Keeping Cool Without A/C

[booker81]

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Heh, I just did that and totally agree. A good sweating and a bit of breeze makes it a lot more bearable.

DH works outside and even in this weather doesn't care to sit in the house by a fan. He'd rather come home and mill about outside where the air isn't still or recirculated.

 

[Kudzu]

I would die; you can hang meat in my house all summer long.

 

[sonjab314]

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You can hang meat in my house all year long

 

[welasharon]

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Heh, I just did that and totally agree. A good sweating and a bit of breeze makes it a lot more bearable.

DH works outside and even in this weather doesn't care to sit in the house by a fan. He'd rather come home and mill about outside where the air isn't still or recirculated.

I prefer the heat as well. Air conditioning makes me lazy. If you get out early and follow the shade it isn't so bad. I also get headaches from cold air. Mostly we turn the air on long enough to cool the bedroom down before going to bed.
sharon

 

[TheBrumstead]

mom'sfolly :

The difference is your heat won't last. If I turn off the AC, in three days my house will be over 100 and remain that way for the next 4 months. Our forecast for the next four months is 98* for daytime highs and 78* for nighttime lows. At 9 pm it is still 85*. I suspect you turn on your heat all winter, I turn on my ac all summer.

We pay in summer, you pay in winter.

Oh I understand TX weather... I lived in Yoakum for a few years as a kid. Loved every second of it

Yeah, I would rather have your weather year round than -10 (without windchill) in the winter.​

 

[fuzziebutt]

We are the same way. The air conditioner came on in March, and has been running since. And hubbo keeps it cold enough to hang meat here, too. But for those that don't have A/C, he said that when his sister lived in Texas years ago, she bought a round bale of hay and put it outside a window. She would get outside every day and wet the hay down, and turn a fan on in the window in front of the hay. He said that kept the house as cool as if she had air conditioning. I don't know how I could handle the mold smell, but cool is cool!

 

[farmerlor]

We don't have AC. We're at 6800 feet in Colorado and there MIGHT be four or five days when the nights get so hot that it's difficult to sleep but after the sun's been down for awhile it cools off even on those days. We too leave our heavy insulated curtains closed during the day, fans run, lots of grilling out and eating cold dinner salads, and playtime in the pool.
I don't really pay in the winter either as I'm a heat nazi and my furnace doesn't switch on until the inside temp gets to 58 during the day and 53 at night. We walk around in sweats and use throw blankies all winter.

 

[WIChookchick]

In the days of the Greeks and Romans.. they would soak a terra cotta pot in water and fill it with water and place them near open windows and doors so that as the wind came through and heat, the water would evaporate AND cool the surrounding air.
We use the open windows and fans, and strategic use of pans of water and opening and shutting certain windows as the shade moves and wind moves...
But with the heat index over a 103, we have dogs and small pets... so I got out an old AC a friend gave us and put it in and turned it on this afternoon. But as soon as the sun started to set the AC went off, and the windows came open!!

When I lived in NV, we didn't have AC but its a dry heat so didn't have the humidity that we have here in WI.
But then when I lived in CA, we didn't even have AC just a few fans.

Have a good night, and stay cool

 

[itsy]

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That actually made me laugh out loud!

I try to deal with warmer weather in the summer - but it's harder for others do deal with me! I get very cranky if it's too hot inside!

 

[sheaviance1]

Once it gets to the nineties, our A/C goes in the window. Hubby hates being hot! Before that, I open the front and back door at night and put the fans in front of the door to pull the cooler air in (window works good too if you are worried about intruders). Then, I get up early and close everything up. I have some black out curtains that keep the heat out really well that helps a tremendous amount. It sounds silly, but unplugging appliances helps too, especially things that aren't being used, like cell phone charges, etc.