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My Goodness! This feels so good.

CLEM — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:43:38 GMT

I live in an apartment in Philadelphia and it's pretty cold today. Well, I got up this morning and started working around the place, took a shower, had lunch, etc. All of a sudden I felt cold and wondered why. Well, I had never turned my heater on all day. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Just turned it on and it sure feels good.

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Goldengate8361 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:45:06 GMT

You had to turn it “on”? What was it doing off to begin with?

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chrystaltree — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:47:15 GMT

I assume you mean a small heater that just supplements your main heating. I can't believe anyone would turn of their main heat in the arctic cold we've been having.

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SharkE — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:55:25 GMT

I liked the subject line

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 00:59:22 GMT

@SharkE First I read the post.....somehow I thought it might be you. Ha! Then I looked to see....yepper it's @SharkE

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I am still oxox — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:03:26 GMT

My heat has been on for the last two weeks, there are Winters that we turn it on 10 times, but the cold has been brutal around here

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CLEM — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:27:29 GMT

We have heating units that are inset below the window in every room. It functions as an airconditioner in summer and a heater in winter. I have seen these in hotels. They are easy to control and heat up or cool the room in no time.

In summer it's always on but I don't need the heat on all the time; hence I forgot.

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drizzellla — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:28:33 GMT

My husband was walking the dog about 6AM this morning. He said every house had the furnace going. It is 7 degrees right now ( I live right outside Philadelphia).

Stay warm, Clem.

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Highlands72 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:43:12 GMT

When we were first married, my husband and I rented a second-floor apartment in a four-unit building.

We never turned our own heat on the whole two years we lived there; the tenants on the first floor ended up with the heating bills, as the heat from the first floor "rose" enough to heat our unit.

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SharkE — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:45:06 GMT

you lived in Florida or Mexico ?

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LUVNLIFE — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 02:48:07 GMT

It may also depend on if your apt. is between other apts. keeping your walls warmer.

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Harpa — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:39:43 GMT

You'll soon be turning it off again, as we are predicted to get 40 degree weather later this week! Won't that feel tropical from what we've been having!?

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chrystaltree — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:11:56 GMT

She must live in in FL...

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chrystaltree — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:15:34 GMT

@luvnlife wrote:
It may also depend on if your apt. is between other apts. keeping your walls warmer.

Not when it's this cold. If you live in an apartment, you know that you have to keep your heat on in the winter to keep the pipes between floors from freezing. You'd keep your heat on 65 even if you are going on vacation because you wouldn't want to come home to flood.

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CLEM — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:12:07 GMT

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CLEM — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:15:48 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
She must live in in FL...

No, I live in Pennsylvania and it was really cold. I live in a high rise and my apartment is somewhere in the middle and facing south. Generally, I don't need much heat and I never turn the heat on in the bedroom.

But yesterday was very cold and I just forgot.

No pipes have been broken.

I know this all sounds stupid and it is. But today I am nice and warm and cozy.

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jlkz — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:40:56 GMT

@CLEM

In the early 1970's we lived in Bryn Mawr, PA while DH was in law school. The apartment building had 5 floors and was old construction.

We lived in the center of the third floor and had to keep our shoes on in the winter because the hear below us kept our carpet very hot. Too, we kept the storm door to the little balcony slightly ajar: way too hot in the winter.

Wonder if it still is like that now....?

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jlkz — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:42:06 GMT

@CLEM

In the early 1970's we lived in Bryn Mawr, PA while DH was in law school. The apartment building had 5 floors and was old construction.

We lived in the center of the third floor and had to keep our shoes on in the winter because the heat below us kept our carpet very hot. Too, we kept the storm door to the little balcony slightly ajar: way too hot in the winter.

Wonder if it still is like that now....?

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fortune — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:48:51 GMT

These nights have certainly been at least 2-dog nights!

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CLEM — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:57:54 GMT

@jlkz That apartment where you lived in Bryn Mawr sure sounds as if it has been uncomfortable. I have not heard anything that extreme before and I sure hope all the old placed have been updated and made more comfortable. But I don't know. You never know with places that rent to students.

Where did your husband go to law school? Have you been back since those days?