We had wool quilts on our beds when I was growing up. The water would freeze, the pipes would burst, but we were always warm as toast until we had to get out of bed. No one left the heat on at night. It wasn't needed because we were warm in bed under the wool quilts.When we got up we put on wool clothes. Our home was heated with 2 floor furnaces and only the areas close to the furnaces stayed warm. If the economy gets worse lots of us may have to go back to no heat at night, wool quilts, wool clothes, keeping our houses about 55 degrees to cut back on expenses. Life used to be a lot cheaper in the 30's and 40's. Also no AC in the summer. Sounds terrible to me now.
Last edited by TanyaL; 03-05-2012 at 10:21 PM.