Today – How to keep warm in Autumn
How to keep warm in Autumn – top tips
When your kids start to whine that it’s getting cold, rather than reaching for the heating, try these simply warming tips first and teach your h whole family how to keep warm in Autumn
Here are my ten simple ways to keep warm this Autumn.
How to keep warm and cosy this Autumn
- Never underestimate the power of a simple vest and layering with thin clothes will keep you warmer than one big jumper
- Cosy slippers help a lot!
- A walk or a scoot outside will make inside feel toasty and a dance around the kitchen will soon warm them up!
- Hot dinners like beans and soup and porridge for breakfast all work a treat.
- Spread rugs over wooden floors
- You could even make a snake draught excluder from old tights and googly eyes!
- Cuddles and stories under a blanket are just lovely for keeping warm
- Open blinds on south facing windows during the day to let in the sun and close blinds at night and curtains to keep in the warmth
- Get out those gloves and hats they make loads of difference
- Fill all the gaps around your windows and doors
According to the Telegraph
‘….the single most cost-effective thing you can do to keep warm and cut fuel bills …is to draught-proof your windows and external doors. Ten quid’s worth of self-adhesive draught stripping will pay for itself in a couple of weeks. Feel for draughts with the back of your hand, and if you’ve got a particularly wide gap, (e.g. at the corner of a warped window) stick one piece of draught strip on top of another until you’ve filled it
I found this Draught Excluder tape at Amazon for just over £5 – one of lots of great ways how to keep warm in autumn
Hope you are keeping cosy!
Further reading on how to keep warm in Autumn
I do hope you have enjoyed this post on how to keep warm and cosy this autumn without putting the heating on – it could save you a great deal of money so it is really well worth learning these tips
You might also like my post on ways to cosy up your home
Another brilliant post! With the rise in fuel bills, this is all wise advice, thank you
Great advice! We have the beds piled with loads of quilts and blankets and take hot water bottles to bed in the winter!
Brilliant ideas – I’ve added this post in to my top ten preparations for Winter as a link as it goes perfect with it. Hope that’s OK x x
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Great tip these nothing like a hottie!
Hadn’t seen this when I posted on the other thread Becky….. we love hot water bottles and wheat bags in the microwave. Trying not to turn on the heating until November….. doing well so far 😉
Yes I agree. Layering is the best. Don’t wear cotton socks or clothes against your skin they will make you even more cold. I wear wool or man made material which insulate better.
I sit with a blanket over me at night time while I sit on the sofa. I am a naturally cold person, so it helps with the heating too as I am always nice and snuggly 🙂
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Great tips and such a fantastic way to save money for the family! We haven’t got the heating on yet.. and I am trying to avoid it a little longer!
Our heating is knackered old storage heaters so we are chilly even when it is on- however we having lived here a while we know how do deal with it, layering and a big hoards of blankets on the back of all the chairs for when we need them!
I love posts like these that are good for the environment and keep costs down! I grew up in a 16th century pub that didn’t have central heating. We had two open fires downstairs and a gas fire upstairs and that was it. I don’t remember being cold… I hate too much central heating nowadays, perhaps that’s why! 😀
Fantastic tips. You know we were thinking of replacing our front door and you have made me decide to definitely go ahead and do it.
Love these tips Becky – I’m a huge fan of the furry slipper boots!
Totally with you on this – jumpers out – fluffy socks on and damn the heating! (although maybe put it on for a little bit while I’m in the bath!)
I love this time of year as I get to snuggle under a cosy blanket on the sofa
very timely as feel the nip in the air this week.
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