How would you cool off in a heat-wave with no air-conditioning in your home?

SBelle: small a/cs don't use that much electric and they are a lifesaver in hot weather, even if you only use them in one bedroom for example. After I was divorced and on a strict budget over 30 years ago we lived in a small house with a large a/c that used a lot of electricity and a small window unit in my bedroom. I moved the little TV in that bedroom so I could watch it on weekends...got my chores done early in the morning, would go get books from the library and hole up in the small bedroom after I made lunch...the rest of the house was hot but that bedroom was very comfortable. Also if you have windows that the sun shines on in the hottest part of the day you can buy those emergency camping "blankets" like they sell at Walmart, they are made of reflective Mylar and cut them to fit your windows and use Scotch tape to tape them to the windows at the corners. That will cut down on a lot of heat getting into your home. If you stretch it tight enough you can also look out the window during the daytime and watch your yard without anyone knowing you are watching it, looks like aluminum foil from the outside.

LittleCreates: I've done that, 4 showers in one day, quick ones just long enough to get wet and cool down.
Mozgoz: That's a great idea. I've also walked in the heat, near 100 F., and brought a quart Ziploc bag filled with ice cubes, used the ice to rub over my forearms and face and when it melted on my way home would drink the water...usually all melted by the time I got home (2 mile walks)

its highly unlikely that therll be a heatwave in ireland any time in the next 100 years

I have actually laid on my dogs cooling gel mat. Hey, she never uses it, so. . .

I am dealing with that right now Patti. I never have needed ac here in this house until this year. The trees and the open windows usually keep it real nice. I am thinking of buying a small ac tomorrow at Walmart to get me thru this heat wave.

@Cherokeepatti I'm currently doing this it's been so hot here Also! Box fans & open windows especially when there is a breeze lol

Patti I will have to look for the camping blankets because the side of the house that gets sun is the side I use most.It seems like me and the dog have been holed up here a lont time now and it was only the weekend and evenings but that is bad..lol

We have fans.

Change into my birthday suit :-)

Take a cool shower

CereBellum: Didn't know they had cooling gel mats for dogs...there's an idea....
Fireball: I used to soak handtowels in water and then put them in the freezer, when they were frozen I'd wipe myself down with them. And drank a lot of ice water too.
Sleeping: A kiddie pool looks good when I'm overheated walking across a parking lot to the store...
Too bad homes are no longer built to pull a good draft through them. A dog-trot type home would really be helpful, could cook in one side of the house, sit in the middle to cool down and go to sleep in the other half of the house.

(a) Fan, tray of ice in front of it, (b) teatowel regularly soaked in water, then wrapped around neck, (c) Shut all curtains, (d) Iced drinks to hand at ll times

Fernie: We had a spring-fed creek on our farm when I was a kid that we would walk to and cool off...nice and cool down there splashing in the water. I think that the water in the deepest hole was cold enough to have kept a can of milk chilled off if we didn't have a refrigerator. They only got electric the year before I was born, so I don't know what they did back then.

huh, I never thought would have thought of using a ziplock bag. that's brilliant!

Walmart O.O
😅
I'll be checking those funny pictures Belle

Swimming or cold drinks and cool clothes?

Some people call it skinny dippin, in my case chunky dunkin... And lots of beer!

Shade lemonade lots of ice and a kiddie pool

😱 Storm no...LOL
Let me see if I can find me at wallyworld...😝

AT least wear a nice bikini
Because the heat ;)

sit in front of a fan buck nekkid with a spray bottle filled with ice water...spritz yourself regularly...icy icy cold...oh, and if you want to make believe you're at the beach...try to light a cigarette

By taking bath a few times

get a baseball cap. put ice in the baseball cap. put baseball cap on your head. BEHOLD THE BRAIN FREEZE! I did this fishing today in 90 degree heat. It felt so good.

Go to the mall

Go swimming

Yes Storm the heat..😥

Open the fridge and stand in front of it....

Take a cool bath or shower then then just relax in your bath towel or your birthdays suit

High powered fans, ice water and keep applying an icy cold towel around your neck for as long as you can stand it.

Definitely get naked fans

I don't have air-conditioning, but I do have both an oscillating fan and a ceiling fan in the living room.

Go sit in the pool