Put on more clothes.
As soon as the cold weather starts, I wear long underwear. Yeah, go ahead and call me an old man … but no one ever sees me expect my wife who constantly complains about it being cold in the house. I tell her to put in more clothes but she says she doesn’t want to be an old woman. I keep telling her that I don’t care … as long as you’re warm.
And it always confuses me when people make fun of others wearing long underway … unless someone tells you, you don’t notice.
I’ve been outside in minus 30 degree weather and people around me shivering and asking me how I can stand the cold. I tell them I’m wearing long underwear and they laugh at me.
And the thing is … you can’t tell if someone is wearing long underwear … it’s completely unnoticeable.
You also have to consider barometric pressure and humidity. I find even moderate humidity in winter time combined with low pressure makes it feel miserable, damp and cool … even with a moderate temperature.
20 C in the summer is fine because its moderate humidity, moderate pressure and everything is in equilibrium.
But 20 C in the winter inside a house with a bit high humidity, low pressure makes it feel like the cold is seeping past your skin and into your bones. So the way most people deal with it is to raise the temperature … but it seldom cures the feeling because temperature / humidity / barometric pressure are still not in equilibrium.
The way my family used to deal with it was to turn the house into a literal sauna and raise the temperature to 30 C … I’m Indigenous and this was normal life for me but my wife is non-Indigenous and she gets upset with me if it gets too warm in the house at winter time. I remember camping in the winter time with my dad for hunting / trapping trips in the dead of winter. He’d put on a fire and raise the temperature of the tent or hunt camp up to 40 C or more! I remember one night finding a crack in the wall of a hunt cabin to breathe in cool air because it was so freakin hot inside.