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I had to dry out my boots once with a panel heater, after a passing driver decided to enliven my rainy-day walking commute by driving through an overflowing gutter and drenching me from head to toe. I wouldn't have liked to try it with a cat instead...
Use enough duct tape and a cat would be fine for this
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I discovered this on my annual backpacking trip during a particularly cold winter. I sleep in a zero degree bag in a hammock, but my bag has most of the insulation on top so my back was freezing. Next year I brought a nice thick blanket to line the hammock and I’ve always been comfortable since.
Your weight compresses most of the insulation beneath you, and the hammock itself provides less than no insulation. If you aren't, you should put the blanket on the outside of the bottom of the hammock (suspended beneath it), so it has more volume and thus insulation.
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Is there an argument against indoor cats? That is now the recommendation in the US, as far as I know.
Loose an outdoor cat in a horrible, easily preventable way, and you'll quickly become an indoor-only cat owner.
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Or in an outside enclosure. They're not very hard to install around your fence.
I will say cats are crazy escape artists. We had to confine ours after a move to make sure they didn't make a mess or escape while we reassembled our house but the room didn't have any doors so we piled up boxes and they just got better and better at escaping. This escalated to one of our cats jumping up and slamming a box off the top to make his escape.
The first time I took my cat camping it was much colder than expected. At bed time I filled a bottle with hot water and wrapped my cat up in a blanket with it. Being a cat, he immediately squirmed his way out of it and started walking around the freezing tent. I was starting to get worried until the little guy realized he could just barely squeeze into my zipped up sleeping bag. It was a big mess of fur and limbs all…
You took your cat camping?
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Presumably, high rates of investment drive up prices (since supply is somewhat constrained). High prices reduce the ability for people to purchase, so they have to rent, but then higher purchase price means the investors have to increase rent too. This means there is a lot of demand at the low end of the housing market, where houses aren't as well maintained/insulated/upgraded
Investing in housing should lead to building more housing, which will lower prices for everyone. Is the investment only used to renovate existing housing?
I was put off by the following sentence: > ... 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours - the metric commonly used by power companies ... It should say 129.65 kilowatt-hours PER YEAR. Without the time, it's like saying "a car goes at 50mph or 1000 miles". It's just nonsense.
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Presumably, high rates of investment drive up prices (since supply is somewhat constrained). High prices reduce the ability for people to purchase, so they have to rent, but then higher purchase price means the investors have to increase rent too. This means there is a lot of demand at the low end of the housing market, where houses aren't as well maintained/insulated/upgraded
Investing in housing should lead to building more housing, which will lower prices for everyone. Is the investment only used to renovate existing housing?
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Electric blankets were pretty awesome for this circumstance. Incredibly cheap to operate, extremely effective. (I always had trouble washing them properly though)
I remember having one... It had no ground wire... Thinking about it now, I'm really surprised I never got electrocuted or that it didn't catch on fire, it was really flimsy.
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Have you tried just adding more blankets. I never run heating at night because I find that even at 0c outside I can just stack up 4 blankets and still be warm.
0C? That's pretty warm. I sleep naked under a goose down duvet with the window open in an unheated bedroom even when the outside is -15 C. Now I'm on my own it does get a bit cooler than before but when there were two of us under the duvet it was plenty warm enough.