How to sleep comfortably on a hot night

[SOteric]

For our friends in areas of the country plagued by soaring temperatures, - a visit to the pages of WikiHow...

http://www.wikihow.com/Sleep-Comfortably-on-a-Hot-Night

Post your tips in reply. :hi:

[terrya]

1. I finally caved in and bought an air conditioner this weekend.

I really resisted....but I just can't do the tossing and turning and sweating thing anymore.

Ahhhhh.

[SOteric]

3. A smart investment given the likely problems of global warming.

You have to figure it's not going to miraculously start getting cooler in future summers.

[haydukelives]

4. Ditto

I bought mine a few weeks ago

[asthmaticeog]

6. Yep. I got a cheap-o window mount AC, and it was well worth it.

Luckily I have a small room, so I just turn it on low an hour before I go to bed, and the room's really comfy. Hardly even makes a dent in my electric bill, I just have to remember to turn it off when I go to work.

[terrya]

14. Same here...I paid about $120 for mine

It's a small AC...5,000 BTU's. I put it in the living room and it's cooling the whole apartment (a smallish 1 bedroom). It's been running continuously since late yesterday. I'll trun it off Wednesday...when it's supposed to only get to 80F.

My kitty also likes it a lot. :-)

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. Good for you...

Still wish I had known and been able to give you one of the ones from the house that likely got tossed.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I remember when I was single and living on the first floor on a busy

street. I was afraid to keep the windows open at night because I am a chicken shit, so I would take an ice cold shower and turn the fan directly on me.

It still sucked.

[SOteric]

5. And while we're at it, -For the kitties in your life:

Help your Cat Beat the Heat.

http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanagement101/a/heatstroke.htm

[Tyrone Slothrop]

7. Thanks for posting about cats

My roommate's cat is definitely suffering from heat exhaustion. I, in fact, thought she was dead when I came home yesterday. (She was lying on the bathroom floor, mouth open, tongue out, eyes fixed straight up...)

I'm going to forward that to him; hopefully, he'll do something about it.

[SOteric]

8. Poor kitty.

Pets are the ones I feel the worst about in this heat. They can't speak about their discomfort.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

9. I feel bad for her

It's so hot in our apartment, that I'm spending the next several nights at various friends' places. But the kitty doesn't have anywhere to go.

[Dangerously Amused]

13. Can you take the kitty with you? It may save his life.

[WCGreen]

10. Drugs.... Lot's of drugs.....

[bikebloke]

11. Down by the Dead Sea

When I worked in the Negev desert and lived in a trailer, we usually waited for winter to sleep well. Lying smack in front of a fan meant your windward side stayed cool, while the other sweltered.

[SmokingJacket]

12. It's 87 inside my house.

I was supposed to spend the day doing housework. Instead I read a mystery in front of the fan.

Hope I can survive two more hours till I get to go to work. :bounce:

[trof]

15. Sheets in the fridge.

We used to do that before a/c.
Back in the olden days.

[baldguy]

16. Naked

[Broken_Hero]

17. AC, pure and simple

last summer, it was hot as could be, and I had to bust out the old credit card for a few window units, I just couldn't take it anymore...especially at night. During the day, I can suffer, but at night, I can't stand sleeping in my own sweat, so AC is my saving grace...whoever invented the AC, I love you man!, or woman!...

[Katina]

18. if you are in a house, sleep in the basement

it's always cooler there..of course, then you have to contend with the spiders & the other creepies crawlies that live in a basement. :wow:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Soak a t-shirt in cold water, wring it out and sleep in that.

[Dukkha]

20. you can always wet the bed

[TimeChaser]

21. We've got AC, but my room somehow manages to be several degrees warmer

than the rest of the house (probably my computer and all it's other electrical friends). I just keep the room dark all day, turn the fan on my face/neck, and wear little to bed

[SOteric]

23. Now, I'm not saying a/c isn't a good idea, I've got one myself

and I use it in the hottest weather in short bursts. But I just want to ask, - y'all do realise how much they contribute to Greenhouse Gases, right?

http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/greenhouse.htm

[babylonsister]

24. If you need to use a sheet/top cover, keep your

feet/legs and as much as possible uncovered. That helps me. :hi: