Frugal Tips to keep you warm this Winter

[Richard]

Go for it !

[Knikitta]

Tin foil behind your radiators!

Just take some thick cardboard and cover it in tin foil, then slide the board behind your radiators, lower the thermostat and you might be surprised at the difference in your bill!

[madmum]

Tick

[ChrisG]

I put this in the other thread on Winter but to have all the tips in one place is a good idea, so reposting it here:

Line your curtains with cheap fleece blankets (variety of colours available) and either sew them to the curtain or attach with safety pins so they can be easily removed next Spring.

[HedgeHugger]

Get yourself some thermal under-layers.

[Orfy]

Leave your coat on a little longer when you get in. Go to bed a little earlier.

Prep everything you need in the morning the night before. Get up have a shower go out.

I reckon you can save an hour or so heating costs per day.

Get a fire pit and sit out side on dry evenings.

[perchy]

if I get a little chilly when sat reading, computing etc, I warm my lavendar wheat bag in the microwave, it is rectangle rather than square, I put it on the back of my nexk, and it is surprising how much warmer you feel very quickly, and the heat lasts for some time

[ChrisG]

Fingerless gloves/mitts.

Sleeping bag/fleecy blankets to snuggle into when sitting in front of the TV/computer in the evenings.

[tiameg]

Don't have three dogs who want to go in again, out again, in again all darn day - then your house will keep the heat in! Really, I've never solved this one....

[Oheckitseck]

Don't have three dogs who want to go in again, out again, in again all darn day - then your house will keep the heat in! Really, I've never solved this one....

It's not our dog that's the problem ....it's the Blooming cats who want every door and window in the house open !!!!
Frugal doesn't come into it in our house, Annie's Mum ( who is 94) lives with us and she ALWAYS thinks its cold. So even in mid December Annie and I are to be found in T -shirts still sweating buckets in the tropical spot that is our lounge.

Or hows about to save money on your heating bills.........go into work and let them pay for heating you

[lancashire lass]

Or hows about to save money on your heating bills.........go into work and let them pay for heating you

In the 1980s when I worked in a public library, that's exactly what a lot of people, especially pensioners, used to do. They'd camp down in the Reference Libary and read the newspapers etc - just to be somewhere warm and save on heating at home.

My tip: I hang a curtain over the front door and one over the back door as these are where there may be draughts (like the key hole, letter flap or cat flap), but I also have a curtain over the middle wall door so that it acts like a barrier between the warmer living room and the cooler dining room/kitchen, but isn't closed like a door so the dog can come and go between rooms without having all the doors open and meanwhile the living room stays nice and warm

[baileysgnasha]

I do the curtain trick at the front and back door too, Also when its really drafty I roll towels up to place under the lounge doors, If I feel suddenly nippy I do abit of exercise to warm my blood up and then sit back down usually by then Im in hot sweat.

[fabindia]

Fly south?

Half serious, Mrs Fab and I would like to spend half the year abroad when we retire. Just need to work out where and how to finance it (has to be somewhere a lot cheaper than UK and EU).

[p.penn]

If you have a bus pass, spend the days on a bus.

[Maggie1]

When we lived in UK we always used to go to Malta in April. There were people there that go there every year for 3 months. They found it was cheaper with not having hefty electric and gas bills plus their food bill it worked out cheaper than living in UK.