agree with you more. Through millenia we've worn clothes to match the weather and seasons, what is happening now is so ridiculous, expensive, very eco-wasteful and unhealthy. I sleep with the window open all year, with an old fashioned feather eiderdown (Oxfam, £3!) on the duvet. Hot water bottle for my feet and job's a good un.

trying to wear a school mac over a blazer

Oh, Katek that brought back memories!
A vest, blouse, tie, pleated gym slip, cardigan, blazer topped by a reefer coat with school scarf and velour hat.
We must have looked like Teletubbies!

How on earth do those of you wearing multiple layers move? I have visions of you like Maggie Simpson in her famous snowsuit or trying to wear a school mac over a blazer. The word 'thick' keeps popping up on this thread but you're actually better off with more thin layers than one thick one - heat is trapped between the layers. Climbers tend to wear 3 layers, I think some of you could summit Everest!

Kartush

my grandson often tells me that I am weird but cool.

About weird.... I have those napkin clips on a cute ribbon that I use both at home and coolly wear if out dining too! They say the classy way I casually pop it on wherever I am is the best!! I don't care, I always but always splodge my eats down my front so I'm not ruining my duds for the sake of fashion!! Often others diners will ask where I got them?!

Sounds about right! My younger Ds Used to rock up wearing thin threadbare tee thin jeans/joggers and looking like death warmed up. Asking me to up the heating!? Not happening, said I he declin d clothing etc but he never used to be like this as a youngster? Odd. Nowadays younger generation seems to think Lou going about ,heating on top whack, no socks very little clothing and really Inappropriately dressed for the cold?! If layering up and having basic common sense is old fashioned/eccentric, rock on sister!!😅

Good morning from USA!
It’s cold here 20F outside, no sun, thankfully no wind. As I get older, I! hate! winter! more and more - but do want snow at Holiday time. Can’t help that.

Generally, men tend to run hot compared to women, who mostly tend to be colder.

Layer up if you don’t want to run some heat, but I find that when I’m active in the house (cleaning, cooking) I wear less and don’t feel cold. It’s only when you sit around that you feel chilly.

For those who use heating pads, hot water bottles - lay them across your upper thighs. It warms you up FASTER because of the two major arteries carrying your blood throughout your body. It’s amazing!

Everyone gets “eccentric” as they age and get stuck in their routines and opinions. It’s a privilege to finally feel unhampered by what others think about you after spending a younger lifetime trying, wanting, desiring to fit in with the expectations of others.

Just do what you want, be yourself regardless of what your kids say. Funny thing though… we all grow up and eventually become mom/dad “mini-me’s” without realizing it. Just wait. You’ll see.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

I think most of us are a little eccentric in one way or the other 🙂 and so is your adult son who still calls you mummy! He’s young and eccentric! At the moment I’m wearing a thermal vest, thin cotton trousers, thin long sleeved top and a cardigan plus socks and slippers. The heating is off and I’m not cold at all. There’s no way I could wear loads of layers and have the heating on. I’d melt!

VioletSky

Eccentric is a massive compliment as far as I'm concerned

I agree, why follow the flock?!
To me this would definitely be a compliment.

I’d be quite happy if my DCs thought me eccentric!
I’m wearing a warm shirt, wool jumper, hand knitted wool socks and cord jeans, I’m comfortably warm.

Im dressed almost identical.Heating off blanket and hot water bottle.Couldnt afford to have the heating on all day.Sometimes have my gas hob on at a peep when below freezing though.

my grandson often tells me that I am weird but cool.

I feel the cold badly and our apartment inside a detached house is ice cold. We reckon because no fitted carpet. Am I eccentric? Hope so. Entrepreneurs usually are. I remember starting a business in Benidorm. Hiring baby car seats and cots to holiday makers. I was working as a speed typist at the local newspaper entitling me to free advertising. I immediately got orders from local estate agents to put together baby cots in their holiday lets. I couldn’t cope with it all as I’m hopeless at DIY and OH thought I had lost the plot. Happy to be called eccentric. It’s a compliment and I am still entrepreneurial on eBay.

Corrections in order- should have said 44F and 60F!

Just come back from a weekend away and we didn’t leave the heating on. The house was 44C. The smart meter was showing just over £1 at 3.30pm when we arrived home which was interesting because the only energy which had been used was electric powered things on standby. (Obviously the weekly display starts on Monday). Turned the heating on full at 4pm and by 10pm the house temperature was 60C but the meter was showing more than £10. Scary! 3 hot water bottles in the bed have warmed it up sufficiently.

You are dressed in a similar way to me, except I have tights under trousers as well as thick socks. When I am sitting in my chair, I have a hot water bottle. It is the middle of winter and struggling to reach freezing outside. What on earth is eccentric about this? Our generations have a lifetime of experience different weather conditions and know how to dress accordingly. I am a couple of years younger than you and we are definitely not old. Late middle age perhaps.

Eccentric to me is people who pay good money for clothes to keep them warm but then prefer to pay for heating rather than wear the clothes they've bought.

1/ Global warming
2/ Energy crisis
3/ Cost Of Living

To the OP. You are dressed perfectly. You’re completely sane. Anyone wearing summer clothes, compensating by turning up the heat/leaving on all day and wasting precious energy as a result is the bonkers one and a bad citizen to boot.

HowVeryDareYou Heating on all day is great if you can afford it. I wear 3 layers, a scarf and sometimes a coat. 15 degrees is unbearable without layered clothing. Heating all day not an option. Am still working from home, sitting at computer, so this only adds to problem.

Chestnut

Norah

For me and my cold feet, the best thing is wool socks (not cotton). If my feet and hands are warm I feel the chill less.

Another way to stay warm is burning dry wood. We have wood all over our property, cut, stack, wait for the moisture to dry out.

The best thing for cold legs and feet in the evenings is a heat pad and a couple of cushions. You will feet warm as toast while watching TV. Just look on Amazon under 'heat pads'.

Thank you.

Wool socks and slippers, the fireplaces roaring have worked thus far, but if the temperature drops I shall check that out.

I have seen during the last few days when the outside is white with frost and ice a couple of men wearing shorts outside, they are not in running or cycling gear, just bog standard shorts. Now that’s what I call eccentric. Me, I often wear my woolly hat indoors as well as all my layers and heating on but I would never wear shorts in this weather.

What's wrong with eccentricity? It's just thinking originally!

As he doesn’t live with you the temperature you keep the house has only to suit you. No one else.

I've been in and out of the house for most of the day, so my heating wasn't switched on until 4pm. It was on for two hours, but I then turned it off as I'm going out again to choir practice. Now that energy's so expensive I am heating the person, not the house. Layers of clothing, my heated throw and a hand knitted blanket over my knees keeps me cosy without the heating on, for most of the day, and I'm 83. I do turn it on if I feel cold, but I'm not using nearly as much power as I used to do.
If that's being eccentric, then it's 'money in the Bank' eccentric.

Lilyflower I have Reynaud’s and I’m lighting the woodburner at 5pm every evening. Being cold when your hands feet and nose lose the ability to move and hurt is no fun

I dont turn my heating on …as can’t afford it now! So I live in my back room with a small electric heater.I run into kitchen to make tea ….grab food….and fill hot water bottle ! Then I go to bed when it drops below 15* downstairs! Usually about 7 pm.
I didn’t think my poor husband being properly cared for in an Alzheimer’s home would cost me so much of my own comfort ….but it has ! A poster just said they have their heating on 11 hours a day! How wonderful that must be. I’ve forgotten what it feels like to walk around my home in comfort!